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A DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE
by Fowler, H. W
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Livonia, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
The Clarendon Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. ; Published by The Clarendon Press, 1927 with statement: "This edition has been prepared especially for G. P. Putnam's Sons New York." Black flexible faux leather cover has wear to extremities but clean and overall in very good- condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Modest soiling to bottom page edge. Fore edge has thumbed index tabs in very good condition. Toning to marbled end sheets and paste downs. Front and rear paste downs are cracked. Pages are clean and in very good condition. ; 942 pages .
Synopsis
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by Henry W. Fowler, is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing. Ranging from plurals and literary technique to the distinctions among like words (homonyms, synonyms, etc. ), to foreign-term use, it became the standard for most style guides that followed — thus, the 1926 first edition remains in print despite the existence of the 1965 second edition, and the 1996 and 2004 printings of the third edition.
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- Bookseller
- Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3957
- Title
- A DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE
- Author
- Fowler, H. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Clarendon Press
- Date Published
- 1927
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