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Aesop's (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables
(Baker's Plays, 1998)
Here are six fables as engaging contemporary plays. In each case the drama takes a playful approach to the fable. Thus DS can engage in good irony when it has the narrator speak of the butcher trying to have a sincere ...
The Word-Picture Fable Book, or Old Aesop in a New Dress
(T. Nelson and Sons Paternoster Row,, 1872)
One first encounters here a lovely colored pasted-on illustration of FG on the cloth cover. Inside are twenty-two fables offered in rebus form. Beginning on 75 there is a key, a collection of standard tellings of the ...
Aesop's Fables
(Dan Celani, 1990)
Here is a sixteen-page pamphlet about 5 x 7 offering sixteen fables in a nicely printed little version. The texts are taken from 19th century publications. SW (6) is told in the poorer version. An inserted note tells ...
Aesop's Fables (Chinese)
(Shan bian chu ban sheSunbeam Publications, 1989)
There are several curious features about this lovely paperback gift that Andreas brought back from Hong Kong. The first, of course, is that there are about ten words of English in the whole book! The second is that there ...
Select Fables: New Translations from Aesop
(Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1828)
This twelve-page chapbook cost more than I would like to pay, but it seems to be the real thing. In fact it seems to come from the very end of the chapbook-era. It is larger than I have conceived of chapbooks, since it ...
Aesop's Fables Poster Book
(Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Here are twelve posters, each measuring 14¼ x 22½. On each there is a brightly colored picture along with text on one side and a number of varied activities on the other side. Part of the activity side comprises reproducible ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Books Inc.,, 1930)
Here is a book interiorly very close to another Art-Type version for which I have also guessed a date of 1930. This copy has a green cloth cover instead of the brown-and-blue faux grain of the first copy. It has no ...
Aesop's Fables (paperback)
(Grosset & Dunlap, 1947)
I have a copy of the 1981 printing by the Paperback Press. Here is a copy of the 1983 printing. As I have written of the hardbound versions, this book has simple artwork that can be of value. The book includes several ...
The Fables of Aesop. Complete, with Text Based upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L'Estrange.
(A.L. Burt Company, 1920)
This book is interiorly identical with another copy done by Burt for which I have guessed the same year of publication. This copy has a distinctive white cover picturing FS. Like other Burt editions, it adds Heighway's ...
Aesop's Fables Profusely Illustrated
(The World Publishing Co.World Publishing Company, 1910)
Here is a book that is identical in its printing with a dust-jacketed book that is much thinner, even though the two books have the same number of pages. This copy also has a larger cover and larger-margined pages. In ...