Beasts

NY: Doubleday & Co. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1976. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. 184 pages; Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Soft bump bottom corner tip. One line store stamp to lower front fly-leaf. Solid binding and hinges. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. If thou wert the Lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by the ass, if thy wert the ass, thy dullness would torment thee and still thou livedst but as a breakfast to the wolf - what beast couldst thou be, that were not subject to a beast? .