This is a paperback book of some 182 pages featuring, in black-and-white, Velasquez' portrait of Aesop and many of Milo Winter's illustrations. A curious fact about the book seems to be that it is already out of print, ...

What an explosion of imagination! The book presents twelve assemblages of old tools, parts, kitchen utensils, and sheer junk! The foreword by MC Di Venanzio rightly proclaims of viewing one of these works This is truly ...

This is a sturdy, small (4¾ x 6¼), and handsome 69 page edition that uses Rackham's art well. Several of the strong illustrations are allowed to move outside the margins, like WS (8), WC (13); FC (19), and FK (22). The ...

As far as I can tell, this book does not even admit who published it! It contains 81 fables on 166 pages. In all but one respect, it is a quintessential print-upon-demand book using the earlier efforts of others. That ...

This small hardbound book is a curious melange. The introduction by Chesterton, taken without attribution from the 1912 edition featuring the art of Arthur Rackham, drops Chesterton's first paragraph. The translations ...

This is an extra copy of this pop-up book. Here is the English version, attributed to Aesop, of a French version from the same year that is attributed to La Fontaine and published by Cerise Bleue: Les Fables de La Fontaine ...

This is a strange treasure! It is surely one of the curiosities of this collection. Keller explains: The fables are illustrated by cast paper images of architectural adornments on buildings in the borough of Manhattan, ...

Here is a casual find from a Christmas shopping visit to Barnes and Noble. It seems to select from the enlarged versions of Rundell and Griset's work that appeared starting in about 1874, even though the only references ...

This book is a delightful surprise. It takes some seventeen traditional Aesop's fables, told in the book's last pages. For each it spins out a new tale about fashion, shopping, and clothes. The watercolor (?) illustrations ...

Here is the Heinemann/Doubleday classic of 1912 scanned, stripped of Arthur Rackham, and packaged in a paperback of 302 pages. One fable per page. The book has the look and feel of the present spate of publish-on-demand ...