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Lot 329

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 - 400
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[AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.).] A group of 22 works by or relating to Aesop, including:


HERFORD, Oliver (1863-1935). The Herford Aesop: Fifty Tables in Verse. Boston: LeRoy Philips Publishers, and Ginn and Company, 1921. 12 mo. Numerous illustrations by the author. Publisher’s original red cloth, original dustjacket. Provenance: William Edgar Fisher (bookplate). -- Aesop’s Fables. London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1927. Large 8vo. 8 color plates and numerous other illustrations by Nora Fry (1897-1985). Publisher’s original pictorial bords, dust jacket. Provenance: Molly (Early ownership inscription, “To Molly from Auntie and Uncle at Cambridge.” -- Aesop’s Fables. New York: Viking Press, 1933. 8vo. Numerous wood engravings by Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965). Publisher’s original red cloth. -- GATTI, Anne. Aesop’s Fables. San Diego, New York, London: Gulliver Books, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Square 8vo. Many color illustrations by Safaya Salter. Publisher’s original boards, dust jacket. -- And 18 more. -- Condition generally good. -- Complete list available upon request.


Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch

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