Quotations
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Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life
by H. Jackson Brown
Hardback. New. The #1 New York Times bestseller---now in a fresh new format, offering a new generation simple yet powerful wisdom. The Life's Little Instruction Book series has sold more than ten million copies, spent more than two years atop the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 33 languages.
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£12.74
The Wisdom of China: The Sayings of Confucius, Mencius Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jarvis, Maggie. 16mo. Original pictorial jacket and matching cloth. 62 p.p. Illustrated. Light sunning to jacket and inner flaps. Front inner flap clipped. Jacket lightly rubbed with tiny tears at spine head. Light rubbing to boards. Some sporadic stains to margins incl. p.p. 40-41, otherwise interior clean. Very good with a very good jacket.
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£11.92
Completely Lost For Words - Creative Massages For All Occasions
by Kathy Schmidt and Louise Jourdan
New Holland, Australia, 2009. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. urn your cards into keepsakes with these inspiring and personal messages. You'll never be lost for words with these greetings to suit every occasion. This book gives you the chance to send your loved ones a message they will remember. 96 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Reference::Quotations; Reference; ISBN/EAN: 9781741107401. Inventory No: 242951.. 9781741107401
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£3.69
The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
by Lemon, Mark
Cambridge: Sever and Francis, 1865. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Original green cloth boards with gilt illustration stamped on front cover. T.e.g. viii, 389 p.p., with [8] p.p. ads. Frontispiece vignette by Charles Keene. Features over one thousand humorous sayings, anecdotes, and epigrams. Name plate of Frank M. Hosier on front pastedown, and bookplate of C.B. Farrar on verso of front free endpaper. Bubbles on front and rear boards. Small perforation to upper rear board. Rubbing to edges and...
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£59.59
Aforismes Catalans. Utils a Tota Clase De Personas
by Amat., Joan Carlos
Manresa: Imprenta y Llibreria Pau Roca, 1864. Soft cover. Good. 3" x 6.6" Catalan. Blue paper wraps, sewn binding. Slim, small 8vo. 24 p.p. Unopened at head. Wraps have detached from binding. Wraps discoloured and chipped at edges. Ink annotation to foot of front cover.
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£148.98
Immortality
by Van Dyke, Henry
New York: Barse and Hopkins. Soft cover. Good. 3.75" x 7.25" [N.d., ca. 1910s] Original printed card wraps, cord binding. Unpaginated. Colour frontis tipped in. Short tear to head of front joint, bumping and darkening to extremities, a few damp stains.
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£29.79
Cat's Cradle A Selection of Poems and Quotations
by Nicholas, Anna [Compiled by]
Kent Town SA: Axiom Books. 1994. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour illustrations. 48 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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£10.54
The Rule of Life: in Select Sentences, Collected from the greatest Authors, Antient and Modern
by (Sampson, Thomas)
London: Printed and Sold by S. Austen, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 18mo. Previously rebound in marbled paper, contemporary leather and gilt spine label laid down. xi, 335. Light damp staining to top and fore edges, heavier to last 10 pp. of text. Ink owner inscription to ffep. Early ownership quotes to p. 335v. A very good+ copy. Quotes on hope, fear, anxiety, passion, friendship, and the "whole picture of human life." With quotes from Descartes, Cicero, Plutarch, Seneca, Epicurus, &c. "The...
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£297.95
I Love You This Much
Downers Grove, IL: Graphic Corporation, 1984 A book of quotes on love that is in as new condition. The cover shows a cat holding a heart.
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£3.27
Caustic Quips
by Sally Barnes [Compiled]
Brolga Publishing, Australia, 2007. Softcover. Very Good Condition. A collection of cutting quips; wicked putdowns and all manner of one-liners that you will wish you said. It is not meant to uplift or motivate - this is supposed to make you laugh. A lot. Size: Small Octavo. 378 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Humour; Humour; Reference::Quotations. ISBN/EAN: 9781921221361. Inventory No: 268592.. 9781921221361
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£5.27
John Law's Book of Irreverent Logic
by John Laws
Pan, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£11.65
The Hand of History: An Anthology of Quotes and Commentaries
by Leventhal, Michael (Editor)
Greenhill Books, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 2011 Greenhill Books, Elstree, Hertfordshire. Hardcover has blue textured paper-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations by Chris Riddell. 174 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has a few small edges wrinkles and two very small...
