Eureka Books

Grigson, Geoffrey (editor)

The Faber Book of Epigrams & Epitaphs

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.....

Price: $50.00

Item #137039 Baturrillo de paremiologia, o Tratado de frases celebres, apotegmas proverbiales y...

Ventue y Peralta, Benito (collected by)

Baturrillo de paremiologia, o Tratado de frases celebres, apotegmas proverbiales y refranes, con aplicacion a las ciencias y en especial a la agricultura

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.....

Price: $50.00

[Fitzgerald, Edward]

Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

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.....

Price: $200.00

Item #89661 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs...

John Bartlett

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)

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.....

Price: $20.00

Item #77031 Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs (11th ed., rev....

Bartlett, John; Chistopher Morley (editor)

Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs (11th ed., rev. and enl.)

Little, Brown and co, January 1937. Hardcover.

Price: $10.00