8vo. [4], v-xl, [4], 165, [1], [10], [4] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with one full-page engraving. Translated by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson (with an essay by the translator). First Printing of the first Modern Library Edition, as per Toledano. Several underlinings in pen, otherwise close to Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a small scratch to the rear panel. Seller Inventory # 00005494

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Title: The Praise of Folly

Publisher: The Modern Library [1962], New York

Publication Date: 1962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First edition thus.

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