Hachette Mini-Livres
- ABCMouse Aesop's Fables
- Acme Fabulas de Animales
- Aesop in Rhyme by Sigal Adler
- Aesop Patterns for Young Readers
- Aesop's Awesome Rhymes
- Aesop's Childhood Adventures
- Aesop's Fables Remixed
- Aesop's Foibles by Rabbi Dr. Walter Rothschild
- Aesop's Funny Fables
- Agyra (Agkyra) Paramythia tou Aisopou me Eikones
- Alphabet: L'Imagerie de Paris
- American Book Company New Education Readers
- Arowana Peacock Asian Series
- Auzou Les p'tits classiques
- Ballon: Il était une fois
- Basak Cocuk Turkish Comic Books
- Best in Children's Books
- Bestia
- Bias La Fontaine Pamphlets 1977
- Val Biro: Ginn and Company
- Val Biro: The Wright Group Fables from Aesop
- Val Biro: Award Publications
- Val Biro Award Publications Large Print 2013
- The Book of Knowledge 1941
- Book Trails
- Book World Publishing Bilingual Thai Pamphlets
- BrillKids Little Reader Storybook Series: Aesop's Fables
- Calligraphics' Facsimiles of Felix Lorioux' Illustrations
- Cantata Learning Aesop
- Capstone Far Out Fables
- Capstone Other Side of the Fable
- Carlson Fable Collection Catalogues
- Cassell's Illustrated Book of Fables with Illustrations by Gustave Doré
- Chick-fil-A "Aesop's Sticker Fun"
- Chick-fil-A "Between the Lions"
- Child's Play Flip Up Fairy Tales
- Child's World: Children's Illustrated Classics: Aesop's Fables
- Chinese Mini Kids Cinema
- Chouetteditions.com Fables de La Fontaine
- Classics Illustrated Junior
- Colección "mis fábulas"
- Colección 55
- Collection Tante Laura by Pellerin
- Combel Col-lecció Encunyats Classics
- Contes & Fables
- Contes et Fables d'Animaux
- Coquito Fábulas de Esopo
- Cottage Garside Readers
- Cottage TheatrePhonics Plays
- Creative Approaches to Language
- Denge Resimli La Fontaine Masallari
- Dharma Jataka Tale Series
- Dominie Collection of Aesop's Fables
- Dreamland Aesop's Fables
- Ediciones Toray 6 Fabulas
- Éditions I.P.C. des fables de La Fontaine vues par H. Fox
- El Gato de Hojalata Coleccion de Fabulas de Esopo
- El Libro de Oro de los Ninos
- Fables From Around the World
- Fables from the Stables
- Fables Illustrated by Stories from Real Life
- Fablio the Magician
- Fábulas de Ayer para Niños de Hoy
- Fábulas de Mayor a menor
- Fábulas de Mi País
- Fabulous Fables by OmKidz
- Forensic Fables by O
- Fox Fables Bilingual by Casey and Iago
- Fraggle Fables
- Gage Educational Publishing: Seven Fables from Aesop
- Gendas La Fontaine Masallari
- Goose Fables by Mantra Lingua
- Günes Hasan Ezop'tan Masallar
- Hachette Dore Subscription 1866 to 1868
- Hachette Les Albums Roses
- Hachette Mini-Livres
- Haddock Hirata Series
- Highlights for Children
- Hirata 2 in 1 Tales by Modern Unisystems
- Hot Dots Jr. Famous Fables
- Human Cultural Enterprise Company
- Imparo a Leggere
- B. Jain Pegasus Aesop's Fables
- Japanese World Masterpiece Anime Picture Books
- John Martin's Big Book
- Joie Hirata Series
- Krylov Miniknigi Miniatures
- L.K. Aesop's Story Korean
- La Fontaine's Cabinet
- LaGalera Fábulas
- Larousse 2014 Les Fables de La Fontaine
- Larousse 2015 Las Fábulas de La Fontaine
- Le Bestiaire du Capucin
- Le Petit Français Illustré
- Leo Fábulas
- Les Éditions Variétés: La Fontaine a Colorier
- Les Fables de la Poubelle
- Les petits secrets des Fables
- L'Illustrateur des Dames
- Lion Fables Bilingual by Jan Ormerod
- Lito Collection "Fabliaux"
- Lito 2016/17/21 Les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
- Contes de Ma Mère-Grand
- Madpac The Aesop's Fables Collection
- Magic Wagon Short Tales
- Mango Aesop's Fables
- McGuffey's Eclectic Reader
- Miles Kelly Aesop's Fables
- Mini Fables a Colorier
- My Book House (1920-28)
- My Book House (1937-71)
- My Kids World Preschool Moral Stories
- Nagaoka Shoten Square Fable Books
- Nathan Duos Classiques
- Nilsson Fables de La Fontaine racontées
- Onyx Translations
- Pellerin of Épinal
- Philips Livre-Disque Books & Records
- The Picture Treasury of World Fables
- P.M. Productions Aesop's Fables
- Protea Animal Tales (South Africa)
- Publications International Stories to Grow On
- Publications International Larger Stories to Grow On
- Publications International Tales of Virtue
- Raconte-moi…Jean de La Fontaine from Éditions Lito
- Readers Digest Young Families Famous Fables
- Readers Digest Hungary Tanulsagos Tortenetek
- Read-it! Readers
- Reinardus
- Sawan World Famous Aesop's Fables
- School Reading by Grades
- Seis Fabulas by Jacobo Ficher for Piano
- Shanti Large Print Aesop's Fables
- Shanti Large Print Tales from Panchatantra
- Shanti 22 Famous Aesop's Fables
- Shogo Hirata Joie Japanese Aesop Fables 1989
- Shree Book Aesop's Fables for Early Readers
- Sigmar Las Fabulas de Esopo
- Sommer-Time Classic Series
- Song Ngu Viet-Anh
- SVE Book Cassettes
- Tadpoles Tales
- Tales of Karadi the Bear
- Tales of Virtue
- Teacher Created Materials: Reader's Theater Booklets
