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The Book of Fables in Prose and Verse
(Kiggins and Kellogg, 1845)
This book, originally sold for $.06, is charming evidence of what fables meant for children in the middle of the nineteenth century. The fables here are long and heavily didactic. The first and longest of the seven fables ...
Fables en Images
(Imagerie Pellerin - Epinal, 1860)
The cover of this oversized (almost 12 x 15½) book shows FC, along with the text for this fable. Inside this cover there are twenty-three posters or broadsides. The little binding that there was in this supersized pamphlet ...
The Book of Fables in Prose and Verse
(Kiggins and Kellogg, 1845)
This is a second copy of a book I have already catalogued, only the blue pictorial wraps there have become tan pictorial wraps here. The advertisements on the back proclaim the same prices. My price for this copy was ...
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 ...
Pleasant Stories for My Children
(Blakeman & Mason, 1890)
LM opens a collection of eight stories in an undersized book. The closing story is labelled out of nowhere Story XXIV! The lion puts his paw by accident onto the mouse, who makes only a squeak and no plea. The lion is ...
Hoch-Deutsches Reformirtes ABC und Namen-Büchlein
(Schaefer and KoradiSchäfer und Koradi, 1832)
A lovely little book of letters and words and commandments. Among the Lese-Uebungen at the back are four fables: MM; The Farmer and His Lawyer-Neighbor; TB; and The Apple-Thief Up a Tree. The second has a nice turn: ...
Lights to Literature: Book Two: A Second Reader.
(Rand, McNally and Company, 1898)
Here is a second copy in excellent condition. This is a standard turn-of-the-century early reader that starts with very simple readings and works up through some fairy tales to more complex stories. FC appears with two ...
Little Folks Delight
(McLoughlin Bros, 1890)
Here is a simple 6½ x 8½ children's book in pictorial boards with a girl washing doll's clothes on the front cover and children rolling a huge ball of snow on the back. Inside is a typical collection of material for ...
Lehren der Weisheit und Tugend in auserlesenen Fabeln, Erzählungen und Liedern: Ein Buch für die Jugend
(In der J.J. Mäcken'schen Buchhandlung, 1817)
Someone must have found some very useful material in this book, since it went through ten editions! It is organized into three major sections. The first has five subsections: Activity and Industriousness; Moderation and ...
Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India.
(Greenwich House, 1894)
Here is an extra copy with the dust-jacket. Forty-five stories with sixty-five illustrations. Many of the stories are indeed folkore but not fable. The preface declares that these are current folk-tales not manipulated ...