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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and Phrases in Common Use (Author's Edition)
by BARTLETT, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0710010567
- ISBN 13
- 9780710010568
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1970s]. Hardcover. 0710010567 . An undated UK edition (likely c.1970s) of John Barlett's famous compilation of notable quotations. The phrases are grouped by author, such as William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson or Jonathan Swift. Includes a section of quotations from the Old and New Testaments. Key words indexed at back of volume. --- In rust cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in simple pale yellow typographic dust jacket. --- The typeface is rather small in this edition, with prior owner's embossed circular stamp half title page, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Jacket flap has been clipped, but the £2.00 net price is intact, and with a couple of tears at crease points; else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; viii, 524 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86248
- Title
- Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and Phrases in Common Use (Author's Edition)
- Author
- BARTLETT, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0710010567
- ISBN 13
- 9780710010568
- Publisher
- Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [c.1970s]
- Keywords
- 0710010567
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