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Aesop's Fables
(Fall River Press: Sterling Publishing, 2010)
Here is a casual find from a Christmas shopping visit to Barnes and Noble. It seems to select from the enlarged versions of Rundell and Griset's work that appeared starting in about 1874, even though the only references ...
Aesop I gConamara
(Arlen HouseDáileoirí i Meiriceá thuaidh Syracuse University Press, 2009)
The bookdealer writes this: One day a man called Domhnall Ó Cearbhaill had a brilliant idea, he would make an Irish version of Aesop's fables available. The storyteller Pádraig Mac Con Iomaire did the work for him and ...
The Favourite Book of Fables
(Pryor Publications, 2002)
This book reproduces the 1890 original version by Thomas Nelson and Sons. Pryor Publications is, in their own terms, Specialist in Facsimile Reproductions. I also have a copy of the 1891 printing. This version continues ...
Funny Little Fables and Stories for My Little Friends (Cover: Fables and Stories)
(Dean & Son, 1876?)
This fragile book contains seven chromolithographic plates and a woodcut tail piece. 30 pages, unpaginated. Inscribed in 1896. The text block is coming loose but still holds. The first fable is MSA, told this time as ...
Modern Fables: Twenty of Aesop's Fables Brought Up to Date
(Peoples Pub. GroupThe Peoples Publishing Group, Inc., 1987)
This book is a pleasant surprise! It offers engaging versions of twenty basic Aesopic fables in terms that a grade school student of the mid-twentieth-century might well understand. The references are dated now, and ...
Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien Illustrées de Discours Moraux, Philosophiques, et Politiques
(Chez François Foppens/J. Michael Müller Verlag, 1920)
Here is a second excellent reproduction of a 1669 book. I had already found Bonnot's 1988 reprint at Librairie Epsilon in Paris nine years ago. Now comes this 1920 version from J. Michael Müller in Munich. This reprint ...
Aesop's Fables: The Crow and the Serpent and Other Stories
(Shree Book Centre, 2012)
This book seems to be the third in a series of twenty books, thirteen of which present Aesop's fables. That is surprising, since the book contains sixty fables. Most series present only some one hundred fables; this ...
Aesop's Fables
(Shanti Publications, 2011)
Here is a sturdy 144-page book with a fable on every page after the first six pages, which include a numbered T of C on 4-6. Each page has a strong colored cartoon at its top, and each adds a moral. I find it a good ...
A Treasury of Aesop's Fables
(Igloo Books Ltd., 2013)
This book typifies many recent children's fable books in several respects: it is colorful, heavy, and its art may have been created on a computer. Like a number of recent books, it has a puffy set of covers. This book ...
The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs and other Aesop's Fables
(Miles Kelly Publishing, 2013)
Fourteen fables on 40 large-format pages. I am fortunate to have found a whole set of the first printing at once, and at an attractive price! The books are a further use of 200 Aesop's Fables: Favourite Fables to Share, ...