Hesitant Wolf & Scrupulous Fox: Fables Selected from World Literature

Large 8vo. xxiii (i), 327 (1) pp. First Edition, 1973. Price clipped. Only the faintest wear external, else, Pristine. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white, and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Beige cloth with decorative illustration on front, and brown lettering to spine. Illustrated dust Jacket in removable acetate protector. b&w frontis, forward, introduction by Karen Kennerly, Part I. 1. Cynical Fables in Which We Are Doomed No Matter How Exemplary Our Behavior May Be; 2. Fables of GFables Which Make Social and Political Statements; 5. Variant Plays on the same Fables; 6. Fables Juxtaposed to Display Various Aspects of Fabulous Animals; 7. Various Oral and Literary Modes Which Narrate Fables; 8. Fables Couched in Other Literary Forms. Part II. "Fables Are a Succession of Changes"; biographical ntes on the Fabulists, index. Size: Large Octavo.