Creighton University Archives and Special Collections

Carlson Fable Collection

Item Set

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• juliette et les fables de la fontaine vol 1
  Hélène Ray. Illustration de Karine Georgel. Paperbound. Paris: tire lire poche: magnard jeunesse: magnard.
• One Minute Bedtime Stories
  "Shari Lewis tells her." Music composed and arranged by Stormy Sacks with Lan O'Kun. NY: Caedmon.
• Tales from Aesop
  Reader not acknowledged. Recorded to accompany booklet of the same name by J.P. Miller. NY: Random House.
• Aesop's Fables
  Read by Gordon Fairclough et al. For use with Collected Tales from Aesop's Fables. Manufactured in Taiwan. Gallery Books: Smith Publishers: Victoria House Publishing.
• More Aesop Fables
  Produced and adapted by John Hohmann. Designed by Janet Albrecht. Illustrations by Dominick Giustino. Storytelling by Carl Grapentine. NY: Beanstalk Productions.
• The Wisdom of Aesop
  Produced and adapted by John Hohmann. Designed by Janet Albrecht. Illustrations by Dominick Giustino. Storytelling by Carl Grapentine. NY: Beanstalk Productions.
• Aesop's Fables
  Read by Boris Karloff. Directed by Howard Sackler. NY: Caedmon.
• Aesop's Fables 1-4
  2005 Aesop's Fables 1-2. Xi'an, China: Open Your Ears: Xi'an Jiaotong University Press. $3 from peiyantu, Hangzhou, China, through eBay, Sept., '11. This is one of two audio-cassettes accompanying a book of the same name.  Apparently each of the four sides contains about ten fables.  of the forty-one fables in the book.  The book enhances each English text with vocabulary, translations, and "listening points."  The cassettes present, after some opening Chinese, a reading of each of the fables with its listening points.  These idiomatic phrases may be the strongest point of these tapes and of this combined publication.  The tapes feature good native American speakers. I see some references to 2008 on the verso of the title-page, but I will trust the eBay seller's statement that the book was published in 2005 and that this is a copy of its first edition.  All of the information on the cassettes except their numbers 1a, 1b, 2a, and 2b is in Chinese.  There is a "3" on each side of each cassette; perhaps Aesop's Fables is the third book in the series "Open Your Ears." 2005 Aesop's Fables 3-4. Xi'an, China: Open Your Ears: Xi'an Jiaotong University Press. $3 from peiyantu, Hangzhou, China, through eBay, Sept., '11. This is one of two audio-cassettes accompanying a book of the same name.  Apparently each of the four sides contains about ten fables.  of the forty-one fables in the book.  The book enhances each English text with vocabulary, translations, and "listening points."  The cassettes present, after some opening Chinese, a reading of each of the fables with its listening points.  These idiomatic phrases may be the strongest point of these tapes and of this combined publication.  The tapes feature good native American speakers. I see some references to 2008 on the verso of the title-page, but I will trust the eBay seller's statement that the book was published in 2005 and that this is a copy of its first edition.  All of the information on the cassettes except their numbers 1a, 1b, 2a, and 2b is in Chinese.  There is a "3" on each side of each cassette; perhaps Aesop's Fables is the third book in the series "Open Your Ears."
• Aesop's Fables & Other Stories for Children.
  1993    Aesop's Fables & Other Stories for Children.  Five Audio Cassettes.  Newport Classics Library.  Laguna Niguel, CA: Newport Publishers.  $9.99 from Carinthia Logan, Sials, AL, through Ebay, July, '03.  "Aesop's Fables" is the first of five cassettes.  The others are "Snow White/Sleeping Beauty," "Nursery Rhymes," "Sense and Nonsense," and "Fiction and Fantasy."   The fable cassette seems to run about fifteen minutes on each side.  There is a short introduction to Aesop and fable.  Each fable has an announced title and moral.  The strength of the fable presentations here lies in two facets. First, there is fine musical accompaniment throughout, including a short orchestral climax after each moral.  The second feature is surprising: the speakers use a variety of accents, including mock German, Hispanic, Italian, Eastern European, and Southern United States.  The versions chosen are sometimes weak.  The mouse, e.g., "happens by" the lion captured in a net.  The audio quality is unfortunately less than excellent. 
