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1967 Aesop's Fables. Read by Boris Karloff. Directed by Howard Sackler. NY: Caedmon. Gift of Pat Donnelly from the Milwaukee Public Library, June, '93.

Twenty-one fables on each side. Karloff's reading is sensitive but surprisingly low-keyed. The…

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1971 Les Plus Belles Fables de La Fontaine. Dites par Francois Perier, Jacques Fabbri, Pierre Bertin. Livre-Disque. ALB-6034. Le Petit Menestrel. Disques de Adès. $20 from Robin Michel, Santa Clarita, CA, through eBay, March, '11.

Here are fifteen…

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1972 Disneyland Double Feature: Walt Disney Presents The Best Stories of Aesop and Animal Stories of Aesop. Both narrated by Sterling Holloway, with music composed and conducted by Camarata. Walt Disney Productions. Disneyland DDF-1. $4.99 from…

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1977 Fables and Fun, Vol. 2. Paperbound. Minneapolis: Marketing Ventures. $6.47 from spittinunagecards through eBay, Nov., '13.

Here is one of two volumes in one of three sets. This landscape volume 9" x 8¼" has the same cover picture…

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2008 Set of 12 fèves of the fables of La Fontaine by Vahine. €10.99 for 11 of the 12 from genealogos on Ebay, July, '20. $1.79 for the twelfth fève, the hare, from Sandysandciestore on Ebay, August, '20.

This group of fèves is unusual for being…

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2010? Complete Series of 10 Fable Fèves. $11.90 from Collecstore13 through Ebay, August, '20. One duplicate of WL as a "cadeau."

This is a particularly successful set of fable fèves. The challenge is regularly how to bring together the two…

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2010? DVO 237 Complete Series of 11 Fable Fèves. $14.28 from Collecstore13 through Ebay, August, '20.

Two curious features of this set of fèves include the "frame" halves of each scene including one of the two characters and the exception, the…

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2010? Complete series DVO304 of 8 fèves of fables of La Fontaine. $9.52 from collecstore13 through Ebay, August, '20.

This series seems to me to be done with less skill than other sets. Especially curious pieces are the oak with the "big hair"…

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2012? Complete Series of 10 Faboland Fable Fèves. "Bonjour Maitre de La Fontaine." Aff 81.00. €10 from Faboland through Ebay, Sept., '20.A similar set earlier for €8.80 from Nathalie Majka, Monchy Saint Eloi, France, through Ebay, July,…

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2011 Complete set of nine "Au Fournil" feves. €12.50 from ptijacky through Ebay, Feb., '24. Extras of Lamb and Stork Fèves from "La Fontaine au Fournil." €1.40 each from Un monde de collection through Ebay, Dec., '23.

"Fournil" means bakehouse,…
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