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FRASCONI, ANTONIO. Twelve Fables of Aesop. Annotated by Glenway Wescott. Printed in red and black. Linocut illustrations by Frasconi. 4to, gilt-lettered cloth-backed illustrated boards; slipcase; 3 copies of the original prospectus with envelope laid in. Designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at The Spiral Press. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1954
number 19 of 975 copies signed by frasconi, wescott, and blumenthal. Additionally, this is the first of a series of limited editions published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler and is marked "Monroe Wheeler's copy" in Wescott's hand, with Wheeler's bookplate, and inscribed "For Monroe, my first and last publisher, Glenway."
