The Fables of Aesop in Words of One Syllable
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned and heavily chipped and missing sections at spine, owner initials written on front
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned and heavily chipped and missing sections at spine, owner initials written on front jacket panel, owner name and address on front free endpaper. 1900. Hardcover. Halfbound gray cloth with chromolithograph illustrated paper-covered boards. Front cover illustration shows rabbit watching frogs jump into a pond surrounded by carnations and violets. Elegant black and white illustrations throughout, some signed with initials RH. First title in the Altemus Illustrated One Syllable Series. Scarce in jacket. Color illustrated jacket. ; Altemus' Illustrated One Syllable Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 128 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50957
- Title
- The Fables of Aesop in Words of One Syllable
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned and heavily chipped and missing sections at spine, owner initials written on front
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Henry Altemus Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1900
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Decorative Bindings, Aesop's Fables
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...