NY: Hodder & Stoughton; (no date). First Edition . Hardcover. Original edition, illustrated by Edward Detmold, but no copyright date. Green cloth with black illustration on front board and gilt lettering on spine and front board. Very good lacking a dust jacket. Front hinge slightly separated at half title page, but still tight. Contains 22 of 23 tipped in color plates (the frontispiece is missing). Some of the plates have small corner creases. The spine of the book is sunned, but the gilt is still fairly bright and the interior is tight and clean.

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Bookseller: Tulsa Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011343
Title: The Fables of Aesop
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: NY: Hodder & Stoughton; (no date)

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...