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Fables in Slang and More Fables in Slang
(Dover Publications, 1899)
Here is an early version of Dover's republication of Ade's first two fable books (actually published in 1899 and 1900). It is highlighted by Bleiler's excellent introduction. All the fables but one are reprinted, and ...
Fables in Slang
(Herbert S. Stone, 1899)
Here is a yet later printing -- the sixty-ninth thousandth -- of a book for which I have both a first edition and a nineteenth thousandth from 1899. This copy omits the Stone monogram on its back cover. As I wrote of the ...
Fables in Slang
(Herbert S. Stone, 1899)
Here is a later printing -- the nineteenth thousandth -- of a book for which I have a first edition from 1899. This copy prints Stone on the binding differently. As I wrote there, this is a delightful little book! Ade ...
Fables in Slang
(Westvaco Corporation, 1899)
This edition adds a Hoosier-heavy foreword and ornamental designs to Ade's text. I do not know the Westvaco Corporation; might it have made this edition for use as a Christmas gift? The cover is nicely embossed. The ...
Fables in Slang and More Fables in Slang
(Dover Publications, 1899)
This republication of Ade's first two fable books (actually published in 1899 and 1900) is highlighted by Bleiler's excellent introduction. All the fables but one are reprinted, and apparently almost all the illustrations ...
Fables in Slang
(Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1899)
Now here is a real curiosity. The book is bound upside down. It looks at first like a reprint with green cover of the original 1899 edition by Herbert Stone. It drops the copyright date and the T of C. At the end of ...
Fables in Slang
(Herbert S. Stone, 1899)
What a delightful little book! Ade offers engaging and funny tales with art that shows the same mix of the simple and the cynical. For starters try The Visitor Who Got a Lot for Three Dollars, Sister Mae, and ...