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Aesop's Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise and Other Fables
(Paradise Press, Inc. By arrangement with Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. ©1995, 1997 Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., 1997)
The endpapers for all four volumes in this set contain the same four designs, one for each book's title-story. This volume contains TH, TMCM, The Farmer's Daughter (MM), and FC. The hare plans to take a nap. TMCM at ...
Fables of Aesop
(Churchill RoadJoseph Tetley & Co., 1896)
Here is a lovely little advertising book with material lifted straight from the Jacobs/Heighway edition of 1894, right down to emblems and frontispiece. The advertising is for Tetley's Teas, and A.W. Miller of Auburn, ME, ...
The Lion & the Mouse
(Little Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers,Little, Brown and Company, 2009)
I write above that Pinkney is the author. Actually, the story of LM is beautifully presented almost without words. The only words one finds here are words like Squeak and Roar. Pinkney himself sums up the tale in the ...
Fables d'Ésope
(Editions Nord-SudÉditions Nord-Sud, 2006)
North-South continues to extend its publication of this book first done in German in 1989. This French edition represents the fourth language in which I have this book. This edition, slightly smaller than some of the ...
Tales of Aesop: Retold Timeless Classics
(Perfection Learning Corp., 2000)
In this book one finds ten fables, a play in five acts, and four full-page black-and-white illustrations. Each fable is introduced with a black-and-white vignette featuring not the fable but one of the main characters. ...
Aesop's Fables: Mishle Izop: 312 Tales in Hebrew and English
(B.W. Hecht, 1938)
This is the first work in Hebrew to contain nearly all of Aesop's Fables. The Hebrew renderings are original: they have no connection with those of any other author. There is a good clean start to a book! It is meant ...
A Dozen from Aesop
(Cooper Union Art SchoolRichard Schiff at the Cooper Union, 1951)
The bookseller writes: An entirely hand made and hand penned book transcribed by Richard Schiff at the Cooper Union February 1951. 'Translated for children by Milo and Ana Winter' at the bottom of the title page. Laid ...
Fables from Aesop
(Oxford University Press, 1966)
Excellent reproductions of Grandville. Index on 207. Rees is liberal in his translations--and often delightful. Do not miss the good (Aesopic?) text of the man in the shower on 181.
The Fables of Aesop
(©1966 Legacy Press. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, Inc.: Xerox., 1894)
Is it not curious that this publisher would choose to go back to Jacobs and Heighway the very year that Schocken picked them up? An unidentified Legacy Library editor G.H. writes an introductory note to the reader. ...
Two Fables of Aesop With Designs on Wood
(Vagabond Press of Lloyd Whydotski, 1818)
Nice cuts of The Lion, the Tiger, and the Wolf and The Envious Man and the Covetous. A curious little book. Notice the spelling of the city in Wisconsin!