• Hachette La Fontaine
  1973 Fables choisies de La Fontaine. Livres 1 à 3 et 3 à 5. Cassette 1. L'Encyclopédie Sonore Hachette sous la direction de Georges Hacquard. Illustration par Jacques Blanpain. Unknown source. Excellent readings in French by an array of fine readers, sometimes with musical background. The readers are listed on the paper sleeve of this first tape. It surprises me that these cassettes were done so long ago. 1973 Fables choisies de La Fontaine. Livres 6 à 8 et 8 à 12. Cassette 2. L'Encyclopédie Sonore Hachette sous la direction de Georges Hacquard. Illustration par Jacques Blanpain. Unknown source. Excellent readings in French by an array of fine readers, sometimes with musical background. The selections of both cassettes are listed on the paper sleeve of this second tape. It surprises me that these cassettes were done so long ago.
• Alific Language Plus
  Here are thirty audio cassettes packaged with the booklets shown above.  See the page of booklets and the page of workbooks packaged with each.  Since the cassettes are uniform in their approach, I will give one description and then list the thirty specific cassettes. The set of materials sold for 9800 Won includes the twenty-eight page colored booklet, a monochrome workbook, and an audio cassette. There are thirty such sets in the series. I can remember being overwhelmed when I saw them all on the wall in Kyobo; there were dozens of little kids sitting nearby dutifully reading books. The workbook has a number of activities based upon the story. Some of those activities involve the cassette. Each tape has lively musical background and good sound effects.  Its first side is all in English.  It first reads through the text in the colored booklet, with various native-speaker voices, and then takes up a number of the activities described in the workbook.  It tells the story again completely at the end of the tape.  The reverse side of the tape seems to be in Korean with a few pronunciations and spellings in English.  The tapes follow the book exactly as their script.  I have tried only Tapes 3 and 5 as tests. 2000 The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bok-Tae. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 1: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Fox and the Goat Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Han-Joong. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 2: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Flying Turtle Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Chun-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 3: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 9800 Won from Kyobo Book, July, '04.  2000 The Fox and the Crane Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bak. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 4: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Foolish Donkey Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Chun-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 5: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Goose with the Golden Eggs Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Min-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 6: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Grasshopper and the Ants Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Han-Joong. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 7: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Wind and the Sun Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bok-Tae. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 8: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Lion in Love Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bak. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 9: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Chun-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 10: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Monkey King Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bak. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 11: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Old Lion Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Min-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 12: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Lion and the Mouse Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Min-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 13: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Father, His Son, and Their Donkey Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Han-Joong. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 14: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Wolf and the House Dog Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bok-Tae. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 15: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 Belling the Cat Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bok-Tae. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 16: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Bear's Whisper Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Han-Joong. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 17: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Fashionable Crow Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Chun-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 18: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Golden Ax Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bak. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 19: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Frog and the Ox Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Chun-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 20: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Son and His Mother Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Woo-Bum. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 21: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Farmer and the Eagle Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Han-Joong. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 22: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Frog and the Mouse Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bok-Tae. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 23: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Mosquito and the Lion Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bak. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 24: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Rabbit and the Tortoise Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Chun-Jung. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 25: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Donkey in the Lion's Skin Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bak. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 26: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Farmer and His Sons Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Woo-Bum. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 27: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Dog and His Shadow Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Woo-Bum. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 28: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Lion and the Deer Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Lee Han-Joong. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 29: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05. 2000 The Wolf and the Crane Work-Book. Retold by Kang Yoon-Chung. Illustrated by Kim Bok-Tae. Paperbound. Seoul: The Aesop's Fables for Children 30: Tyranno English Program: Alific Language Plus. 1000 Won from Alific Language Plus, Nov., '05.
