Die Fabel von der Grille und der Ameise

Title

en_US Die Fabel von der Grille und der Ameise

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US W. vom Asmuth

Creator

en_US Von Asmuth, W. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kopsch, Heinz

Date

2018-03-05T17:14:00Z

en_US 2017-10

en_US 1936

Date Available

2018-03-05T17:14:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1936

Abstract

en_US Here is 16-page, landscape-formatted booklet (7½" x 6") dedicated by Iduna-Germania Insurance "to our little and big friends for entertainment and stimulus as a sign of solidarity." The lettering is lovely and the five full-page colored cartoonlike illustrations delightful. The story, described in the colophon as after La Fontaine, takes a rather different turn at its conclusion. When the grasshopper goes through the snow to ask the ant for food, the ant is already deep under the earth with his children and cannot even hear the grasshopper knocking. When spring comes, the ant goes out to say hello to his neighbor but finds him lying frozen and starved to death in a dark corner of his flimsy summer home. The moral? "Let us be like the ant! A useful care is precaution; the best precaution is insurance from Iduna-Germania." Of course! Insurance is the real meaning of this fable! Besides a simple staple in the middle, there is a strong binding through two holes punched into the left portion of the cover and succeeding pages. This is a great ephemeral find!

Identifier

en_US 11240 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/117111

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Meissner & Buch GmbH: Iduna-Germania

en_US Berlin

Subject

en_US PZ34.2.A86 Fa 1936 See all items with this value

en_US One story: GA See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole