Pearls of Wisdom
N/A, August 1987. Trade Paperback. Men take more pains to mask than to mend.--Benjamin Franklin. These and other sage words in a collection of the wisest sayings and most profound insights of our history.
N/A, August 1987. Trade Paperback. Men take more pains to mask than to mend.--Benjamin Franklin. These and other sage words in a collection of the wisest sayings and most profound insights of our history.
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.....
Folio Society, January 2003. Hardcover.
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.