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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. John Fitz (illustratore). This book is in quite good condition with some very light soiling to the decorated brown boards; gift inscription inside front cover. Some small pencil markings to indicate when a fable had been read.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. John Fitz Jr. (illustratore). 1st Edition. Aesop's Fables. Arranged with an introduction by Blanche E. Weekes. Illustrated by John Fitz Jr. Philadelphia, Chicago, and Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1928. First edition thus, in The Child's Garden of Charming Books series. A beautifully illustrated early 20th-century juvenile edition of the classic fables, containing over 150 stories including The Lion and the Mouse, The Tortoise and the Eagle, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Features a bright color frontispiece and numerous in-text line drawings by John Fitz Jr., with decorative illustrated endpapers depicting The Lion and the Mouse, The Dog and His Reflection, and The Tortoise and the Hare. Bound in tan cloth pictorially stamped in black and orange, showing a dapper fox bowing to a lamb. A charming example of Winston's art deco house style. Condition: Very Good. Light wear and rubbing to pictorial cloth, spine ends slightly frayed; binding tight. Ownership name ('Marion Howard, 1929') on front endpaper in pencil; mild toning to paper as typical. A clean, attractive copy with vivid frontispiece and crisp interior illustrations. Edition/Printing: Copyright 1928, The John C. Winston Company. No later printings indicated. First Winston printing of the Weekes/Fitz illustrated edition. Blanche Ethel Weekes (b.1883) was an educator and author associated with Teachers College, Columbia University, where she specialized in children's literature and pedagogy. She published The Influence of Meaning on Children's Choices of Poetry (1929) and adapted or arranged several classic works for young readers. Her introduction and editorial arrangement of Aesop's Fables for John C. Winston Co. (1928) reflect her educational approach to moral storytelling and literary appreciation for children. John Fitz Jr. was an American illustrator active during the late 1920s, best known for his work with the John C. Winston Company's Child's Garden of Charming Books series. His drawings, noted for their crisp linework and lively characterizations, appeared in Aesop's Fables, The Little Lame Prince, A Dog of Flanders, and Rip Van Winkle. Though little is recorded about his life, Fitz's style reflects the transitional period between art-nouveau and early art-deco illustration in American juvenile publishing.