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12 Fables of Aesop
(Museum of Modern Artdist. by Doubleday & Company, 1954)
The style is distinctive, but alas I do not find one good illustration (or story for that matter) that I would want to use. People should have a chance to see this book, but so far at least I do not find in it the fantasy ...
Fabeln von Äsop und Äsopische Fabeln des Phädrus.
(Wilhelm Goldmann VerlagWilhlem Goldmann, 1959)
A very straightforward little book with a brief introduction and the texts. There are 172 fables from Aesop. T of C on 164. There are advertisements for other Goldmann books on the final pages, the back cover of the ...
Aesop's Fables (Japanese)
(Iwanami Shoten, 1955)
The series format reminds one of Penguin books in English. Twenty black-and-white illustrations decorate the text along the way. Particularly good are those for DLS (199) and for FS (31), also in color on the (Eastern) ...
Isoppu Dowa
(Kodansha, 1956)
The title of this booklet with stiff boards for pages means Aesop's Nursery Tales. The fun starts with a lively Japanese cover featuring the fox weighing two steaks. A number of beloved fables show up here: BC, BF, The ...
Esopo: Favole
(Rizzoli, 1951)
This fifth edition is identical with the fourth except for changes in the price and in the color and setup of the front and back covers.
A Selection of Aesop's Fables
(Printing Department, Wolverhampton College of Art, 1953)
What a beautiful gift! Sharp translations of 118 fables are accompanied by thirteen lovely black-and-white engravings and monochrome and two-color washes. My favorites among the illustrations are of the old woman and her ...
Mythoi Tou Aisopou
(D.C. Divry, 1950)
See my comments on the 1950/70 edition. By contrast with it, this thinner book lacks the Greek-English vocabulary at the end. This title page shows several curious differences. This edition does not add a parenthetical ...
12 Fables of Aesop
(Museum of Modern Artdist. by Doubleday & Company, 1954)
There is already in the collection a signed third printing of this book. Here is a second printing. As I wrote there, the style is distinctive, but alas I do not find one good illustration (or story for that matter) that ...