Franklin Wit: First Edition (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover_boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 5.25"x7.25". 236 pgs. 2nd Printing. Yellow hardboards w/silver metallic lettering on spine. Jacket illustration by David Levine. Book design by Barbara DuPree Knowles. Foreword by David Eisenhower. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped. POGI on first fly paper. Surface cracking in gutter on front 1.5" long. A treasury of over 900 quotations spoken by the first "American" as well as numerous entertaining anecdotes about his adventures and misadventures, making it the fourth in the WIT & WISDOM series from RHVP. Covering everything from Sage Sayings to Franklin Fables, it even incudes a time line of Franklin's life and the world around him. Goodreads 3.94. …

Hard cover. First edition. 32 p. : ill.; 19 cm. Typophiles monograph; 50. Typophile monograph; no. 50. Includes Illustrations. In verse. "Privately printed." "This keepsake is published as a souvenir of the celebration of Printing Week in New York, 1957, the 251st anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, printer." "Designed by Lewis F. White.illustrations are wood. Very good. lightest of shelfwear, near fine, no ownership marks.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1ST ED, 2ND PRT. Wit & wisdom from a founding father- BEN FRANKLIN. 96pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ price=clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. As new with minimal wear. From private collection of former book reviewer. ; 6.45 X 5.50 X 0.90 inches; 236 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound at the printing office Williamsburg in Virginia. 62 pages, illustrated. Minor wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW, first edition, tan cloth over boards w dark red font on cover and spine, 406 pps, bibliography, index. Blemishless condition, uncut dust wrapper which is now mylar protected. Gift quality. Please see our photo to confirm condition notes. Out of print. Advise on the choice of a mistress and other previously unpublished private writings by Franklin, along with some well known witticisms. Victor Volk (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Near VG DJ (1 tiny edge chip). New York: Hastings House, 1975. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Handsome armorial bookplate. No remainder mark. Dust Jacket is price-clipped. Illustrated. From the Dust Jacket: "Here is the first book that brings together all the witty sallies and wise counsel that made Franklin our original American humorist. Franklin had such verbal felicity in letter-writing and conversation that women highly cherished his friendship." Includes Franklin's advice on the choice of a mistress. This was in a private letter to a young man and the public of his day never saw it. It is reproduced here unabridged. Bibliography. Index. Original cream-colored cloth, lettered in maroon. Keywords: Poor Richard's Almanac, Richard Saunders . 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near VG DJ (1 tiny edge chip). 8vo. 406pp. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed).…

First Edition. Hard cover with dj. 8vo. Clean, crisp, as new condition. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This offering is a pair of vintage wit wisdom and wisecrack books by two of America's more revered authors, Both books published by Peter Pauper Press and both have dust jackets. Ben Franklin's Wit & Wisdom has decorations by Joseph Crawhall and no date of publication is given. The price on the dust jacket flap is $1.25 . The book is 4 1/2" by 7 3/8" and has 62 pages. It's a hard cover book in very good condition and has a dust jacket that is in good + condition. Mark Twain Wit and Wisecracks has been decorated by Henry R. Martin and it was published in 1961 and has the number line of a First Edition. The book is 4 1/2" by 7 1/2" and has 61 pages as well. Both the book and its dust jacket are in very good + condition. They both appear to be Fist editions though they're not stated as such. Both books would make great little gifts . . . meaningful yet interesting. You won't pay an arm and a leg . . . but they're not free either. Thank you. Joseph Crawhall, Henry R. Martin (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by editor. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition white boards, red cloth spine, and blue spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Paul M. Zall; Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr., Preface by Paul M. Zall; Appendix: Sources and Resources; and About the Editor. "George Washington laughing? That the venerable Father of Our Country, the austere and unfailingly honest leader of historical record and legend, had a penchant for tall tales and crafty quips seems unthinkable to most Americans, even today. In The Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers, historian and scholar Paul Zall shatters the sober image of American icons George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin to reveal - and celebrate - their natural bent for incisive, spirited humor. With ample quotes from personal correspondence and private mnemoirs, Zall peers behind the staid and serious facade of our first three presidents and demonstrates how each strove to suppress his sense of mirth to maintain a dignified public reputation. By lifting the curtain on our Founding Fathers as they engage in practical jokes and regale friends with humorous stories, Zall opens a window on their personalities otherwise obscured by our preconceptions of them as larger-than-life historical figures. While Franklin's humor and wisdom is legendary thanks to his authorship of Poor Richard's Almanac, readers will be surprised to learn that Washington had a penchant for biting sarcasm; that Adams engaged in direct, colloquial, even vulgar, humor; and that Jefferson, our most cerebral president, enjoyed laughing at the absurdity of his own situation as leader of the nation. With an introduction by noted humorist Roy Blount Jr., The Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers is bound to raise some eyebrows around the Supreme Court when it comes to arguments about the Original Intent of our forebears, while offering all of us a welcome break from the divisive inanity of today's political squabbling." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "The Founding Fathers on Politics: On Campaigning: *** Half the truth is often a great lie. *** The first mistake in public business, is the going into it. On Congress: *** A bill can be easily corrected by making every word a 'said' or 'aforesaid,' and saying everything over two or three times, so that nobody but we of the craft can untwist the diction, and find out what it means. ***That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. On the Electorate: ***He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. ***Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. *** No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear - excerpt from the rear outer dust jacket. Louie, Lorraine (jacket design); Metzger, Michael (cover art) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Glassine cover. Tight, sound, unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A superb copy in a Mylar dj cover.

Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine. Published as a souvenir of The Celebration of Printing Week in New York, 1957.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Publisher's full green cloth, silver lettering on spine, publisher's medallion blind-stamped on cover, t.e.g. (gray). Head and heel of spine very slightly worn, else fine. Unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (vi), 154 pp.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Light toning on panel edges. Small closed tear on bottom front panel.; 64 pages.

First edn. 8vo, pp. 154. VG in somewhat chipped and torn dj. Quotes from F.D.R. on a variety of topics.

First edn. 8vo, pp. 154. A nice copy. Quotes from F.D.R. on a variety of topics.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Tape at spine crown. 1 inch open tear at top of rear flap fold.; 8.3 X 5.4 X 1.6 inches; 406 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket.; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 64 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Good price clipped dust jacket. Soiling along front flap fold.; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 64 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Two similar volumes. Quarter bound in black cloth over boards. Each has a brief inscription from the artist John DePol in August 1957 to the printer John Ryder. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).