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£8.16
Baturrillo de paremiologia, o Tratado de frases celebres, apotegmas proverbiales y refranes, con aplicacion a las ciencias y en especial a la agricultura
by Ventue y Peralta, Benito (collected by)
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. With the bookplate of proverb collector Victor de Guinzbourg.
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£51.02
Wit and Wisdom in Dynamic Psychotherapy
by Bauer, Gregory P. (Edited by)
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc.. 1990. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. xiv, 307 pages. A treasure trove of quotes about psychotherapy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£15.81
Fowl Play
by Don Donovan
New Holland Publishers, New Zealand, 2005. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Following the success of Woolly Wisdom and Chewing the Cud, this new title makes a welcome addition to the flock of small, but attractively packaged gift books with international appeal. Fowl Play's deliberately cliched, but perennially popular quotations, set alongside a range of amusing, full-colour photographs of hens, chicks and roosters in situ - serves up some humorous, yet intelligent observations on life. Quantity...
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£2.11
Canadian Quotations and Phrases, Literary and Historical
by Hamilton, Robert M
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Full navy cloth. Spine cocked, some foxing to cloth, worse at tail edges. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, chipped to spine head, some edge wear and short tears, toned and stained to rear cover. This book comprises the first collection of Canadian quotations ever to be compiled. The result of many years of extensive research, it contains 3500 quotations collected from books, magazines, newspapers, speeches, and...
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£23.84
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
by Enright, Dominique
London: Michael O'Mara. Fine+ with no dust jacket. (2011). Revised Edition. Hardcover. 1843175657 . Book is as new. No ownership or other marks. Not a remainder. Appears to be new. ; The Wicked Wit Of Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages .
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£8.98
Mark Twain and the Government
by Petersen, Svend [Editor]
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Orig. beige cloth, 146pp. A small bump to foot of spine, o/w near fine in a very good but soiled d/w, with tears to jackets edges and extremities. A collection of quotes from Mark Twain on Americanism, Government, Morals, Truth, Politicians and many more insights.
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£26.82
Rivers of Thought
by Martin Buxbaum
RIVERS OF THOUGHT
~ Martin Buxbaum HC/DJ ILLUSTRATED - Verse / POETRY -
Published by World Publishing Company 1960
Almost sixty years after his thoughts were written, they remain a river of comfort to all who read them.". Details :This is a great little book of verse. The author's facsimile signature is printed on the last page.
~ Martin Buxbaum HC/DJ ILLUSTRATED - Verse / POETRY -
Published by World Publishing Company 1960
Almost sixty years after his thoughts were written, they remain a river of comfort to all who read them.". Details :This is a great little book of verse. The author's facsimile signature is printed on the last page.
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£27.76
A Quart of Oysters, and other Bon Mots of Bon Homme Richard
by Franklin, Benjamin
New York: Privately Printed, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. Orig. yellow paper boards. 55 pp. Woodcut illustrations and decorative initials by John De Pol. Fine. This is a small but highly selective collection of Franklin's writings. They are filled with wry observations, dry humor, devastating hoaxing, inventive bamboozling; reverence where Godliness and right living were concerned; irreverence for England's Majesty; affectionate love and sly wit. This keepsake is the nineteenth in The...
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£14.90
Australian Theatre. Backstage with Graeme Blundell
by Blundell, Graeme
Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. xiii, 250 pages. A selection of almost 300 anecdotes about Australian theatre from its origins in the 1790s to the era of Bryan Brown, Barry Humphries and John Bell. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£7.90
Vision
by Dan Zadra
Compendium Inc, USA, 2006. Hardcover (Printed Boards). As New/As New. Size: Small Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Reference::Quotations; Self Help & Motivation; Self Help. ISBN: 1932319409. ISBN/EAN: 9781932319408. Inventory No: 258519. . 9781932319408
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£3.69
Sayings Of The Century
by Rees, Nigel
Great Britain: Guild Publishing. 1985. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine a little faded. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 270 pages. A portrait of the 20th century through the quotable words of the notable and interesting people who lived it. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.
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£9.49
Scotland's Year Book
by Copping, Rev. Bernard [compiler]
Scotland Congregational Church, 1904. Soft cover. Fine. 6" x 9.5" Orig. grey card wraps. Bound at head with glue and punched with string. Unpaginated, [58 pp.]. Age toning to extremities. A collection of "one a day" quotes and short poetry passages. Printed in 1904 but not specifically dated to any calendar year.
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£29.79
