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Fables de La Fontaine
(Ernest Flammarion, 1933)
See my comments on the earlier printing. This book differs in not having the red-and-blue pictorial end-papers that that earlier edition has. It rearranges the front pages slightly and includes more books illustrated by ...
Modern Fables and Parables or Moral Truth in a Nutshell
(Brethren Publishing House, 1903)
This book seemed so promising! I have to admit that I am disappointed, even though it is a genuine curiosity, and I am delighted to have it. The cover features an embossed Heighway illustration of FS. The book includes ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Ernest Flammarion, 1933)
For some time now, I have kicked myself for having bought a supposedly second copy of a book I had already found at Chanut in Paris this past May. Now as I look at both books, I see that the legal information at the end ...
Greener Pastures: A New Deal Fable of Past, Present, and Future.
(The Caxton Printers ltd.,, 1936)
This is a political satire on the New Deal. I lasted two scenes, given mostly to satirizing the alphabet soup of government organizations that FDR created. Other than demonstrating one of the uses to which the word fable ...
The New Junior Classics.
(P. F. Collier, 1938)
See my comments on the 1938/48/49 edition. This original edition is identical with that except that this edition does not say De Luxe Edition on the title-page and does not have an editorial director.
Aesop's Fables
(Platt & Nourse Co., 1913)
The curious history of this book goes on even further than I had thought! Platt had three different partners in a fairly short time: Peck in 1913, Nourse after that, with Munk apparently still later. This copy lacks the ...
The Animal Story Book.
(Hall and Locke Company, 1902)
Includes some eleven fables from Aesop and four from LaFontaine (and Piers Plowman's BC). Abundant black-and-white illustrations, done by a variety of people: Doré, Fellman?, Prunair?. There are colored illustrations ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(Henry Holt and Company, 1930)
Seventy fables grouped effectively around themes of artistry, social groups, and seventeenth century ideas. The selection was made explicitly to help introduce students to La Fontaine as an artist and as an interpreter ...
The Edson-Laing Readers: Book Two: Lend a Hand
(Benj. H. Sanborn & Co., 1913)
Four fables. LM (26) is told as a simple drama, without illustrations. The Flies and the Honey (39) features a simple set of illustrations and this final line: We drown for one little day of fun. Nezumi the Beautiful ...
Fables for Children
(Oxford University Press, 1948)
These fifeen fables are unusual in filling out traditional fables. The author's note says of her childhood experience of well-known fables The shrewd lessons they had to teach were often above my head, and I wanted to ...