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New York: Harmony Books, 1982 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION (with code "10 . . . 3 2 1" and statement "First Edition" on the title verso). ||| Collation: 183 x 123 mm. Pp. [vii], 227. Binding: Black boards (manuscript price on the upper free endpaper), dust-jacket (short tear). Reference: ISBN 05175488747. .

Hamburg: Romanisches Seminar der Universitaet Hamburg, 1982     ¶ A critical edition of Julien Macho's fifteenth-century version of Aesop in Middle French; based on the first complete edition, Lyon: Mathias Huss, 9 April 1486 (GW 370). Hecker's introduction discusses Steinhöwel's Aesop and its diffusion, early printing in Lyon, Julien Macho as editor and translator, the French Aesop and its editions, the woodcuts and their model, the history of the text, and Macho and his translation of Aesop, with a bibliography of 152 primary and secondary works. Index of fables, pages 284-88. Dissertation (PhD), Universität Hamburg, 1982. (Series: Hamburger Romanistische Dissertationen, 20.)   ||| Collation: 210 x 147 mm: Pp. cxiii, 288, [1]. Photo-offset from typescript original. Facsimiles.  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Condition: Very good, lower wrapper slightly stained.   ||| For further details please contact Jay… Read More

Auckland, 1982 *** ONLY EDITION THUS; COMPRISING SIX FABLES IN SAMOAN PROSE. This edition appeared simultaneously with an edition of the same fables translated into Niuean (another Polynesian language) by Aiao Kaulima (b. 1935) and similarly illustrated by McNee. Aesop's animals, of course, were unknown in Samoa before the eighteenth century; and so many of their names here are transparently European, eg, 'asini 'donkey', rane 'frog', manuki 'monkey', mole 'mole', pusi 'cat', luko 'wolf'. -- Out of print, and already VERY SCARCE. -- Cover title: Tala mai nu'u mamao = Stories from faraway places. -- Reference: OCLC 23008181.. Pictorial wrappers, wire-stitc. 3 volumes (209 x 147 mm): Pp 1-16, 1-16, 1-16. .

Venice: S. Ghazar, 1931 *** The Vita Aesopi and 308 fables in West Armenian prose and verse, translated from the French by Minas Bzhshkean (1777-1851). Previous editions appeared in 1818, 1827, 1849, 1860, and 1886: All editions are VERY SCARCE. -- References: LCCN 97956594; OCLC 47243712 (LC only). . Contemporary half black cloth,. 182 x 121 mm: Pp [1-4], [i-ii], [5] 6-431 [432]. F.

Peterhead (Aberdeenshire): Aulton Press, 1987 *** ONLY EDITION IN MODERN SCOTS; COMPRISING TWENTY-SIX FABLES IN NORTHEAST-DIALECT VERSE, with a preface by Billy Kay and a Scots-English glossary. Wheaton's illustrations are quite delightful: Several of them show frogs in kilts or playing the bagpipes, a tortoise in a tam-o'-shanter, &c; another incorporates the aurora borealis. The poet Robert Strachan Stephen (b. 1949) afterwards published By the shores o' Galilee: Stories from the Gospels in Scots verse (1989); In the beginning: Stories from the Old Testament in Scots verse (1991), and Troll tales (1999). The Aulton Press is apparently his private imprint; and this is its first book. *** Out of print, and already quite SCARCE. Only two other copies are known in America. -- References: CAIRNS; Carlson; COPAC; OCLC 16472225. . First edition.. Publisher's glazed pictorial b. 280 x 210 mm: Pp [i-viii], 1-86 [87-88]. Eight col.

New York: Swann Galleries, Inc, 2003     ¶ Only edition of this essential catalogue, largely written by Gregg Linebaugh and Richard Austin; complete with the errata-slip. Two hundred fifty lots were sold, totalling $714,080: These included the LM data card book that Armstrong and Aldrin had used to make their epochal moon-landing in 1969, sold for $222,500 to Lowentheil.   ||| Collation: 241 x 165 mm: Seventy leaves, paginated [1-140] (ie, not paginated). Errata-slip and price-list laid in.  Illustration: Forty-nine color halftone illustrations, about 280 black-and-white halftones.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous. .

St Petersburg: izdatel'stvo "Nauka", leningradskoe otdelenie, 1968 ¶ ONLY EDITION. ||| Collation: In 8s (215 x 170 mm): Pp. 156. Facsimiles, tables. Binding: Publisher's white cloth. Provenance: New York Public Library (stamps, release-stamps). Condition: A very good copy..

Terre Haute (Indiana), 1977 ¶ Semiannual. Very scarce in the market. ||| Collation: 280 x 216 mm irregular. Together three numbers comprising 54 leaves altogether, paginated [1-6], [7-10], and [1-6]. Binding: Self-wrappers. References: LCCN sv 89041287; OCLC 13639946. .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, inc, 1969 -- First printing (with code "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9" on the title verso). Numerous illustrations and facsimiles.. First Edition. Gray cloth, dust-jacket. Near fine./Sunned at the spine. In 16s (265 x 234 mm). Pp. ix, 358.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1968 -- ONLY EDITION. Portrait, facsimile, views.. Red cloth, blank dust-jacket. Near fine.. In 6s (233 x 153 mm). Pp. xlv, 429.

¶ ÉDITION ORIGINALE, et la seule séparée; EXEMPLAIRE NOMINATIF pour Béatrice Leval, qui était une cliente importante de l’éditeur en 1939 et 1944–46; avec la carte gravée de son directeur Raymond Nasenta, qui « prie Madame Fernand Leval de bien vouloir accepter cet exemplaire de ‘La Traversée de Paris’ imprimé spécialement à votre intention, en hommages respectueux de l’éditeur ».   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and still the only separate edition; completed on Bastille Day 1946. This is an unnumbered exemplaire nominatif printed specially for Beatrice Leval of New York, who was buying some fairly serious pictures at the time — notably Vuillard La table, la fin du déjeuner chez Madame Vuillard ca 1895, which brought $2.48 million at auction last year.   ||| Series: Le vin de Paris, 2.  Collation: In 4s (330 × 255 mm irregular): Fifty-two leaves, paginated [1–6] 7–98 [99–104], including the last leaf (pages [103–104]) blank and genuine. Title printed in red and black, Charpentier’s device on title printed in red,… Read More