I already had a copy of this book with a frontispiece whose background is black when I found this copy whose background is white! The book is otherwise identical. Might the printer have had a bad day and forgotten to add ...

I already list a copy of the first printing that I received as a gift. This copy, from the fourth printing, adds a Caldecott Medal Award gold seal on the front dust-jacket. As I wrote there, my form lists Pinkney as the ...

This paperback book has an unusual shape: about 4¼ wide by 8½ high. The cover features a dramatic picture of BW. Inside are forty fables, as the beginning T of C shows. Up to 74, the fables are two-pages in length. ...

Here are ten groups of twenty fables each, with individual fables generally using two pages. The resulting heavy 512-page book has a lot to recommend it. What a large group of fables to present! What lively colors and ...

This is a straightforward, tight, good looking book of eighty pages, 4 x 7, presenting 144 Latin fables. It is inscribed by W. Thackwray Shaw in 1866. There is also a notation Don Shaw 12.02 on the obverse of the title-page. ...

This book is a surprise related to a surprise. It is in fact the same book published a year earlier by Edward H. Weed, which I found by surprise eight years ago. Unfortunately, this copy is in poor condition and lacks ...

Here is a German-language article of some 83 pages on a Dutch manuscript of the fifteenth century. It represents typically careful German work. The texts themselves are listed with their Latin titles on 15. They represent ...

Each of these seems a larger edition of my 1848/48? edition by a firm that somehow either included or excluded a brother! The address is also changed. The red and black covers of these beautiful books add gold to the ...

Strange things happen when one delves into publishing history. This is a pamphlet of at least 62 pages, followed by four pages of advertisements. I could not find a match with any of the Books for Bairns volumes of Aesop's ...

This book represents a major find, for which I am strongly indebted to Mary. This copy got me going on a major project, and I found Opper worthy of careful analysis. See my extensive comments on the first edition (1916). ...