Calder, Alexander, illus.

Aesop.  Fables of Aesop, according to Sir Roger L'Estrange.  Paris: Harrison of Paris, (1931)



In 4s (10 x 7  1/2  in.; 254 x 190 mm, uncut).  Designed by Monroe Wheeler, illustrations by Calder.  Publisher's original cloth-backed boards.  Original pictorial dust jacket.  Original red cardboard chemiseand slipcase; slipcase skillfully repaired at edges.  Blue buckram folding-case, black morocco gilt lettering-piece. With original printed paper-knife laid in.

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Aesop:In 4's (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 254 x 190 mm, uncut). Designed by Monroe Wheeler, illustrations by Calder. Publisher's original cloth-backed boards. Original pictorial dust jacket. Original red cardboard chemise; some wear. Blue buckram folding-case, black morocco gilt lettering-piece. With original printed paper-knife laid in. Coleridge: In 4's (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 254 x 190 mm). Illustrations by Calder. Publisher's red cloth; some wear and fading. Original dust jacket; chipped. Black buckram folding-case, red morocco gilt lettering-piece.
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Copy 274 of 595 copies on Auvergne (of a whole edition of 645). Inscribed and with two portrait drawings of the recipients on the front free endpaper.  The drawings are a female portrait head and a male bust-length portrait of a man in jacket and tie, smoking.  Calder has signed the drawing "from Sandy, Nov. 9, /44"

with:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  With an Essay by Robert Penn Warren.  New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1946)

In 4s (10 x 7  1/2  in.; 254 x 190 mm).  Illustrations by Calder.  Publisher's red cloth; some wear and fading.  Original dust jacket; chipped.  Black buckram folding-case, red morocco gilt lettering-piece.

Inscribed by Calder on the front free endpaper, "With much love to Peter & Ebie Blume [with the "B" extended into a drawing of a flower] from Sandy, (in a slightly punctured condition).  Xmas 1950."  Also inscribed by Robert Penn Warren and Malcolm Cowley (the dedicatee of the book) on 24 April 1985.