• A Call to Character
  1995 A Call to Character Tape One: A Family Treasury of stories, poems, plays, proverbs, and fables to guide the development of values for you and your children. Colin Greer & Herbert Kohl, editors. Performed by Frankie Faison and Karen Allen. Made in USA. NY: Harper Audio: HarperCollins Publishers. $3.99 from Book Express Online through Bibliofind, August, '97. See my comments on the book of the same title and year, from which these selections are taken. I was disappointed that only a few fable materials are taken: on this first tape only the morals from student fables collected by Kohl (34; e.g. "Better to be old than bold!") and two other short materials on the second tape. The tape itself made delightful listening as I drove across Nebraska to attend Sarah FitzSimmons' wedding! The selections represent a noble effort to engage parents and their children in the discussion of values well depicted in classic literature. The tape may include a little too much preaching outside the literature itself. Still, it was a pleasure to hear!   1995 A Call to Character Tape Two: A Family Treasury of stories, poems, plays, proverbs, and fables to guide the development of values for you and your children. Colin Greer & Herbert Kohl, editors. Performed by Frankie Faison and Karen Allen. Made in USA. NY: Harper Audio: HarperCollins Publishers. $3.99 from Book Express Online through Bibliofind, August, '97. See my comments both on the book of the same title and year, from which these selections are taken, and on Tape One. I was disappointed that only a few fable materials are taken: one selection on the first tape and two short materials here: Aesop's "The Lion and the Boar" (269) retold by Ann McGovern and, in the section on responsibility, "Fable" reported as anonymous (333). This latter is really Perry #36 with an oracle instead of the old man here asked whether what two young people hold in their hands is dead or alive.
• Cigar box "Aesop"
  1930?  Cigar box "Aesop."  $20 from an unknown source on Ebay, Feb., '90. Finding this cigar box was one of the biggest surprises I have had in collecting.  Equally surprising is that I have never heard another whisper of "Aesop" cigars.  Not a peep!  What might Aesop have to do with cigars?  By the way, this may be the handsomest Aesop I have seen.  He is certainly not the "human turnip" of the popular lives of Aesop. 
• Candy Boxes
  1935?  Two French cardboard chocolate boxes.  7” x 3⅜” picturing “Two Doves”; WL; MM; FC; and TMCM.  5” x 3⅞” featuring two mice opening a box of chocolate mice!  Heavy cardboard.  “Made in France.”  $10 from chad555, Pottstown, PA, on Ebay, Dec., ’20. What a lovely find!  The covers feature simple, charming multicolored scenes.  This little pair of treasures comes from the parent of a student at a fellow Jesuit University, the University of San Francisco.  And what about these mice – town and country? – who find themselves offered chocolate mice?!
• Porcelain Box, Tortoise and Hare
  1995? Limoges-style porcelain hinged trinket box. A tortoise and a hare perch on top. 2½" x 1¾" x 2¼" high. Made in China. $9.99 from Sue Cartwright, La Jolla, CA, through Ebay, August, '00. Extra exemplar for $4.99 from Today's Collectibles LLC, Midland, MI, through Ebay, July, '00. The tortoise has his head up as a sign of alertness and effort. In the meantime the hare sleeps, with his head, paws and ears on the ground. Inside there is a little trophy for the winner. Click on the image to see it enlarged.
• American Restaurant Matchbook
  1990? Matchbook advertising "Aesops: Riverside's Finest."  Unknown source This matchbook features an image of a fox looking up at Aesop, who holds a staff.  The restaurant advertises itself as "Riverside's Finest."  A quick check in Google seems to indicate that this restaurant, however fabulous it was, no longer exists.
• English Matchboxes
  2000?  Set of five English matchboxes, each with a black-and-white image on one face and the corresponding fable text on the obverse.  "AV 30."  Made in Japan.  Cornish Match Company, Cornwall, St. Ives, GB.  $50 from Leonie Walker, Derbyshire, England, through eBay, Feb., '12. A quick guess says that these are Bewick illustrations.  The fables presented are OR, TH, CP, AD, and "The Countryman and the Snake." 
• Oversized Matchboxes
  2010?    Four supersized (4 ¼" X 11 ½" X 1") matchboxes featuring details of Fraipont's 1888 illustrations along with La Fontaine's text for FS, WL, FG, and MM.  Made in France.  Allumettes Seita.  $11.93 apiece from Desallumettesenveuxtu on eBay, August, '15. 
