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Fabeln von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Volksverband der Bücherfreunde: Wegweiser-Verlag, 1927)
"Here is an extra copy of this book. This delightful little volume was a "Liebhaberabdruck für die Freunde des Volksverbandes der Bücherfreunde" and was not for sale. Lessing's fables are always stimulating. One forgets ...
Fabeln von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Volksverband der Bücherfreunde: Wegweiser-Verlag, 1927)
"This delightful little volume was a "Liebhaberabdruck für die Freunde des Volksverbandes der Bücherfreunde" and was not for sale. Lessing's fables are always stimulating. One forgets perhaps how droll and clever he is! ...
Faules de Isop, Filosof Moral y de Altres Famosos Autors
(Estampa de Torras, 1885)
""Corregidas de nou." The closing T of C lists eight books. The sixth is attributed to Remicius. The full-page representation of Aesop is surprising: he is a handsome hunchback. The pose is that of Steinhöwel's Aesop ...
Koty i Mysli: Basni
(Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1978)
"Here is an earlier copy of a book already in the collection.under 1983. A few things are different. On some pages, like 25, one can note a difference in color density. Generally, the illustrations here are not as sharp ...
Von Tieren und Blumen: 18 Fabeln erzählt von Hans Licht
(Festungsverlag Salzburg, 1946)
I have known of Hans Licht -- and I presume it is the correct Hans Licht -- from his history of sexual life in ancient Greece. Here are eighteen longish fables. I tried the first: country mouse and mole. Well done! ...
Petites Fables
(Éditions Médicis, 1965)
"Here is an unusual and curious effort. Zaug has created some 140 30-line poems and arranged them alphabetically, as the closing T of C shows. The collection is preceded by a dedication, an invocation of La Fontaine, and ...
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
(Scholastic, 1995)
"The back cover is right: "Rabbit keeps tricking Coyote again and again." Several of those trickster moves are the stuff of fable. In the first trick, a farmer gets rabbit stuck to a wax scarecrow that is like the tar ...
Fabel von Bahndamm und andere Fablen & Texte
(Verlag Eremiten-Presse, 1977)
"Here is another book about which I can honestly say: "I have no idea what to do with this book!" I believe it honors "VauO," Viktor Otto Stomps, by presenting some of his works along with strong full-page woodcuts. I ...
Fables de La Fontaine Interprétées par Coco Lulu
(H. Wellens & W. Godenne, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1898)
"A listing on the web helped with information on this unusual little paperback volume of 88 pages: "Fables de La Fontaine dans la langue populaire du quartier de Marolles (Bruxelles). Coco Lulu est le pseudonyme de Victor ...
Fables in Frames: La Fontaine and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France
(Peter Lang, 1997)
"I wish I could take the time to read through this study! Powell argues, I believe, that increased interest in La Fontaine in the nineteenth century arose largely from the visual artists who interpreted the fabulist in ...