Search Results: Proverbs

Kansas City: Andrews Mcmeel Publishing. Very Good; Writing Inside the Front Cover. 2000. Hardback. 0740710141 . 384 pages .

New York: Penguin Studio, c1997. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. Robert Leahy (photos). 86p., illus.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. Paperback. Like New. 8x5x0. Binding firm, cover shiny, interior clean and unmarked. Reprint.

Bloch Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 246 pages. Ex-Bangor Theological Seminary Library (never checked out) ; some fading of cloth of cover; otherwise unmarked, clean, bright, tight copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House, c1997. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 111p. Inscribed by the author to someone. Includes recipes for fortune cookies and many proverbs

Word Publishing, 1988. Hardcover. Proverbs; Psalms, Meditation. Reflections of the songs and sayings in Scripture. (242 Pgs.) Owner's gift inscription on cover page. Otherwise BOOK & DJ NEAR VVG

London: Kyle Cathie Limited. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good + condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 273 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

London: John Murray. 1996. 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 . Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Black & white illustrations. 119 pages. A selection from Publisher, John Murray's legendary collection of sayings, quotes, proverbs etc. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.

[ New York ]: Privately Printed, 1961. First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Quarto, 357 pages, red cloth; lacks the leaves preceding p. i - including the title-page, limitation page (1050 copies ), front hinge broken. A heavy book. Col. de Guinzbourg was with the Military Staff of the United Nations. He solicited these international proverbs from the representatives to the United Nations. Multi-lingual texts by way of reproducing facsimiles of the responses Guinzbourg requested. Many of these proverbs are related to diplomacy and diplomatic practices.

7 pics-unread book from closed store; NO remainder marks; clean & shiny w/some wear to corners; spine uncreased; binding tight; pages pristine; no marks or tears

New York: Philisophical Library, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 91 p.p. Paper Boards. Scratching to corners and ends of dust-jacket. Small tears to corners of dust-jacket as well. Bumping to extremities of boards. Inscription to rear endpaper. Bookplate by C.B. Farrar to front endpaper. Otherwise clean, a fine copy of book.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Unbound signatures. [2], 290 pp. A few small stains to verso of last page. Fine overall.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2003. 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. x, 422 pages. Part cross-cultural study, part literary criticism, and part anthology. The author anyalyses the similarities, differences, and contradictions in cultural norms about gender expressed in thousands of proverbs from over 150 countries. Organised by categories and includes endnotes and index. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Hardcover. Very Good. 5" x 6.5" [n.d., ca. 1910?]. Unpaginated, [44 p.p.] Tan paper boards with gilt and purple lettering and illustrations. Darkening to edges of boards and spine, bumping to spine ends, a few spots to rear board. Illustrated endpapers. Forty days worth of reflections on topics such as forgiveness, purity, temptation, service, discipline, solitude, endurance, strength, hope, and more by a variety of authors including St. Francis of Assisi, Marcus Aurelius, Longfellow, Tennyson and others.

London: Frank Palmer, 1913. illust. board covers, very good . London: illust board covers, very good 1913

London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1915. illust. board covers very good . London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward illust board covers very good 1915 selected by Miss K Amy Turner & MWM Petrovich

Edinburgh: James Thin / The Mercat Press,. Hardback. 92pp. Delightful book of Scots' proverbs which contain all the wit, folk wisdom and inherent contradictions you would expect. A-Z compendium plus highly readable introduction, a note on informal expressions of greeting, and a short collection of English sayings with their equivalent in Scots. Dust wrapper is very lightly sunned to edges and has a few finger marks to orange areas. Very slightly bumped to top of spine. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed. Near fine copy in very good dust wrapper . Hardback. 1981.

New York: Philosophical Library, Inc, 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. Special abridged edition. xvii, 106 p.p. Grey paper boards with black lettering to spine. Sunning head and foot of boards. Dust jacket has sunning to spine and edges, a few chips and tears, bumping to spine head. The present small volume is an especially abbreviated edition of selected aphorisms by George Santayana, who was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

New York & London: First Edition, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without dj. Octavo; xvii, 436 pages, green cloth Issued in the Garland Folklore Bibliographies series. "The present volume ... is itself a major bibliographical achievement, consisting of almost half as many entries as were contained in the first volume. Together, the two volumes constitute the principal means of access to modern proverb scholarship. ... [Prof. Mieder's] succnict but consistently lucid annotatioins of each and every item make it possible for the scholar in search of references to evaluate the potential utility of a given citation." - Editor's Preface.

-, 1965.. Orig.kartoniert.. Herausgeber: ROCHE Deutsche Hoffmann - La Roche AG.,Grenzach/Baden. Einbände angestoßen, angeschmutzt u. leicht stockfleckig. Band II mit starken Flecken auf rückwärtigem Einband u. zwei Blättern. Zahlreiche s/w Abbildungen u. Textbeiträge. Gebrauchsspuren.