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Constable & Company Ltd, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 261 pages. Red and white dust jacket over blue cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light foxing overall.

HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus?* Date of Publication: 1947* Publisher: Constable and Company Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Boards heavily damp marked. ACC* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper, black titles on cerise ground with white frames to face and also to white spine strip. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 7/6d. Some shelf wear & slight losses to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Slightly aged end papers and edges. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, some notes & pencil marks totext, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 252 pp. text. xii pp., list of authors, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: An aphorism is defined as a pithy observation which contains a general truth or a concise, terse, laconic,… Read More