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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1972. Hardbound. Sixteenth printing. Condition: Fine (like new). Dust Jacket condition: Very Good hardboard slipcase with gold pastedown of title and author on cover and spine. Illustrated throughout with b/w original drawings by the author. 84 pp. Clean, like new crisp leaves on faux parchment. The only marking is a prior owner dedication on the front free endpaper. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. It is one of the best selling books of all time and has never been out of print. The condition of this book is pristine and gift worthy.

Grolier Incorporated, New York, 1955. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine, like new. No dust jacket issued. 1278 pp. in two volumes Text is clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. A timeless compilation of famous writings and musings of nearly 400 philosophers from around the globe. According to the author, "philosophy is the search for the indefinable."