1940? Les Arts de l'Iran l'Ancienne Perse & Bagdad: 8 reproductions en couleurs de miniatures décorant les principaux manuscrits iraniens du Département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Seven postcards, hand-painted in pastels and gold with folder cover, copies of work of the Bagdad school of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--and an extra cover and three postcards from other Persian collections. $9.99 from David Curtiss at Old Not Sold, Sheffield, MA, through Ebay, April, '99.
1986 Into Books: Literature Pack No. 1: Brian Wildsmith's Fables. Melbourne: Oxford. AU $15 from Babyboomerbooks, Mount Gambier, Australia, through eBay, Feb., '09.
Here is a boxed literature unit meant to structure five sessions with pupils. A cover sheet details the contents, including five paperbound Wildsmith fables all contained elsewhere in the collection; a teacher's manual by Andrew Perry and Ron Thomas; two posters; a "Hare and Tortoise" board game; and reproducible bookmarks. Some teacher has also xeroxed copies of some of this material. The fables involved are: The Miller, the Boy, and the Donkey (1969/86); The North Wind and the Sun (1964/86); The Lion and the Rat (1963/86); The Rich Man and the Shoemaker (1965/86); and The Hare and the Tortoise (1982/86). Notice that all were reprinted in the year in which this pack was put together. I have all four elswhere in paperback versions; I have only a hardbound copy of The Rich Man and the Shoemaker. I will crosslist that paperback, as well as the teacher's manual but will keep all these materials together. One poster reproduces the cover of the box and the teacher's manual; the other is unrelated to fables. The six bookmarks offer different black-and-white scenes from TH. A lovely find!
1990 Set of six cards folded over with empty insides, representing humorous views of La Fontaine’s fables. Rolf Köhler. About 4” x 5¾”. La Fontaine’s text is on the final side of each card. Die Schöne Insel-Karte. $5.52 from Buchmarie through ZVAB, Feb., ’25.
Delightful parodies of the fables. The mouse facing the netted lion has workman’s clothes and a pliers in his hand. The fox waits for the crow’s cheese to fall into his baseball cap. Not the grasshopper but the ant appears shivering with a guitar in hand. The frog sees the ox pictured on the side of a truck, while the real ox looks out the back of the truck. The old lion is a tennis player having his tail stepped on by a younger ass. The cock views a small pearl hanging from a young chicken’s breast while an old chicken with large pearl looks on with suspicion.
2018 Engraved wooden postcard. TMCM. Baltic Birch and natural hard wax. $9.23 from the maker, Induku, Tierp, Sweden, through Etsy, August, '18.
Now here is something I have never seen before! Unfortunately, the first exemplar sent to me arrived broken in half. I wrote and asked for a replacement, which came intact. Etsy vendors and creators tend to be very personal. As artists, they are rightly proud of what they create, and this postcard is a great example. I am delighted with the second postcard. Ronnie at Induku wrote that he "cut the card at a 5 degree angle so that the long sides do not line up with an of the grain structure." Well done!
1969 Individual Russian stamp of Ivan Krylov commemorating his birth in 1769. 4 rubles. From James Reinhold, Palm Springs, CA, through eBay, Jan, '11.
Mint condition, beautiful coloring.
