Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Little Classic Series

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:53Z

en_US 2006-12

en_US 1920?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1920

Abstract

en_US I have another copy of this booklet in a different printing. I will refer to it by the name of the man who sold it to me on eBay in 2000, John Abbas. This Karaba copy found in 2006 may be older. The only difference I can find in the two booklets comes on their covers. The inside front cover of the Abbas copy seems more extensive in its listings, for example, of five cent editions for eighth and high school grades. My guess is that Flanagan developed greater and greater listings in time, and so there are fewer in this earlier, Karaba copy. The layout of these pages has also changed. As I mentioned in commenting on the Abbas copy, this is a thirty-four page booklet listed as appropriate for the first grade. It is a Five Cent Edition if one buys at least five booklets! Otherwise one has to pay a whole six cents! There are many monosyllabic words and short sentences here. There is a simple line drawing for each of the fables. The hare here intends to take a nap along the way. In GA, the grasshopper says that he was singing and dancing all summer, and the ant says he can do both all winter. In SW, there is no bet. The wind sees the man and says that he can blow his cloak off. When he fails, the sun says I can make him take it off, and the wind answers Let me see you do it. I think any first-grader will see through that story! Also included: CP, FC, BC, The Fox and the Lion, The Dove and the Bee, BW, DS, LM, FG, The Kid and the Wolf, and The Fox and the Cat. Both booklets are in delicate condition. This copy seems to have a brown honeycomb pattern on its cover, as though it had been up against a lattice for a long time. The extra copy has a cleaner cover but some internal handwriting and smudging. I will keep both in the collection.

Identifier

en_US 6172 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81578

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US A. Flanagan Company

en_US Chicago

Subject

en_US PZ8.2 .A254 1920

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

Book, Whole