Aesop's Fables (Library Edition) Unknown - 1970

Windmill Books, 1970. First Edition (1970.) Hardcover without dust jacket. Folio with 48 pages. The book is in fair condition with some shelf wear, some water damage to cover does not effect interior or illustrations. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Interior is clean and tight. Inscription in small neat writing on upper corner of title page. Profusely illustrated. Pictures available upon request." Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African American history and historical figures....Lawrence became a nationally known figure virtually overnight when his The Migration Series was shown at New York’s Downtown Gallery in 1941. The twenty-four year old artist became the first African-American to be represented by a New York gallery. Fortune magazine published a lengthy article on the series that reproduced twenty-six of series’ sixty panels, and the entire… Leer más

New York: Windmill Books, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus, library binding issue (not ex-library). Illustrated by Jacob Lawrence and strikingly printed in red and black. Quarto. [48]pp. Red cloth stamped in black. Binding with modest wear and soil, cover with a tiny puncture and about half the text with a pinhole there, very good. The noted African-American artist's second book for children.