There is a copy of this book already in the collection, but I could not pass up the opportunity to include a copy signed by Eugene McCarthy. I may even have voted for him! The brief-title-page has this inscription: To ...

Here is the 1961 printing of a 1957 book I first found twenty-six years ago. As is only appropriate, this copy is in better condition than that. Still, it has a damp basement odor. It was used in Atlantic, Iowa, community ...

If I had to offer people one sample French-language children's book from the later 1900's, this might well be the representative book. There are ten fables, and it would be hard to argue that they are not the most popular ...

Here is an ingenious piece of ephemera. One opens a brochure somewhat smaller than 10 x 4. As one opens, scenes open and succeed each other, each with a portion of La Fontaine's Fox and Crow on a facing text page. There ...

This collection already has one book, Select Fables of La Fontaine with English Notes, from 1864. This book is quite distinct. That book offered 120 of La Fontaine's verse fables with extensive English notes. This book ...

At the end of a wonderfully successful shopping day along the Seine, a favorite Buchinist mentioned this set of four volumes to me. At first I was uninterested; I have a great deal of Grandville. Then he mentioned that ...

At the end of a wonderfully successful shopping day along the Seine, a favorite Buchinist mentioned this set of four volumes to me. At first I was uninterested; I have a great deal of Grandville. Then he mentioned that ...

At the end of a wonderfully successful shopping day along the Seine, a favorite Buchinist mentioned this set of four volumes to me. At first I was uninterested; I have a great deal of Grandville. Then he mentioned that ...

Once again, I thought I already had this fragile stapled pamphlet of 16 pages, found thirteen years ago at Librairie de l'Avénue. It turns out that this pamphlet is not the 1998 edition that I have but rather the (original?) ...

I wrote of the later reproduction of this book by Buchclub Ex Libris in 1971: This book reproduces Mader's Artemis edition of 1951 of the same title. Now here is that Artemis edition of 1951. As I wrote then, it seems ...