Boris Artzybasheff / Aesop's Fables / Signed First Edition, 1933 / Restored DJ

Aesop's Fables [Signed by Artzybasheff]. Author: Aesop; Boris Artzybasheff ed. Title: Aesop's Fables [Signed by Artzybasheff] Publication: New York: Viking Press, 1933. Description: Near Fine / Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1933.

Slim octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase; xii, 86pp. Throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper, heavy color touch-ups to extremities, especially along top margin of front panel, with evidence of prior shallow chips and tears along edges and various splits down folds; faint offsetting from woodcuts, else Near Fine in a Very Good albeit overly-restored copy of the uncommon dust jacket.

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