THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: A PRELIMINARY INQUIRY INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH IN THE UNITED STATES
by Mencken, H. L
- Used
- first
- Condition
- near Very Good binding
- Seller
-
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Octavo. x, 374 pp. Limited first edition, numbered 892 of 1500 copies. In publisher's cloth lacking the dust jacket. An indifferent copy, spine titling dulled to illegibility; general soiling and light shelfwear; contents are clean; a couple leaves roughly opened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7800
- Title
- THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: A PRELIMINARY INQUIRY INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH IN THE UNITED STATES
- Author
- Mencken, H. L
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - near Very Good binding
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Box B1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books on books; Literature and Fiction; Scholarly;
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About the Seller
Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....