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1950? Dust jacket presenting "la pie qui chante." Three colors. €8 from blandjul through Ebay, August, '22.

The recto explains "Cleverer than Master Crow, the magpie who sings keeps his bonbons for wise children." The verso shows the candy…

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1952? French dust-jacket, 9½" x 7", apparently for a school book, advertising "Amora: La Moutarde de Dijon." €5 at St. Ouen, August, '17. One duplicate for $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, Feb., '05.

The colorful mix of reds,…

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This set of dust-jackets is unusual in two ways. First, it features original fables by someone other than either La Fontaine or Florian. Secondly, it seems not to be advertising anything. It lists only the printer Vagné in Pont-à-Mousson. Lovely…

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This pair of dust-jackets is unusual for not involving advertising. It also seems not to be signed by an artist. The quality of the images' color is, I believe, strong. The white surrounding the aging laborer is stark! The slight pink of his face…

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1950? Dust-jacket with an oval illustration of "Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin" and, on the verso, the text of the fable. "Protégé-cahier offert par Byrrh." €6 from secoressource through Ebay, Oct., '21.

This picture is unusually well…

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1950? Dust-jacket with an oval illustration of FS and, on the verso, the text of the fable. "Protégé-cahier offert par Byrrh." €8 from Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, June, '23.

This picture is unusual for emphasizing the defeat and chagrin of…

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1895? Four schoolbook dust-jackets published by C(amille) Charier in Saumur, France, depicting fables: “Wolf Become Shepherd”; TB; TMCM; and WC. $10 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne-Ricouart, France, Sept., ’21.

Fragile and beautiful old book…

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1895? Booklet of 16 dust-jackets stapled together. Algis and G. Dascher. published by C(amille) Charier in Saumur, France. €33 from Maxime Chupin, Carqueiranne, France, through Ebay, July, ’21.

Here is a remarkable experience and a remarkable…

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1900? 6 Dust jackets ("Couverture Cahier") "Fables de La Fontaine" by Auguste-Godchaux, Paris. Artist: L. Mimard. Colored presentations of individual fables and texts – both in ornamental frames -- on both covers. €6 each from…

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1915? Three dust-jackets, each with an orange duochrome illustration of a La Fontaine fable signed by Paul Giraud. The verso offers tables of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The stapled inside flaps offer the outline of a…
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