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Les Fables d'Ésope
(Club des Libraires de France, 1965)
The page after the title-page describes this lovely edition well: Les 308 fables ésopique dans une nouvelle Traduction par Jacques Lacarrière suivies d'un essai sur le symbolisme des fables, illustrées de dix miniatures ...
Tolstoi's Aesop's Fables (Hebrew)
(Maḥbarot le-sifrut, 1951)
Here is a modest book of forty-six fables on 51 pages plus a T of C at the end. The blue-ink woodcuts are lovely; they have the look of something stamped into the book by hand. On the whole, they are very nicely done. ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume I
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This fine four-volume series comprises good activities for school children based on fables (eleven per volume) well chosen for their human lessons. Almost every story has a good question labelled Something to think ...
Aesop's Four Footed Fables
(Star Rover House, 1985)
A strange book combining typed text and crude two-colored illustrations. The best pictures are those of the dog and sow (5) and of the camel looking in the mirror (35). The text of The Cat and the Rats catches the ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume IV
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This volume includes Noah at its end and the funny and unusual Momus fable. Asked to look at the original creations (man, house, and ox), Momus found fault with everything by saying Too bad it doesn't have... He was ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume II
(Trillium Press, 1985)
The best pictures here are for DLS and FK. The best moral is to The Fox and the Lion : Knowledge overcomes fear. The best ending line has the goat asking the wolf Are you worried about my dinner or yours?
Aesop's Fables, Volume III
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This volume moves on to poems, possessives, and competition. The best illustrations are for BC, The Tree and the Reed, and AL.
Aesop's Fables
(Exeter Books, 1924?)
Surprisingly good runs of the reproductions of Rountree's work. This book is closest to the sixteen-illustration edition of 1924? As is typical of Exeter, there is no introductory or bibliographical material.
The Tortoise and the Hare
(Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1988)
Large-format pop-up with very kitschy pictures. In 1997, this book is offered for $17.50 by Trevor Blake in Portland, Oregon.
The Fables of Aesop and La Fontaine.
(Duell, Sloan and Pearce, affiliate of Meredith Press, 1958)
A wonderful find sitting out on the table waiting for me! Excellent condition. Nineteen fables with witty and exuberant watercolors, many featuring cute insects having fun around the central action. The best illustration ...