- Teatro del Lector Booklets
- Thai Bilingual Pamphlets
- Thai Bilingual Reading Support Foundation
- Thai Center for Book Lovers Bilingual Series
- Timeless Fables
- Tormont Great Fairy Tales Treasure Chest
- Tormont Mini Treasure Chest of Great Fairy Tales
- Turkish Tales of Virtue
- Tyranno English (Korea)
- Tyranno English Workbooks
- Uncle Frank's Fables for Children
- Usborne My Reading Library Fables
- Vetaplast Oi Mythoi tou Aisopou
- White Star Kids
- Wonder House Short Stories from Panchatantra
- Young Folk's Library
- Young People's Stories
- Zambak Ezop Masallari
- Zeri Fables and Gunter's Fables
- 365 Successful Fables
Members of the series "Hachette Mini-Livres" have been a challenge to me. I have found four different members, ordered a fifth, and learned of two others. However, it may be that there are really only two booklets at issue here. What has caused the seven different items then? I believe that there are two reasons for this confusing multiplicity. One is that numbering systems changed at least once. Thus the two pamphlets titled "Quatre Fables" are the same but have a different number in the lower right corner of the title-page -- and were published in different years: #27 in 1964 AND #144 in 1967. The second source of confusion is that the same booklet was published with four fables (1967) and then with three (1971). For some reason, "The Fox and the Goat" drops out of the 1971 version, even though the goat still appears on the title-page! I have ordered another copy of the latter book, with a different number (#143, not #29). I am aware of a #189, which seems identical with #240, and of both #165 and #241, which seem identical with #144. My, how confusing!
1953/64 Quatre Fables de La Fontaine. Paperbound. Printed in Holland. Paris: Hachette Mini-Livres #27: Hachette. $5.99 from John Reid, North Brunswick, NJ, through eBay, Nov., '14. I had catalogued an almost identical book earlier but noted that its number in the series seemed to have changed. Here is a copy in which, though the booklet is not an original 1953 printing, the number has not yet changed from #27 to #144. Here is what I had written of that 1967 copy with the changed number: "Apparently a fellow member in the same series as 'Trois Fables de La Fontaine,' which I have listed under '1953/64.' The numbering has changed, however. That pamphlet was #29 but now seems to be #143. This pamphlet was perhaps #27 and is now #144. As in that case, there are exceptionally sharp colored illustrations in this small pamphlet. FC, MM, TT, and 'The Fox and the Goat.' Maybe the best of the designs is of Perrette skipping; the milk pail is already tipping." My statement of "perhaps #27" is confirmed! Though this copy is in less good condition, what I wrote then of the illustrations still applies here. My, what one finds when one stays at it! | ||||
1953/67 Quatre Fables de La Fontaine. Paperbound. Paris: Hachette Mini-Livres #144: Hachette. $10 from The Bookshop, Grand Junction, CO, through Choosebooks.com, Feb., '03.
| ||||
1953/1971 Trois Fables de La Fontaine. Paperbound. Paris: Hachette Mini-Livres #240: Hachette. $7.95 from Ronald Franz, Roseville, MI, through Ebay, Sept., '19. This surprising find has led me to reorganize our holdings of Hachette Mini-Livres presenting fables. Exceptionally sharp colored illustrations in this small pamphlet of FC, MM, and TT. Perrette was dancing when she lost the pitcher of milk. The tortoise in TT was carrying two pieces of luggage. The cover picture, which occurs again at the end of FC, gets my top prize. The jubilant smiling fox runs off with t he cheese. The anomaly here is that the pamphlet is identical with two others in the series, dated 1953/64 and 1953/67 except for the number in the series and the exclusion here of "The Fox and the Goat," even though the goat still appears on the title-page here! That is how "Quatre Fables de La Fontaine" became in this case "Trois Fables de La Fontaine." The content is utterly different from the other "Trois Fables de La Fontaine" in this series.
| ||||
1953/64 Trois Fables de La Fontaine. Hachette Mini-Livres #29. Printed in Holland. Paris: Hachette. $15 from Kelmscott, June, '95.
| ||||
1953/69 Trois Fables de La Fontaine. Paperbound. Paris: Hachette Mini-Livres #165: Hachette. €2.70 from Rakuten.fr, Oct., '19. Here is a copy of a pamphlet already in the collection with the number 29 from 1964. This otherwise identical copy has a date of 1969 and the number 165. Postage for this little booklet cost three times the cost of the booklet! As I wrote of the earlier copy, there are here exceptionally sharp colored illustrations in this small pamphlet of WL, "le Loup devenu berger," and MSA. At the end of the latter, the illustration has the miller, son, and ass dancing together.
|
|
end