Aesop's Fables
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Aesop
Leaf, Anne Sellers
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1952
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Cuddliness is everything here. A dozen fables. I will keep at least one copy of each version in the collection. Notice the price rise from the third ($.29) to the fourth ($.59) version: over double! I may be fooled completely on the sequence of versions. I tried to work off of prices. The third version has on its title-page: Edition of MCMLVIII. The first edition alone has a two-page spread on the opening and closing endpapers. The others present the title-page immediately after one endpaper. The four versions present an array of contrasting features, including different covers and titles: Famous Book-Elf Books, Famous Elf Books, Tip-Top Elf Books, and Elf Books. Better than the later reprints of the identical illustrations in The Rand McNally Book of Favorite Nursery Classics (1952/61). Here is an account of the various versions I have found. First version (#46325) for $2 at Renaissance, Summer, '89. Extra in less good condition for $1, Nov., '90, and another in better condition but with less good printing for $2.50 from Aardvark, SF, Jan., '91. Second version (#8440) for $1 at Hamburg Antique Mall, May, '94. Extra copy for $2 from Pacific Junction, Jan., '95. Third version (#1019) a gift of Mary Pat Ryan, Nov., '97. Version 3.5 is a Tip-Top Elf Book for $.29, like version 3, but it bears the number 8615, like version 4. It says Edition of MCMLXI. It came from Nerman's Books, Winnipeg, Canada for $3 through Bibliofind, Oct., '98. Version 3.8 is entirely the same, except that it lacks the 1961 date on the title-page. It cost $1 at the Antiques Mall, Pacific Junction, Iowa, April, '98. Fourth version (#8615) a gift of Dee Yost, Hastings, Aug., '95. Extra copy in poor condition for $3 from Lee Temares at Baltimore Antiquarian Fair, Aug., '91.
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Rand McNally & Company
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