• French Matchboxes
  I have put together four different purchases of Seita matchboxes. Let me describe them first and then present images. Those images will match those that I have listed under French matchbox covers. 1950? Thirty French matchboxes, each giving the title and an illustration for a fable of either Jean de La Fontaine or Florian. From desallumettesenveuxtuenvoila through eBay, August, '15. Here is a complete set of thirty matchboxes. 1950? Twenty-nine French matchboxes, each giving the title and an illustration for a fable of either Jean de La Fontaine or Florian. $25.90 from from desallumettesenveuxtuenvoila through eBay, August, ' This almost-complete set, missing only "Les Deux Pigeons," replicates the full set of covers in both sets of SEITA illustrations, minus the two larger covers apparently used for packages of ten. Their images are thus the same as that set. 1950? Twenty-nine French matchboxes, each giving the title and an illustration for a fable of either Jean de La Fontaine or Florian. £14 from lifeiselsewhere through eBay, April, '03. It is comic that I have two sets that are complete except for one matchbox. Luckily, the missing matchbox is not the same in this set as in the other. Here the missing matchbox is "The Lion and the Mosquito." Again, this almost-complete set replicates the full set of covers in both sets of SEITA illustrations, minus the two larger covers apparently used for packages of ten. Their images are thus the same as that set. 1950? Fourteen French matchboxes, each giving the title and an illustration for a fable of either Jean de La Fontaine or Florian. 13 Euros for thirteen matchboxes from Romuald Outrequin, Toulon, France, through Ebay, Jan., '02. These join a set I had bought from Mr. Outrequin earlier. These are the first that I found, and they are those pictured first below.  What a pleasure to see covers I had found in two other places now on their boxes. FG, TMCM, and "La Taupe et les Lapins" repeat from there. Strong new designs here include "La Belette Entrée dans un Grenier," FK, "Le Heron," and "Le Renard et le Bouc." Just below are those first-found fourteen.
• Wooden box "Les plus jolies fables de La Fontaine."
  1930?  Wooden box "Les plus jolies fables de La Fontaine."  Six scenes: WC; "Bertrand and Raton"; FC; "Two Mice and an Egg"; TMCM; and FS.  10½: x 7¼".  2" high.  $50 from MidIslandMiscellany through Etsy, July, '22. It is tempting to see this shallow box as made for cigars, but I lean rather toward the theory that it housed a set of six-sided picture blocks.  This box is well worn!  Two of the scenes are rare choices for a small selection of La Fontaine's fables:  "Bertrand and Raton" and "Two Mice and an Egg."
• Russian lacquer box, FC
  Russian lacquer box, signed by Fedoskino artist Zaitseva. 3" x 2½" x 1½" high. The scene depicted on the cover is FC.
• Russian lacquer box
  1980? Russian lacquer box from the village of Palekh illustrating five different stories by Ivan Krylov. Paper mache, gold ink, handmade and handpainted, signed by the artist. 4½" x 4½" x 3½". Excellent condition. $76 from Yury Korchinsky, Reseda, CA, through Ebay, August, '99. This black box is octagonal, with each of the square's edges turned into a very short side. The colors are lovely. Each of the images has a gold-ink background, and each of the short sides a gold-ink branch pattern. The inside is painted a simple bright red. The five fables--each labelled in Russian with a title--are, if one faces the box, "Trishkin's Kaftan" (top), "Demianov's Fish Soup" (front), "The Cat and the Cook" (right), "The Peasant and the Bear" (back), and "The Wolf in the Kennel" (left). I presume that this is a one-of-a-kind item. It is simply exquisite!
• Clairefontaine Set of Six Cardboard Boxes
  2018?  Set of six cardboard boxes picturing La Fontaine fables on their covers.  Etival Clairefontaine: Clairfontaine.  €39.90 from Librairie Dinali, Strasbourg, July, '19.  Now here is something most unusual!  I imagine these boxes are meant as organizers for children.  They have spirited portrayals of six fables, one on the cover of each box.  The other five boxes fit nicely into the largest box.  I happened to notice these in the Dinali store in Strasbourg.  As I remember it, it was basically a stationery store with some used books.  A casual glance at a top shelf paid off!  Now, four years later, I try to find some photos or descriptions on the web, and there is only one reference, and that reference leads nowhere.  So here we are saving something drastically ephemeral!  A second strong recollection is that I tried to talk the store manager into mailing me the boxes.  She insisted that I go straight to the post office down the street and mail them myself.  I believe the postage was almost double the cost of the boxes!
• Advertisement poster for Romanel
  Laminated reproduction of a 1945(?) advertisement poster for Romanel, "the perfect water for the aperitif," featuring FS. A 3 (11¾" x 16½").
• Steve Davis Estates advertisement
  Steve Davis Estates advertisement. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough. -- Aesop." Mailed advertisement