The Turtle and the Two Ducks.
Crowell, 1981, 1st printing; 10.2x8.7,np. Picture Book hardback. A collection of simply told, illustrated "Animal Fables retold from La Fontaine."
Crowell, 1981, 1st printing; 10.2x8.7,np. Picture Book hardback. A collection of simply told, illustrated "Animal Fables retold from La Fontaine."
Paris, Jules Tallandier, 75, rue Dareau, December 1, 1906, 1st thus illustrated from the classic text of MM. Berlin Frères; the first of two volumes, red cloth spine, ivory boards with a list in small print of the fables in this volume and coloured pictures from the Fox and the.....
NY: Watts, 1967/1964, 4th Am. 8.7x11.2, c.30 pp. Picture Book hardback. A version of this tale which explodes with colour, with a few lines of text on each page.
Rutgers University Press, 1970/1961, 2nd. Reference biography, hardback. .
Boston: Small, Maynard, & Company, 1922; plain blue boards with gold titles, frontis + 7 coloured plates by "D" dated 1910; 7x9.5"; vi + 133 pp. Juvenile hardback. About 100 tales with quite nice plates in the style of Hope Dunlap which are not ascribed.
Paris, impr. Hemmerlé, Petit et Cie ; Ernest Flammarion, éditeur, 26, rue Racine, 1926. (21 février 1927.) In-8, 122 pp. (/BNF) 1st printing thus illustrated; cover with La Fontaine sitting on a stone bench by the shore surrounded by animals. French language hardback. medium. Thirty-nine fables with lively black and.....
Paris: E. Plon Nourrit et Cie, Imprimeurs Editeurs,Rue Garancière 10; nd (circa early 1900s) ; calico cloth with white and blue flowers, stamped black titles and a spray of gilt cornflowers , with brown silk ties, edges red all around, oblong 10.5x9; 48 pp. French language hardback oblong. Each fable.....
Paris: Garnier Frères, 1868, green cloth boards and leather spine with 5 raised bands and gilt ornamentation, all edges gilt, all pages with ruled borders, 10.75 x 7"; 667 pp. French language 19thc hardback juvenile. The superb drawings are very clean and distinct, a copy worth preserving.
Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995, 2nd printing in year of publication, with revisions and corrections; red softcover with Chagall's Le Lion Devenu Vieux on yellow ground; covers with red endpapers, not flat cut; 6.5x9.25"; 144 pp. French language softcover. medium. Prepared to accompany a travelling exhibition.....
Grosset & Dunlap, (1947). 8.9x12; c 30 pp. Picture Book hardback. Beautiful lithographs in a Grosset original.
Grosset & Dunlap, (1957), early printing; translated from the French by Marie Ponsot; green cloth backed patterned paper boards, 8.9x12; c 30 pp. Picture Book hardback. Beautiful lithographs in a Grosset original.
New York: Oxford University Press, American branch, 1928, 1st printing. Green cloth with white title plates, small 8vo; 78 pp, some uncut. Juvenile hardback. Translations, without illustration, into English rhyming verse of many of the Fables.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884, 1st printing American thus, Limited Edition #125/250; white quarter vellum with three gilt animal vignettes, green cloth with stamped gilt birds lifting turtle above brown landscape; 8x10.75"; frontis plus 24 fine steel cut plates with tissue guards, vii + 304 pp. includes Preface, Life of La.....
Paris: La Bonne Compagnie, 1946, limited edition 1576 of 3500 rebound in half leather, brown calf with nine bands in a contemporary design, brown marbled paper boards, brown marbled endpapers (smaller pattern) gilt titles, top edge gilt, ribbons, spine of original softcover bound in volume two, two full page watercolours.....
New York: Watts, 1967/1964, 4th Am; 8.7x11.2, c.30 pp. Picture Book hardback. A version of this tale which explodes with colour, with a few lines of text on each page.