Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange. With Fifty Drawings By Alexander Calder by AESOP. [Sir Roger L'Estrange] - 1931

Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1931. No. 159 of 595 copies (of a total edition of 665 copies), printed on Auvergne hand-made watermarked paper, and designed by Monroe Wheeler. Pp. [v], 124, [3]. Pen-and-ink line drawings by Alexander Calder. Loosely inserted is the elusive Paper Knife with vignette by Calder. Pasteboards with blue illustrated wrapper, top edge rough trimmed, others deckled, housed in a red laminate chemise with paper spine label, all inserted into a fresh, hand-crafted, blue cloth, 100% acid free clamshell box as indicated on the small label adhered to the lower corner inside the box, paper spine label. Wrapper spotted, with light spotting to the endpapers, nicks to the tips, 1 cm closed tear at lower front joint, previous owner's engraved bookplate loosely inserted, else interior clean and crisp. Tip missing from paper knife. Chemise rubbed, small tears to the joints at spine ends. Clamshell box fine and solid.. Limited, First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus.. Small Quarto.