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Drittes Lesebuch für Evangelisch-Lutherische Schulen.
(Concordia Publishing House, 1910)
Here is a third copy in poor condition. A remarkable little book. Lots of fables in its first part and a reading (86) on the meaning of fables. No illustrations for these. A nice verse rendition of MM (31). Further ...
The Bolenius Readers: Fourth Reader
(Houghton Mifflin, 1919)
Here is an extra copy. This fourth reader seems to follow after Happy Days (second) and Door to Bookland (third), both from 1930. Five fables, the first three from Aesop and the last two from Bidpai: The Lark and Her ...
Studies in Reading: Second Grade
(University Publishing Company, 1918)
Here is an extra copy of this 1929 printing in poor condition. Ten fables are sprinkled along the way, each with a fine blue, orange, and white illustration. The Crows and the Dove (102) usually features the stork and ...
The Elson Readers: Book Three
(Scott, Foresman and Company, 1912)
Here is an extra copy in poorer condition. The verso of the title-page here does not, as in the good copy, include The Franklin Company, Chicago, Engravers and Printers. As in Elson's Book Two (1926/27), the T of C at ...
The Young and Field Literary Readers: Book Two
(Ginn, 1916)
Here is the first of t wo extra copies, this one in worn condition. This reader contains many fables, most with one or two simple illustrations of two or three colors: nine from Aesop (43-63), three Hindu (91-105), and ...
The Winston Readers: Second Reader
(John C. Winston, 1918)
Here is an extra copy in a plain brown wrapper. Good several-color illustrations, of which my favorite is TT (17). As often with Richardson's work, the color alignment is sometimes poor. Other fables included are: ...
Fifty Famous Fables
(Johnson Publishing Company, 1910)
See my comments on the 1910 version of this little book that I have from Sherry Carroll. This version has a gray cover that gives no initials for Johnson but does add VA. to Richmond. The title-page, otherwise the same, ...
Erstes Lesebuch für Evangelisch-Lutherische Schulen.
(Concordia Publishing House, 1910)
Seven fables interspersed among prayers, poems, and various pious pieces, all in Gothic script. Four of them get illustrations. The best of these is that of OF on 49. Lively little frogs!
The Heath Readers: First Reader
(D. C. Heath & co. ;, 1910)
Some of the illustrations are colored in, and there is significant discoloration from paint or mud. The book closes with three fables: The Birds and the Frog (traditionally TT), The Bee and the Dove (Aesop's AD), ...