Click for full-size.
An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land (Inscribed by the Illustrator)
by Cooper, Frederic Taber (Selected and Edited by)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. First trade edition. Hardcover. Good. Paul Bransom. SIGNED. 485pp. Quarto [28 cm] Black cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and a gilt and orange ink stamped monkey vignette on the front cover. Illustrated endsheets. Twenty-four charming tipped-in illustrations (all present). Ex-library, with a single library plate on the front pastedown. Hinges weak. Frontispiece tissue guard torn, with loss to the bottom edge. All the tipped-in plates are present. Shipments outside of the United States may require extra postage due to weight. With Twenty-four Illustrations in Color by Paul Bransom. Paul Bransom worked as an illustrator for the New Dodd-Mead Encyclopedia and The New York Evening Journal. However, it was The Saturday Evening Post's purchase of four paintings for their cover which launched his career as a wildlife illustrator.
This copy is inscribed by Paul Bransom on the Publisher's Acknowledgment page: "I am proud and happy to / sign this book for / Weber State College, / Special Collections. / Sincerely, / Paul Bransom / June 3rd 1974.
This copy is inscribed by Paul Bransom on the Publisher's Acknowledgment page: "I am proud and happy to / sign this book for / Weber State College, / Special Collections. / Sincerely, / Paul Bransom / June 3rd 1974.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Seller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 64677
- Title
- An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable Literature of Every Age and Land (Inscribed by the Illustrator)
- Author
- Cooper, Frederic Taber (Selected and Edited by)
- Illustrator
- Paul Bransom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First trade edition
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- fables; Paul Bransom; Frederic Taber Cooper
Terms of Sale
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Please note: We cannot guarantee delivery by Christmas via USPS Media Mail. Please reach out to us directly via phone or email if you are ordering a Christmas gift with time sensitive delivery so that we can make sure your package arrives on time.
All items subject to prior sale. Orders filled upon payment. We accept check, money order, PayPal (books@kensandersbooks.com), and credit card (Visa/MC/AmEx/Discover). Billing terms will be arranged for institutions according to their needs, and for customers who have established credit with our company. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described, autographed items are guaranteed indefinitely. Items may be returned for a full refund within ten days of receipt, prior notification requested.
About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
Collecting History of the Circus in America
Step right up! Take a look at the center ring, where you will see displayed the most amazing, most colorful series of history books that the world has ever seen! Right this way, folks…
Collecting Banned & Challenged Books
Build a revolutionary library of literature that has been challenged or even outright banned. You’ll be surprised by some of the titles in this gallery!
