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The Great Fables, Lib. of Living Classics – 1st in dj

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The Great Fables from The Library of Living Classics, edited by Manuel Komroff. Illustrated by Louise Thoron. Published 1928 by Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, Longmans, Green & Company (first edition). Top page edges brown. At this time this book was printed it stated “…contains the great fables of all time and is the most complete collection of fables ever published.” Very nice example in the original dust wrapper. Near fine with no major faults in a nearly complete but somewhat brittle dust wrapper. Repairs made to dust wrapper using the thousand-year-old Japanese mulberry paper technique. 6.75 x 9.5. 487 pp.

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