Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover. 1347 pages. About 6-3/4 by 9-1/2 inches. Quotes pertaining to alphabetically organized subjects. Ninth printing, January 1976. A very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Former owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper.
Oxford U Press, January 1979. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
See Sharp Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. This oversize book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, law, labor, capitalism, anarchism, women, religion, the arts, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains an index, capsule biographies, and dozens of cartoons and illustrations. Hundreds of.....
Faber & Faber, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 291 pages. Over 700 entries from the sixteenth century to modern times. First paperback edition (first printing). A very good copy in wrappers (paperback). Provenance: Acquired from the estate of the singer, songwriter, and poet Rod McKuen, who sold millions of books.....
Tip. de Calixto Alvarez Lozano, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 207 pages. Quotations, proverbs, and sayings, mostly translated into Spanish from other languages. First edition (first printing). Minor staining to pages, else a very good copy in a period binding of quarter calf over decorated paper. Original wrappers not bound in.....
William Pickering, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. cxlvi pages. 5-1/2 by 7 inches. The second book by Edward FitzGerald, best known for translating the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This is an anonymously published collection of aphorisms. 'I meant it to be the best little book of its kind extant. I am.....
Little, Brown and Company, November 2002. Hardcover. First published in 1855, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely updated and revised for the seventeenth edition by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This 17th edition, under Kaplan's splendid direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to.....
Little, Brown and co, January 1937. Hardcover.