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The eagle & the fox & the fox and the eagle: two semantically symmetrical versions followed by a revised application
(Gaberbocchus Press Limited, 1949)
This wild and wonderful presentation had been on my want list since I saw it in the Heffelfinger Collection in Minneapolis. Princeton Antiques' notice to me was the first time I had heard that it was available. Though ...
Aesop's Fable of The Miller, His Son and Their Ass
(Incline Press, 2006)
Here is a gorgeous private-press book that I happened upon during a New Year's visit to Bartleby's. The book's format is huge: 15 x 11½. The story is well told. The miller's repeated refrain is They are right! The son ...
The Wind and the Sun: Aesop's Fables Retold
(Angus & Robertson, 1951)
In my experience, it is unusual that, as here, the sun starts the argument. The story's form is the poorer version: Whichever one of us can make this poor traveller take off his coat shall be declared the stronger, suggests ...
The Dove and the Ant: Aesop's Fables Retold
(Angus & Robertson, 1951)
Various pages use pastels and black-and-white illustrations. The pastels are particularly charming. My favorite is the two-page spread on which the dove sweeps down to drop a twig for the struggling ant (12-13). This ...
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable Retold & Illustrated
(Templar Books/Candlewick Press, 2012)
Helen Ward is giving herself generously to fables! Unwitting Wisdom, King of the Birds, The Rooster and the Fox, and The Hare and the Tortoise precede this book. Ward sets the story at Christmas time in New York in the ...
The Miller Who Tried to Please Everyone
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is a first printing of this booklet. I will add it to the collection, keeping also the fourth printing already in the collection. Here is the tenth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, ...
The Crow and the Pitcher
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
This is a better copy of the fifth printing. I will leave both copies in the collection. Here is the sixth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
(Dominie Press, Inc.: Pearson Learning Group, 1999)
Here is the fifth book of this series of ten. The word count is 265. Sixteen pages. Finding two of the books of this series led to finding more. Acquiring individual copies, I arrived at a total of nine out of the ten. ...
The Miller Who Tried to Please Everyone
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is the tenth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, CA. The word count is 560. Sixteen pages. One of the best illustrations in this version ...
The Crow and the Pitcher
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is the sixth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, CA. The word count is 265. Sixteen pages. This crow repeats several times I must have water ...