![]() Out of his admiration developed a story-cycle that must have grown into uncountable chapters before there was a written alphabet, let alone a printing press. Clever, these foxes! And man, the victim (after the pullet), could not withhold his admiration even while he totted up his losses (assuming that, by this time, he had made the equally epochal discovery that one and one make two). Not the first fox, but some uncounted descendant of the first fox, peered from cover at the first farm and found it good, and immediately thereafter the first theft of a pullet from a man-made roost initiated a chain of depredation whereof the links are still being forged. "The Story of Reynard the Fox probably goes back to man's first epochal awareness that he could make things grow in the ground and that he could force living creatures to do his bidding and to line his larder. Illustrated with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Also includes a new introduction by Edward Lazare. Translated by Thomas James Arnold from the original German poem Reineke Fuchs by J.W. All pages are in fine condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square. Also includes the original clear good condition onion skin dust wrapper. ![]() Fine condition beige and brown color illustrated boards/salmon cloth spine/maroon spine lettering. ![]()
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