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1988 Sogang University notebook with two phrases on its cover. "Slow and steady wins the race" stands just after "Life is half spent before we know what it is." Gift of Margaret Carlson Lytton, Spring, '88.

One might well ask if these two morals…

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1935? Four graph-ruled 16-page notebooks offered by "Etablissements Verminck," a major producer of products from peanuts, some edible and some not, like soap, as the advertisements suggest. Orange and black, including on each cover an image and…

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1920? Musical Score for TMCM. Set against an illustration. Unknown source for $10, 2017.

This seems to be a copy of the page from "Chansons de France pour les Petits Francais" pasted onto a blank white background. I am a little surprised that…

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1950? Minute Biographies. Pages 11-12. Aesop and John Adams. 7¼" x 10". $7.49 from Bankhead & Company, Alpharetta, GA, through eBay, August, '05.

I had no idea that such a thing existed. Might this have been a book of poster-like individual…

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1976 Fable Friends Magic Pad. "Just scribble over the pages with a pencil. Like magic -- pictures will appear." ©1962 and 1976. Printed in Canada. Alex Wilson Publications, Ltd. Dryden, Ontario, Canada. $3.82 from A.J. Gaudette, Fall River, MA,…

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1949 Two-page article (from Illustration Magazine?) "Parade des Vitrines" by Amélie Anderson. Pages 662-663. 1949. €5.99 from saintemariefrance through Ebay, July, '20.

Apparently the stores and shops in the Faubourg St. Honore and its…

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1879 "Le Meunier, son Fils et l'Ane, d'apres M. Lejeune." L'Illustration Europeenne, November 1, 1879. 9th year, Number 52. Front cover. 10¼" x 14". €10 at Clignancourt, July, '19.

This rendition of MSA seems very familiar. A group of women…

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1863 "Le Satyre et le Passant." (Jean) Pastelot. L'Illustrateur des Dames: Journal des Soirees de Famille." 3rd year, No. 43. October 25, 1863. Front cover. 10¼" x 14". €10 at Clignancourt, July, '19.

This rendition of the fable is more…

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1970 Ten French lottery tickets. "Les Gueules Cassées" ("broken mouths," i.e., wounded WWI veterans). Each with a different tax stamp illustrating a fable of La Fontaine. $5 each from Bertrand Cocq, Calonne Ricouart, France, Sept., '20.

What…

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2015? Signed, numbered linocut block print of Aesop's Fable "The Crab and His Mother" in black and white by Jillian E. Jenkins of jumpjackstudio, Baltimore, MD, on Etsy. "Live by Example." #2 of 10. 8" x 10". $48.16, July, '20.

This is a…
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