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Anthony Ant y Grady Grasshopper
(Harlin Jacque Publications, 2002)
The title-page contuinues Una Nueva Versión de La Fábula de Esopo: La Hormiga y el Saltamontes. Anthony is on roller-skates. Page 5 offers a view of him in action that is something like an Eadweard Muybridge series of ...
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 ...
El Gallo, la Zorra y el Perro: Fábula de Esopo
(La Galera, S.A. Editorial, 1981)
Here is a bright, clean book with hard covers telling the UP story. The artist does fine work with the animals' faces here. The fox's early grins are excellent! The dog really does come in this version. There are ...
H Alepou Me Ten Kommene Oura
(Agkura D.A. Papademetriou, 1979)
This is a single story that is #9 in the series Paramythia tou Aisopou Me Eikones and reappears in the collection Paramythia tou Aisopou, Tritos Tomos, listed under 1986/96. I have six of the eighteen pamphlets in the ...
The Very Greedy Dog
(Dominie Press, 1999)
I am surprised that I have never run into this series of ten books before. I wrote the publisher yesterday to ask about the set. Sixteen pages. This version starts with a farmer giving a dog meat and the greedy dog ...
The Hare and the Tortoise
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is the seventh book listed in this series of ten, the second book that I have found thus far. It has about twice the number of words as the other volume, The Very Greedy Dog. There are 587 words here to 228 there. ...
H Gida Kai O Gaidaros
(Agkura D.A. Papademetriou, 1979)
This is a single story that is #18 in the series Paramythia tou Aisopou Me Eikones and reappears in the collection Paramythia tou Aisopou, Ektos Tomos, listed under 1992/96. I have six of the eighteen pamphlets in the ...
The Sun and the Wind: An Aesop Fable
(Faith and Life Press, 1983)
Here the wind and the sun start by laying out their philosophies. The wind insists that nothing is stronger than force and that he can make people do anything he wants if he blows hard enough. The sun smiles and speaks ...
He Alepou ki ho Korakas
(Ankyra, 2004)
Here is one of a series of 16 slick oversized 8-page pamphlets, of which I have three. The best illustration of a strong group may be the cover illustration, which has the fox laughing and holding the cheese in her paw. ...