Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine)
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Carryl, Guy Wetmore
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1899
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A real find. Maybe the best wit goes into the titles, like The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl. The wit in the rhyming texts sometimes gets lost in particulars unknown to us. The Confiding Peasant and the Maladroit Bear may be the funniest. The five illustrations are only satisfactory, and the frontispiece is missing in the Delavan 1899 printing. It is present in the somewhat stained but otherwise good Bucklin 1899 printing. It is also present in the water-stained extra from 1904. I will keep all three copies in the collection.
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Harper & Brothers Publishers
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3351 (Access ID)