{"product_id":"to-2026-123","title":"Reynard the Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMORA, J. J. (illustrator).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReynard the Fox.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Boston: Dana Estes \u0026amp; Company, 1901.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctavo. xi, 186 pp. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora: twenty-four full-page drawings in monotone (including the frontispiece), with black-and-white in-text vignettes and head- and tailpieces. Publisher's yellow-tan cloth, the spine and front board decorated with an orange fox and lettered in black, an orange fox cub stamped to the rear board. Grandeau \u0026amp; Shorts A2. A very good copy, with darkening to the boards, light wear to the extremities, two previous-owner names, small tape residue inside the covers, and the front hinge lightly cracked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn early book of the illustrator Jo Mora, much later celebrated for his Monterey Peninsula work and his pictorial maps of California and the West. \u003cem\u003eReynard the Fox\u003c\/em\u003e is among the earliest substantial book commissions he carried — his second for Dana Estes, following \u003cem\u003eThe Animals of Aesop\u003c\/em\u003e the year before — and already shows the lively animal draftsmanship the California work would build on. The text retells the old beast-fable of Reynard, the sly fox who outwits lion, wolf, and bear alike — a trickster tradition that ran through medieval French, Dutch, and German versions for centuries. An attractive early-Mora book with genuine appeal for the illustration collector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-123\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mora, Jo","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":46459955216545,"sku":"TO-2026-123","price":285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-123_01.jpg?v=1783399973","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-123","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}