Excerpt: ...that in Sennaar people probably said what they thought when they conversed. "You'd better go to Sennaar, then, yourself, Mr. Potiphar," said my wife, as she smoothed her rumpled feathers. "'Pon my word, madam, it's my own opinion," replied I. Kurz Pacha, who is a philosopher (of the Sennaar school), asks me if people have no ideas of their own in building houses. I answer, none, that I know of, except that of getting the house built. The fact is, it is as much as Paul Potiphar can do, to make the money to erect ...
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Excerpt: ...that in Sennaar people probably said what they thought when they conversed. "You'd better go to Sennaar, then, yourself, Mr. Potiphar," said my wife, as she smoothed her rumpled feathers. "'Pon my word, madam, it's my own opinion," replied I. Kurz Pacha, who is a philosopher (of the Sennaar school), asks me if people have no ideas of their own in building houses. I answer, none, that I know of, except that of getting the house built. The fact is, it is as much as Paul Potiphar can do, to make the money to erect his palatial residence, and then to keep it going. There are a great many fine statues in my house, but I know nothing about them: I don't see why we should have such heathen images in reputable houses. But Mrs. P. says: "Pooh! have you no love for the fine arts?" There it is. It doesn't do not to love the fine arts; so Polly is continually cluttering up the halls and staircases with marble, and sending me heavy bills for the same. When the house was ready, and my wife had purchased the furniture, she came and said to me: "Now, my dear P., there is one thing we haven't thought of." "What's that?" "Pictures, you know, dear." "What do you want pictures for?" growled I, rather surlily, I am afraid. "Why, to furnish the walls; what do you suppose we want pictures for?" "I tell you, Polly," said I, "that pictures are the most extravagant kind of furniture. Pshaw! a man rubs and dabbles a little upon a canvas two feet square, and then coolly asks three hundred dollars for it." "Dear me, Pot," she answered, "I don't want home-made pictures. What an idea! Do you think I'd have pictures on my walls that were painted in this country?-No, my dear husband, let us have some choice specimens of the old masters. A landscape by Rayfel, for instance; or one of Angel's fruit pieces, or a cattle scene by Verynees, or a Madonna of Giddo's, or a boar hunt of Hannibal Crackkey's." What was the use of fighting against this sort of thing? I told her to have it her...
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Add this copy of The Potiphar Papers to cart. $5.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2016 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Add this copy of The Potiphar Papers to cart. $8.00, good condition, Sold by DogStar Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lancaster, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1856 by Harper & Brothers.
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Good. 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 214 pages; 1856 Harper & Brothers HC rebound in heavy buckram cloth. Deaccessioned from college library collection; call lettering to spine, bookplate to front pastedown and checkout slip inside rear cover. Binding tight and contents clean and complete. Includes illustrations. A snug and neat though rebound copy; very suitable as a reading or research copy. Good.
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Good+ Book Inked name title pg, clean text. 2" break to cloth at lower frontjoint, some age-holes back joint. Still tight wood engravings. good+, no dj, gold-stamped embossed brown cloth. Edgewear 214 pgs.
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Hoppin, A. Good. No dust jacket. Book Condition: Fair-good. Missing front end page. Chip on top of cover spine. Cracking in spine inside front cover. Soil spots throughout.
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Art by A. Hoppin. Near Fine. No Jacket. 36650 shelf. Cosmos series. Gold-stamped embossed green cloth. Aged endpapers. Tiny bookplate verso front cover. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. Vintage edition circa 1890. With ads. Nice sturdy white paper 60 pgs.
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Good. First edition, 1853, hardcover with brown cloth boards, octavo, 251pp., illustrated in b&w. Book good with chipping to spine ends, mild wear to corners, rubbing, binding tight, chapter one has some underlining and marginalia, otherwise text clean and unmarked with some foxing. No DJ.
Add this copy of The Potiphar Papers. to cart. $18.93, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2012 by Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana.
