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Aesop & Company: With Scenes from His Legendary Life
by BADER, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0395505976
- ISBN 13
- 9780395505977
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur Geisert. Small 4to. Lavender cloth spine with gilt lettering and lavender paper over boards with gilt decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 64pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this retelling of the ancient Greek fables, illustrated with Geisert's delightful engravings. Boldly signed and inscribed by him in black ballpoint on title page: "To Bud & Joan / Arthur Geisert / XI/II/MCMXCI."
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43967
- Title
- Aesop & Company: With Scenes from His Legendary Life
- Author
- BADER, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395505976
- ISBN 13
- 9780395505977
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Children's; Art;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.
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