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Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company. VG. 1929. Reissue. Hardcover. Reprint edition, undated but circa 1929. 7 1/4" x 9 3/4" hardcover bou nd in maroon cloth with a color pictorial pastedown label on the front board. Very Good condition. Rubs/frays to the corners. Small bumps to the upper corners. Fraying to the head and base of the spine. Some du st spotting to the edges of the upper page block. Tanning to the endpa pers and light tanning to the page margins. Illustrated with eight col or plates, including the cover plate, and many black & white illustrat ions by Nora Fry. .
Synopsis
Aesop, known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was a slave in the mid-sixth century BC in Greece. He is assumed to have written many of these curious moral parables, and they have been added to and translated into many languages since they were first collected.
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- Bookseller
- Dearly Departed Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72761
- Title
- Aesop's Fables
- Author
- Aesop
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reissue
- Publisher
- David McKay Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- ND
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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