[BARTLETT's] Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, Eleventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Published by P. F. Collier & Son Corporation [c.1940s], New York, 1940
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Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA)
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Stated eleventh edition of the much-consulted reference, which allows the reader to trace the origins of commonly-used phrases. With list of authors at front of volume and lengthy index of key words at rear of book. Edited by Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett, with prefaces by Morley and Nathan Haskell Dole. This work originally published by Little, Brown and Company and reprinted in this P. F. Collier edition. Possibly published c.1940s, though 1937 date appears in book. --- This hefty work in full pebbled burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped cover & spine titling, with decorations in red and blue and with six raised spine bands; textblock edges stippled in red. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A tightly-bound, well-preserved copy but with slight wear to cover extremities. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xlviii, 1578 pages.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- [BARTLETT's] Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, Eleventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged
- Author
- BARTLETT, John (original compiler); MORLEY, Christopher, EVERETT, Louella D. (editors)
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier & Son Corporation [c.1940s], New York
- Publication year
- 1940
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- >>Reference Books, Dictionaries, Translators
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