[Rarebooks] FS: LaFontaine's Fables, LEC, illustrator signed

[Bob Petrilla]

Fontaine, Jean de la.  THE FABLES OF JEAN DE LA FONTAINE: Newly Translated
into English Verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques le Clercq.  With
Title-page and Decorations engraved on Copper by Rudolph Ruzicka.  New
York: Limited Editions Club, 1930.  First edition thus.  Two volumes. pp:
xx, 265, (1); xiv, 398, (1), colophon, List of the Publications of the
Limited Editions Club [12 to date].  Bound in blue cloth, gilt-stamped
spines and cover monograms, in the publisher's slipcase with stained, paper
shelfback label, else Very Good.  9" x 6".

This is number 97 of 1500 copies, printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount
Press and signed by the illustrator. $100.00

Postpaid in US.  Usual trade terms.



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