AESOP'S FABLES: THE FABLES OF AESOP
by Aesop
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
W.B. Conkey Company - Young People's Cloth Library Light blue hardcover cloth binding with red, yellow and green illustration of heron eating a frog clean square and tight. Only a bit age-faded and light shelfwear. Minor crack at title page, binding secure. Yellowing pages. 75 illustrations includes color frontispiece, rest b/w sketches. 188 pages plus ads in back. Book measures 5" x 6.3/4". Illus. by Illustrarted. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
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
- Deja Vu Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012462
- Title
- AESOP'S FABLES: THE FABLES OF AESOP
- Author
- Aesop
- Illustrator
- Illustrarted
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W.B. Conkey Company - Young People's Cloth Library
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens - All;
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Deja Vu Books
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Deja Vu Books
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Poplar Grove, Illinois
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...