The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language
by Thatcher, Virginia S.; Alexander Mcqueen, Eds
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0517328763
- ISBN 13
- 9780517328767
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About This Item
Chicago, Consolidated Book Publishers, 1980. Very Good/Unknown. Quarto, hardcover, near fine; all edges in gilt, gilt lettering on black buckram boards. Deluxe edition. 972 pp. plus Includes a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms and 12 Supplements (popular quotations, mythology, foreign words, authors' manual, secretaries' guide, business law, finance, names and meanings, flags, presidents of US through Reagan, story of America in pictures); B/W and Color illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44799
- Title
- The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language
- Author
- Thatcher, Virginia S.; Alexander Mcqueen, Eds
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517328763
- ISBN 13
- 9780517328767
- Publisher
- Chicago, Consolidated Book Publishers, 1980
- This edition first published
- May 27, 1981
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- Buckram
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