Picturesque Word Origins from Webster's New International Dictionary with Forty-Five Illustrative Drawings
by G & C Merriam
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Springfield, MA: G & C Merriam Company, 1933 G & C Merriam Company, Springfield, MA. c1933. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light wear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine and front board; black tree on front board. 134 pp 8vo oblong. Back of almost every word in the English language there is a "life story" that will come to the average reader as a fascinating revelation. Our words have come to us from sources and in ways that will prove most surprising to anyone who has not before discovered the delights of tracing words back to their origins. This book offers merely a taste of the wonders of word origins. Its purpose is to demonstrate the extraordinary interest of a subject that has always hidden behind the forbidding name etymology. Beautiful pen and ink illustrations to accompany the black and red lettering for each explanation. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016131
- Title
- Picturesque Word Origins from Webster's New International Dictionary with Forty-Five Illustrative Drawings
- Author
- G & C Merriam
- Illustrator
- Louis Szanto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G & C Merriam Company
- Place of Publication
- Springfield, MA
- Date Published
- 1933
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- words, language, word derivations, etymology, grammar, spelling, word meanings, English language, word derivations, dictionary,
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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