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Sale 309: Children's & Illustrated Books: The Library of Noreen Curry, Part II (#309) 05/19/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 05/19/2005 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #5 12 Fables of Aesop

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Title:

12 Fables of Aesop

Author:

Æsop

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

The Museum of Modern Art

Date Published:

[1954]

Description:

Newly narrated by Glenway Wescott. Illustrated with linoleum blocks by Antonio Frasconi. 10½x7½, cloth-backed patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 308 of 1000 copies printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press.

Signed in the colophon by Antonio Frasconi, Glenway Wescott, and Joseph Blumenthal; additional inscription in a fourth hand, "for all the Igleharts from the Biemillers for the Ann Arbor shelves."

Condition:

Wear and tape repairs to slipcase; slight fading to spine, corners a little rubbed, very good or better in good slipcase.

Item#:

156219
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