Selected Essays on English Usage
by Thomas Pyles
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
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About This Item
University Presses of Florida, 1979. 223pp. Original boards. Pages are clean (unmarked) but slightly age-toned. Binding is tight and secure. Boards have bumping to head/heel of spine, a few small bumps to edges, rubbing to corners. Unclipped DJ is sunned/finger soiled with very heavy rubbing/fraying to extremities (especially the spine)We have added a removable mylar covering to dust jacket for protection. Nice reading copy. . Oversized Hardcover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Mylared.
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- Title
- Selected Essays on English Usage
- Author
- Thomas Pyles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- University Presses of Florida
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Writing Reference
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