Erasmus Addlepate (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dust jacket light edgewear, moderate to heavy soiling to back cover, internally clean and sound.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rose, Carl (illustrator). Black cloth binding. Spine slightly cocked to the right, some very minor shelf-wear. Book itself in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. 107 pp. Illus. Spine, corners bum[ped. Black cloth boards, red lettering. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrations by Carl Rose. Written as criticism of Mortimer Adler's work 'How to Read a Book', this volume provides a comic parody of the work. It iopens with the line "for readers who cannot think" and includes chapters on "How to Read in Bed," "Catching on from the Title," and its own list of the Great Books including the Sears Roebuck Catalog, and the Telephone Directory. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ] Hardback, 12mo, appx 5 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches, x + 107 pages, VG+ in Good only dj (dj in new protective mylar). Book itself tight binding, very clean, no names, no writing, light tannng to edges of text block. DJ mostly clean with minor to moderate chipping edges, corners and ends (chip at head of spine affects "w" of first word of title). A parody of Mortimer Adler's popular but much-maligned "How To Read A Book." RWR5 Literature Literary Criticism Satire Sarcasm Sarcastic Humor Parody.

1940 Addlepate, Erasmus HOW TO READ TWO BOOKS NY: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1940 107pp, Illustrated Carl Rose sm 8vo Black cloth stamped in red Small ding lower edge of front gutter, light discoloration on endpapers, near fine hardcover in Very Good- d/j with minor shelfwear along the edges, some soiling on d/j panels.