FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books

A E S O P U S S E M P E R V I V U S
signed copies. With separate folded leaf containing the artist’s biography. The Swiss artist
Warja Lavater (1913 –2007) became especially famous for her folding books, most of them published
in the 1960ies by Maeght in Paris. – Not in Bodemann. – Slightly browned, a good copy.
91 STEINEL. – Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (von). Reineke Fuchs.
In 12 Gesängen. With 20 signed orig. lithographs on plates by Kurt Steinel. 133 pp.
4to. Illus. orig. boards in transparent dust-jacket.
(Offenbach, Kumm, 1962). CHF 550.– (EUR 370.–)
The whole edition was signed by the artist in the colophon, while in the present copy, all lithographs
are signed individually by Steinel. Kurt Steinel (1929–2005) was professor at the Hochschule
für Gestaltung in Offenbach/Main. Printed on hand-made paper. – Very nice copy.
92 STEINEL. – Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Tierfabeln. With
orig. signed pencil drawing and 13 (54 double-page) orig. lithographs by Kurt Steinel.
36 unn. leaves. Small folio. Orig. grey half morocco with tooled spine title. Top edge
silvered, marbled boards. In orig. limp card slipcase.
Frankfurt a. M., Ludwig & Mayer, (1962). CHF 480.– (EUR 320.–)
Limited private printing, published by Ludwig & Mayer type foundery. Though not declared as
thus, the present copy with its orig. drawing, the lithographs signed and the half morocco binding
can be considered a de luxe copy. – Bodemann 485.1 (counts double-page illus. as two).
93 FRASCONI. – Known Fables. Printed in red and black. With
12 mostly full-page orig. woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. 32 unn. leaves. Small 8vo.
Marbled boards with front label, in transparent dust-jacket. Untrimmed, top margin
unopened. Black endpapers, twice interleaved with red china paper.
New York, The Spiral Press, November 1964. CHF 350.– (EUR 230.–)
One of 500 copies on Goyu paper, signed by the artist. The illustrations were printed from the
original blocks. Antonio Frasconi (b. 1919 in Buenos Aires) grew up in Montevideo. He moved
to New York in 1945. Here he became widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially
in woodblock printing and book illustration. – Not in Bodemann or Fabula docet. – Good copy.
94 FRASCONI. – Aesop. Twelve Fables newly narrated by Glenway
Wescott. With additional lino-cut title and 17 lino-cut illustrations by Antonio
Frasconi. 16 unn. leaves. 8vo. Stitched. In illus. wrappers (1 double-page soiled).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, (1964). CHF 60.– (EUR 40.–)
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