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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop; Introduction by G.K. Chesterton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517171988
- ISBN 13
- 9780517171981
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Avenel Books, New York, 1992. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Arthur Rackham. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 222 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Dust jacket protected by Brodart cover.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. This is a facsimile edition of the 1912 edition and is illustrated by Arthur Rackham and includes many colour plates. Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales associated with him are characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. His existence is still debated but what is fact is that the fables credited to him are dated from around 600 BC and those originated in ancient Greece. Illustrator: Arthur Rackham. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; Turkey; Ancient (BC); Children. ISBN: 0517171988. ISBN/EAN: 9780517171981. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9555. . 9780517171981
Synopsis
Aesop, known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was a slave in the mid-sixth century BC in Greece. He is assumed to have written many of these curious moral parables, and they have been added to and translated into many languages since they were first collected.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9555
- Title
- Aesop's Fables
- Author
- Aesop; Introduction by G.K. Chesterton
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517171988
- ISBN 13
- 9780517171981
- Publisher
- Avenel Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BZDB137 aesop, fables, greek, ancient, stories, myths, Myths, Legends & Folklore; Turkey; Ancient (BC); Children. Arthur Rackham ISBN: 0517171988 EAN: 9780517171981 Aesop; Introduction by G.K. Chesterton Aesop's Fables
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