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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
by FOWLER, H.W
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition, revised by Sir Ernest Gowers. 12mo. xx, 725pp. Faint spotting on the page edges, a couple of tiny scuffs on the bottom edge, near fine, in a very good dust jacket, with abrasions on the front cover and the spine edges, modest edgewear, and a slightly sunned spine.
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
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 558956
- Title
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
- Author
- FOWLER, H.W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- EnglishLiterature
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