Books by LA FONTAINE

Ithaca: Cornell Univ Press. 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine book condition with no dj. All pages clean, unmarked/unsoiled. Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1974 Hardcover, first edition. 1074 pages of tiny type, very detailed. This copy was bound upside-down. Some scuffing/scratches on back board. Ocatvo. ... more information

Viking Press,. 1979.. Hardcover. Like new condition in fine bro-darted dust jacket. 272 pp. ... more information

London: George Bell and Sons. 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. 356pp. Very good in green decorative cloth with gilt titles on spine. Mild shelfwear, soiling. Corners lightly bumped, spine tight. Interior clean. ... more information

The New Press,. 1997.. Hardcover. Near new, fresh unused condition, covers bright, text clean & binding. tight / sticker scar on back of otherwise very good slipcase. Hardcover with slipcase. 141pp., illustrated in colour ... more information

Circleville, OH: Jonnes. 1942. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good. 1942, First thus. This is #14 of 150 copies signed by translator and publisher, Dorothy Jonnes. Unpaginated. Softcover, in original wraps. Very Good copy: light edgewear to wraps, including a small nick on the rear one; the rear wrap also show moderate soiling. Clean and unmarked text. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. (1940). First. First edition. Quarto. 40pp. Illustrated by Andre Helle. Good only ex-library with some pages having been tape repaired, cloth boards soiled. . ... more information

New York:: The Limited Editions Club,, 1931.. Two volumes, cloth, slipcase. Spines slightly faded, else fine. One of 1500 copies, printed by D.B. Updike, signed by Ruzicka. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Decorated cloth. Small university bookplate on each front pastedown along with a neat ink owner name dated 1930. Spines a little sunned, as usual. Still Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Rudolph Ruzicka. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in gilt-decorated blue cloth. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with title page and decorations engraved on copper by... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Decorated cloth. Spines a little sunned. Near Fine in a broken slipcase. Rudolph Ruzicka. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in gilt-decorated blue cloth. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with title page and decorations engraved on copper by Rudolph Ruzicka. Copy #1022 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. ... more information

Limited Editions Club, 1930. Limited. hardcover. very good(+). With Title-page and Decorations engraved on Copper by Rudolph Ruzicka. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, (spines sunned) g.t. in board slipcase (broken). N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. One of 1500 numbered sets, signed by the illustrator. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Decorated cloth. Spines a touch sunned. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with repaired bottom edge. Rudolph Ruzicka. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in gilt-decorated blue cloth. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with title page and decorations engraved on copper by Rudolph Ruzicka. Copy #668 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon pa... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Decorated cloth. Spines very slightly sunned. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Rudolph Ruzicka. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in gilt-decorated blue cloth. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with title page and decorations engraved on copper by Rudolph Ruzicka. Copy #403 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. ... more information

New York: The Limited Editions Club. 1930. Edition limited to 1500 printed at the Merrymount Press, 8vo, 2 volumes, engraved title-pages and decorations throughout by Rudolph Ruzicka; spine very slightly faded, else fine in orig. blue cloth gilt, t.e.g., in slightly scuffed publisher's slipcase. Smith 711. ... more information

France, May 1957. . The 7 menus measure 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 each. The sumptuous menus are printed inside: French on the left, English on the right. Printed on heavy cream paper, they are in very good condition. The fables are "Le Corbeau et Le Renard," "La Singe et le Dauphin,"Le Loup et L'Agneau," "Le Loup devenu Berger,"Le Petit Poisson et le Pecheur," "La Laitiere et le Pot au Lait," and "L'Ane et le petit Chien. ... more information

London and New York:: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [N.d.]. .. lxiv, 839pp. with illustrations. 4to.. 3/4 calf with pebbled boards and gilt decoration and lettering. . Wear to edges of portrait and title-page. Front free endpaper and portrait repaired long ago with tape -- could be removed and repaired. First gathering loose resulting in fraying to edges. Past that gathering, very good. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Decorated cloth. Spines a bit sunned. Near Fine in a Fine later slipcase issued by the publisher. Rudolph Ruzicka. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in gilt-decorated blue cloth. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with title page and decorations engraved on copper by Rudolph Ruzicka. Of a total of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon... more information

Los Angeles: DawsonÕs Book Shop, 1964. Folio, 7 pp. Wrappers in marbled slipcase, a fine copy as issued. Limited to 125 copies. With the plate ÒLa DiscordeÓ from fable 20 and the printed text. Beautifully printed at the Plantin Press by Saul and Lillian Marks. ... more information

Boston: Published by Elizur Wright, Jr. and Tappan and Dennet, 1841. First American edition of the Wright translation, and the first American edition with Grandville's illustrations. 2 vols., Royal 8vo. Illustrated by J.J. Granville. xlviii, 245; 339 pp. Three quarters olive green morocco and marbled paper boards. Very faint waterstaining to edges of engraved title, otherwise a magnificent copy ... more information

Los Angeles:: Dawson's Book Shop,, 1964.. Paperback.. 1 of 125 copies. With a leaf from the 1775-1779 Memorial Edition of the Fables Choisies, illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Oudrey and printed in Paris by Charles-Antoine Jombert. Brewer provides an interesting history of De La FontaineÕs life and work, along with a description of the beautiful memorial edition of his Fables, published a little more than fifty years after his death. It was published in four folio volumes with 275 outstanding engrav... more information

New York, NY: Cassell & Company, Limited, As. Hard Cover. Dore, Gustave Mid- to late-19th Centruy. Large volume with full page wood engraved illustrations, as well as numerous illustrations within text. Deep yellow decorative binding with gold embossed titling to cover and illustration of an owl in a tree, which is clean and crisp. Bumping to corners and some cloth loss from use. Rear cover board has evidence of water staining, but it has not impacted the interior. Spine has been re-backed by... more information