The Fables of La Fontaine: A New Complete Translation by Marianne Moore

NY: Viking, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed by Moore on the ffe to artist and book illustrator Andrew Robert Parker with a most whimsical birthday greeting: "Let me inscribe it, Mr. Parker/ with a birthday gift from Michael Freidlich,/ as for The Lion Grow Old -/ if he could see his amber eyes/ by R A P,/ he would not be depressed/. Marianne Moore". Laid into the book is a small card dated May 14, 1958 from Mike (presumably the Michael to whom Moore refers in her inscription): "Dear Bob, Many more happy birthdays to my honored artist of the republic' Mike". With Parker's bookplate on the pastedown. Front cover is stained bottom right with no affect to rest of book; leaves quite bright. In a supplied dustjacket that has a faded spine.