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Aesop's Fables Profusely Illustrated
(The World Publishing Co., 1910)
"There is already a copy of this book in the collection, found in 1992. Now some 33 years later, I have found a copy in better condition with a dust jacket. It is hard to believe that the book was printed as early as ...
The Fables of Aesop
(View Productions, Pty Ltd., 1985)
"There was a spate of reprintings of Detmold's "The Fables of Aesop" about the time that copyright on his 1909 edition ran out. This has a larger page format than those others, and it does not paste in his colorful ...
Famous Aesop Fables: The Fisherman and a Little Fish & other stories
(Jiwa Seni Sdn. Bhd., 2002)
One in a set of seven 7½ x 10¼ pamphlets, each including seven fables. For each fable, there is a full page of text on the left and a full-page colored illustration on the right. The cartoon illustrations are simple and ...
Les Fables d'Ésope, mis en Français, Avec le sens moral, en quatre vers, à chaque Fable. Tome Premier
(Chez Billois, 1801)
Dédiée à la Jeunesse. Note that I have only the first volume. Not in Bodemann. A charming little book, not least for its few but lovely illustrations. After a word to youth, there is Planudes' life of Aesop, embellished ...
The Milkmaid & her Pail & Other Stories
(Pegasus B. Jain, 2010)
There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. MM features about the youngest girl -- Anne -- I have seen for this role. Her ruminations include Poor Polly Shaw! Won't she be jealous? ...
The Horse, Hunter & the Stag & Other Stories
(Pegasus B. Jain, 2010)
There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. Mercury and the Woodcutter underscores the stupidity of the greedy man, who immediately takes the golden axe. The Horse, Hunter & the Stag has ...
The Ass and the Lapdog & Other Stories
(Pegasus B. Jain, 2010)
There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. The title-story comes only third of the four. The Shepherd and the Wild Goats is well told and well illustrated: those who treat new recruits ...
The Hare & the Tortoise & Other Stories
(Pegasus B. Jain, 2010)
There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. TH is told in traditional fashion, but the booklet's cover presents the hare riding on the tortoise. The hare also happens to be holding a ...
Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse
(Griffith and Farran, 1870)
Here is another binding of a book I have already in two other bindings. This time we have a standard cloth library binding from the Brooklyn Public Library. I am happy to see that it was taken out by some ten different ...
The Peasant, the Snake and the Fox and Other Stories
(Rohan Book Company, 2000)
This twenty-four-page pamphlet starts with a title-page and TOC. The title story gets eight pages, while the other seven get from one page to three pages each. The peasant of the title story, wearing his fez, vest, and ...