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Aesop's Fables [for the Children]
(Epworth Press J. Alfred Sharp,J. Alfred Sharp: the Epworth Press, 1920)
A remarkable find in very good condition. Fifty-two fables, listed in a T of C at the beginning. No numbers on the pages. Four full-color inserted pages of rather simple art ( The Cock, the Fox and the Dog on the ...
Aesop's Fables: The King Bruce and the Spider and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of seven fables. The King Bruce and the Spider is new to me. Taking an example from a spider that has fallen sixteen times but succeeds on the seventeenth try, Robert Bruce tries and tries ...
Aesop's Fables: The Horse and the Donkey and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of seven fables. The Horse and the Donkey does not involve the loading onto the horse's back of either the dead donkey or his skin. Only his burdens are transferred. GA has for a moral: ...
Aesop's Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of six fables. TH includes this typo, said by the hare about to go to sleep: The winning past is not so far from here. The frontal view of the tortoise with purple laurel around his head ...
Aesop's Fables: The Crow and the Nightingale and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of five fables. In The Crow and the Nightingale King Eagle accedes to the request of the crow to be called the king of song of the woods. The laughter of the other beasts when he makes his ...
Aesop's Fables: The Shepherd with the Flute and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of five fables. The Shepherd with the Flute develops the basic story by making the girl Rani rightly suspicious of the boy Raja's work ethic. His flute has charmed other animals, but only ...
Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Cock and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of three fables. The Fox and the Cock is the Chanticleer story slightly adapted to, apparently, an Asian setting. In The Owl and the Eagle's Daughter the owl asks the crow to contact the ...
Aesop's Fables: The Crow and the Fox
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of five fables. This number differs from the others in the Dreamland set in that it does not include and other stories in its title on the cover, even though it does include four other ...
Aesop's Fables: The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of three fables. In TMCM, the country mouse lives with a wife and family. The ninth paragraph has several awkward repetitions, and a later turn of the page creates this error: With a sweep ...
Aesop's Fables
(Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1927)
At first, I thought this book would be identical with another edition I have listed under the same date and publisher. A chance to inspect the two together shows a number of differences, starting from a cover illustration ...