Fables of Aesop According to Roger L'Estrange by CALDER, Alexander (artist); AESOP - 1931

Dover Publications, 1967. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A Very Good copy. Book has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corners, soiling to edges of text block, toning to pages and covers, and a reading curl to covers. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.

Dover, 1967. Paperback. Good.

Dover Publications, 1967,. 1967. Soft cover. 0486217809 paperback, 4to, 128pp, b/w illustrations, clean and sound, no inscriptions, corners slightly rubbed, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0486217809 .

The First printing published by Harrison of Paris. Minton, Balch and Company, New York, 1931. Number '33' of only 615 copies printed on Auvergne hand-made paper, of which twenty copies were not for sale. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. The boards are clean. Free from inscriptions and erasures. Light toning to the text-block and the extreme page edges. Many pages remain uncut. The Wrapper is complete and is toned to the edges with a little light spotting in places. The original inner chemise is present and is in Very Good- condition with rubbing to the folds and a small clear tape repair to the upper spine. The printed label to the spine of the chemise is present but rubbed. This copy is missing the original paper knife and slipcase. The book is now housed in a custom cloth slipcase. The fifth publication of Harrison of Paris with 50 striking line drawing illustrations by Alexander Calder. Increasingly scarce to find in collectible condition. More images available on request. Ashton… Read More

Paris: Harrison of Paris,, [1931]. In the original slipcase, with the elusive paper-knife First Calder edition, limited issue, number 262 of 595 copies on Auvergne paper from a total edition of 665, scarce retaining both the slipcase and the paper-knife. The text of the present edition is based Roger L'Estrange's ground-breaking translation of Aesop's Fables (1692). Harrison of Paris was founded by publisher and heiress Barbara Harrison Wescott (1904-1977) and art patron and curator Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988) in 1930. Wheeler designed this book, the pale blue covers of which were made from schoolchildren's aprons (Becker, p. 62). The illustrator, Alexander Calder, came from a long line of sculptors, and first took up printmaking after moving to Paris in 1926, where he befriended Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian. Quarto. Original light blue paper-covered boards, front cover lettered in dark blue with Calder illustration, edges untrimmed, endleaves uncut. With the original… Read More

1931. CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp., illustrated with 50 line-block reproductions after pen-and-ink drawings by Calder. 4to, 255 x 195 mm., bound in publisher's over boards, in the original cardboard slipcase, in a new half morocco folding box. Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1931. The publisher's copy of the deluxe issue of Calder's most significant book, illustrated with figures from Aesop constructed in the same style as his imaginary Circus figures and in his wire portraits and statues that dominated his creative output during the 1930s. This copy has an original signed Calder drawing for "The fox and the grapes", one of the more elaborate images in the book. The deluxe issue is especially sought after, being exquisitely printed on Spanish handmade paper incorporating coloured silk-threads. The Calder drawings for Aesop are creative and playful, marking this as a major example of modern book illustration. This… Read More