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        Title                
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                                    en_US
                                The Tails Book: A Modern Bestiary
                                                            
        
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        Description                
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                                    en_US
                                This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
                                                            
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                                    en_US
                                First printing
                                                            
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                                    en_US
                                By Graham Carey
                                                            
        
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        Creator                
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                                    en_US
                                Carey, Graham
                                                            
        
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        Contributor                
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                                    en_US
                                Dahl, Francis
                                                            
        
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        Date                
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                                2016-01-25T19:50:53Z
                                                            
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                                    en_US
                                2007-05
                                                            
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                                    en_US
                                1938
                                                            
        
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        Date Available                
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                                2016-01-25T19:50:53Z
                                                            
        
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        Date Issued                
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                                    en_US
                                1938
                                                            
        
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        Abstract                
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                                    en_US
                                This book was shaped by a wonderful whim, and I am including it in the collection on a whim.  It does not include a fable, but the wisdom it contains is so like the wisdom of fables that I want to hang onto this book for the next person who reads fables.  The book is about the variety of uses to which animals with tails put their tails.  It is a come to think of it book.  Until we think about it, we do not realize the wide variety of uses animals make of their tails.  Thus early chapters--each of a few pages, with an initial and one illustration--present the horse's fly-whisker, the cat's amusement, the porcupine's spear-thruster, the dog's smiler, the crocodile's club, and the peacock's way to attract a wife.  The book belonged to the Shadowbrook Library in Lenox.  This is not the first time that I have bought back a book that once belonged to a Jesuit library!
                                                            
        
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        Identifier                
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                                    en_US
                                6173 (Access ID)
                                                            
        
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        Language                
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                                    en_US
                                eng
                                                            
        
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        Publisher                
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                                    en_US
                                Sheed & Ward
                                                            
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                                    en_US
                                London
                                                            
        
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        Subject                
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                                    en_US
                                QL791.C3 1938
                                                            
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                                    en_US
                                Tangential
                                                            
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                                    en_US
                                Title Page Scanned
                                                            
        
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        Type                
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                                    en_US
                                Book, Whole