Author: PASCAL, BLAISE
Title: Pensées and the Provincial Letters (Modern Library #164. 3)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1960]. Hardcover. The multi-talented 17th century Frenchman (inventor of an early mechanical calculator) wrote these two treatises on faith. "Pensées" translated from the French by W.F. Trotter, "Provincial Letters" by Thomas M'Crie; introduction by Saxe Commins. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 393 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1960 (though 1941 date appears in book). ML #164.3. --- A well-preserved copy: tightly-bound and unmarked though with a little dulling to cover gilding. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) with sizeable chips & tears at spine ends & extremities, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xvi, 620, (4, ads) pages. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket .

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