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My First Book of Fables
(Collins, 1949)
This book has some features of each of two other books that are very similar: The Children's Press version of the book by the same title under 1949? and the Collins edition listed under 1950?. The cover of this edition ...
Greetings Christmas 1922
(Kaufmann's, 1922)
The book is written by Santa Claus for all the good boys and girls. It is published by Kaufmann's, The Big Store. Christmas, 1922 is at the base of the front cover, which features a picture of Santa with two children in ...
The Fables of Aesop in Words of One Syllable.
(Henry Altemus, 1900)
This book replicates another, listed under 1900, except for the cover. Whereas that book has a colored version of Doré's The Hares and the Frogs, this version has a multicolored cloth presentation of BF. I will repeat ...
Paramythia Tou Aisopou, Deuteros Tomos
(Agkura D.A. Papademetriou, 1978)
This is the second of six volumes in a series that I found in Greek Video's catalogue. Three stories: FC; The Rooster, the Dog, and the Fox; and LM. Simple colored illustrations often take a little more than half the ...
Aesop's Fables Profusely Illustrated.
(The World Publishing Co., 1910)
This book is almost a facsimile of the edition I have listed under 1910? from the World Syndicate Publishing Company. The division of material per page seems exactly the same, but the typeface is different. Occasionally, ...
The Ladder to Learning: A Collection of Fables Arranged Progressively in Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables, with Original Morals
(Grant and Griffith, Successors to John Harris, 1845)
See my remarks on the fourteenth edition in 1835. What has changed here? The engravings are now labeled on the title-page as wood engravings. Grant and Griffith has succeeded to John Harris as publisher. The company-name ...
The Fox and the Grapes and Other Tiny Tales
(J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1910)
This edition starts with one of the longest versions of FG I have seen. Each of ten fables gets at least one full-page illustration. The illustrations have either one color or two, blending red with either black or brown. ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Books, Inc., 1930)
Here is a third form of an Art-Type version published by Books, Inc. This copy is larger in format that the interiorly identical green-covered book. This copy adds a printer's design on its purple cloth front-cover but ...
Äsop: Die Fabeln
(Boje Verlag in der Bastei Lübbe, 2011)
Here is the German version of the very good fable book published in 2010 in English by Andersen Press. As I wrote there, Testa's style remains similar to the style he showed in his 1989 Barron edition encompassing twenty ...
[Japanese] Aesop's Fables 76
(Nagaoka Shoten, 1994)
Except for the apparent date of publication, this booklet is identical with another that was published in 1992. As I write there, the presentation of the five fables here (The Lion in Love; The Lion, the Leopard, and the ...