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Title
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Aesop's Fables
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Dandelion Books
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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First U.S. edition
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Retold by Alexander Williams
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Creator
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Moffett, Robin
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Contributor
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Moffett, Robin
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:29:43Z
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1997-12
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1979
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:29:43Z
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Date Issued
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1979
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Abstract
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I had had this book on my want list for years and ordered it without knowing that this was the book I was seeking. For another irony, note that I had to send to Australia to get this first U.S. edition! It is a stiff-covered medium-sized children's book presenting thirteen numbered fables in rather ho-hum fashion, with black-and-gold illustrations. In #2, WSC, the shepherd still does not know this is a wolf when he kills him. #4, FG, has a good new moral: A fool often despises what he can't get. The woman with eye problems (#5) is rich and makes a point of having witnesses to the original deal that she would pay only for restored eyesight. The best illustrations are for #8: first a laughing heifer and then a laughing ox. It has the proverbial moral He who laughs last laughs best. The surprising moral of #10, The Lion in Love, is Even the wise can be made foolish by love. GGE (#11) shows fourteen golden eggs in a bowl. MM (#12) has as its moral Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
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Identifier
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897990838
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3088 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Dandelion Press Inc.,
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New York
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Subject
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PZ8.2.W677 Ae 1979
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole