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Fairy Tales & Fables (Miniature)
(Jean Day, 2003)
The source for this book is a Goldsmith edition of 1923. Eighteen pages. The cover shows Santa painting a Noah's Ark. Eleven colored illustrations, with others in black on sepia. 13/16 x 10/16. The fables included are ...
Toy Books
(s.n.], 1900)
The ten books betray a heavy Protestant moralizing ethic. Each of the ten books has about six full-page illustrations in very good condition. Six verse fables make up the third book: LM, The Birds in Council (who want ...
Childcraft: The How and Why Library.
(Field Enterprieses Educational Corp.Field Enterprises Educational Corp., 1973)
Compare the five fables (76-84) here with those in the parallel 1964 edition. They occupy exactly the same pages, but two of the five fables have changed. BW and AD have replaced TMCM and FS. The held-over fables use ...
Illustrated Poems for Children
(Hubbard Press, 1973)
A beautiful large book in excellent condition containing a wealth of poetry. Among its many poems is Emerson's The Mountain and the Squirrel (21).
The Sleepytime Storybook
(Random House, 1962)
Large-format book with eight folktales and two fables: TH and Tit for Tat, in which the camel can answer back to the jackal on his back in the river It's a habit I have. The art is simple, big, and colorful.
Fairy Land Tales Told Long Ago
(F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1885)
This large-format book with cheap paper presents a potpourri of children's texts and illustration from various genres, with four full-color inserted pages of dressed up children not related to the texts. The black-and-white ...
The Book of Knowledge:The Children's Encyclopedia, Volumes V-VI
(The Grolier Society, 1941)
There is one set of six fables in these volumes, on 1969. They are without illustration. The fable about the ass who complains to Jupiter and is finally given to a tanner misses the funny point about the ass's being ...
The Book of Knowledge:The Children's Encyclopedia, Volumes III-IV
(The Grolier Society, 1941)
There are three segments of fables in these volumes, all without illustration and all told in traditional fashion. There are four fables on 1102 and 1186, respectively, and three on 1342.
The Book of Knowledge:The Children's Encyclopedia, Volumes VII-VIII
(The Grolier Society, 1941)
There is a set of two fables on 2461, each with an illustration: GA and Two Asses. This item seems to have missed this volume's T of C. There is also a set on 2965-6 of four stories of Reynard, each with a simple ...
Time for a Tale
(Brimax Books, 1986)
This book includes one fable, TH (34). It is both well told and well illustrated. The illustrations are better than those in other Kincaid versions. There is a nice interchange when the hare asks Are you walking your ...