Written with an explanatory preface By Leo Rosten

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company (1972).

First edition, first printing.

Sectioned by themes and with five hundred categories--many freshly translated--this immense quotable treasure trove of 4,352 entries includes proverbs, folk sayings, witticisms, moralisms, flatteries, paradoxes, irony, philosophy, and so much more.

Great gift.

Fine in fresh black over fresh red linen with gilt embossed titles, borders and decorations to a black panel to the spine, black-and-white headband and tail-band, smoke-black end-papers, upper page edges smoke-black; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a barely perceptible minuscule tear to the lower front shelf-edge; original printed $10.95 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Thick octavo; 716 pages; appendices; index.

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