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Fabeln von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Volksverband der Bücherfreunde: Wegweiser-Verlag, 1927)
"Here is an extra copy of this book. This delightful little volume was a "Liebhaberabdruck für die Freunde des Volksverbandes der Bücherfreunde" and was not for sale. Lessing's fables are always stimulating. One forgets ...
Fabeln von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Volksverband der Bücherfreunde: Wegweiser-Verlag, 1927)
"This delightful little volume was a "Liebhaberabdruck für die Freunde des Volksverbandes der Bücherfreunde" and was not for sale. Lessing's fables are always stimulating. One forgets perhaps how droll and clever he is! ...
Koty i Mysli: Basni
(Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1978)
"Here is an earlier copy of a book already in the collection.under 1983. A few things are different. On some pages, like 25, one can note a difference in color density. Generally, the illustrations here are not as sharp ...
Petites Fables
(Éditions Médicis, 1965)
"Here is an unusual and curious effort. Zaug has created some 140 30-line poems and arranged them alphabetically, as the closing T of C shows. The collection is preceded by a dedication, an invocation of La Fontaine, and ...
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
(Scholastic, 1995)
"The back cover is right: "Rabbit keeps tricking Coyote again and again." Several of those trickster moves are the stuff of fable. In the first trick, a farmer gets rabbit stuck to a wax scarecrow that is like the tar ...
Fables in Frames: La Fontaine and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France
(Peter Lang, 1997)
"I wish I could take the time to read through this study! Powell argues, I believe, that increased interest in La Fontaine in the nineteenth century arose largely from the visual artists who interpreted the fabulist in ...
Fabeln von August Strindberg
(Insel-Verlag, 1930)
"Here is a little curiosity. Strindberg is known outside Sweden primarily as a playwright. I find one copy available on abe, where it is listed as published in 1930. The dealer there aptly describes the book in these ...
Fables sous rêve (1960-1970)
(Flammarion, 1985)
"Oops! This book seems to have the form of a journal. A casual glance does not find more than a metaphorical sense to "fable" here. I keep it in the collection to warn off the next collector!"
Von Tieren und Blumen: 18 Fabeln erzählt von Hans Licht
(Festungsverlag Salzburg, 1946)
I have known of Hans Licht -- and I presume it is the correct Hans Licht -- from his history of sexual life in ancient Greece. Here are eighteen longish fables. I tried the first: country mouse and mole. Well done! ...
Almanach auf das Jahr 1941: eine Auswahl der schönsten und bekanntesten Fabeln und Erzählungen, geistlichen Oden und Lieder von Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
(L. Staackmann Verlag, 1940)
"Here is a curious little book. It brings together a mixture of Gellert's fables and narratives and then changes script to Gothic for a selection of his spiritual hymns and songs. Following that there is a life of Gellert. ...