About this title: This 17th edition, under Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan's direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2500 authors, 90 of whom are new to "Bartlett's". Newcomers include Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Kishner, Tammy Wynette, Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, Martin and Kingsley Amis, Mother Teresa and Jacques Cousteau, Rudolf Giuliani and Jerry Seinfeld, J.K. Rowling and Alfred Hitchcock. With quotations presented in chronological order, in the famous "Bartlett's" tradition, the book aims to give the reader a vast panorama of the world, from the ancient Egyptians to ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: See notes
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. This is an x-library book, but the only markings is a stamp on the title page. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear, great buy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: LITTLE BROWN & CO @
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good. Nice hardcover for its age. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and unmarked, with edge tanning. Light edge and corner wear. DJ shows wear and tear, creases. P/O name is inside front cover. Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
Date Published: 1968
Description: Good. This is a very nice hardcover copy. 1965 edition. Binding is tight and square. No names, no marks, no stickers. Text is clean and bright. DJ is VG. Pages are somewhat tan with age. read more
Description: Very Good. B000V8EM46 Fine dust jacket in plastic protective plastic cover. Dust jacket shows price clipped. Pages show slight wear. No highlighting. No underlining. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780316084604ISBN:0316084603
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Dark blue front board with gold decorative stamp and letters. Spine with gold decorative stamp and gilt letters. Half of free front end paper and free rear end paper is very slightly darkened. Pages slightly darkened. Jacket slightly worn. 1/2" tear on crown of spine. Back jacket cover has 1" tear at top and slight tear at top corner. Small folds on front flaps. 1, 750 pages. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Hardcover, Little, Brown, 1968, oversized, blue cloth cover has discolorations with corner wear, 1750 pages of text are very clean except one page is torn, spine is tight, ships within 24 hr. sky Q 5. read more
Edition: 8th Ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date Published: 1887
Description: Good. No dust jacket. No Dj, boards are green letters still clear. Boards and edge are a little soiled. Corners/spine are scuffed. Front and back board are loose, book is tied. Name inside, pg 570 tear, Dogear pg 300. Index of Authors front index back that is 200 pgs long. Clean copy, just some wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1955
Description: Clean, no marks in Good, mylar wrapped jacket. 13th/Centenial edition. Complete revised. A collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature. 1, 014 pp, indexed. Some tears to DJ, mylar wrapped. Turquoise cloth with red & gold label on spine. Light wear. read more
"It's really meant to be a reference book, but I read it straight through once. There is some great stuff in here. All of the noteworthy passages from Shakespeare, also a lot from the classical Greek and Roman writers, and the Bible."
"This isn't a book you read to finish, but I really like having it around for when I'm writing a paper and need a good quote, or just to look something up for my own knowledge."
"Don't ask me why, I have loved collecting quotes since a kid in Jr High. This was one of my all time favorite gifts for Christmas from my parents along with the Complete Works of Wm Shakespeare. Of course, the transistor radio was nifty, too!"
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