The Elements of Style
by William Strunk Jr
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920. First Trade Edition. First trade edition after a private printing. Book measures approximately 7.25" x 5", with 52 numbered pages.
Book is in very good minus condition. Gift inscription on the front endpaper reads: "For my Cornell daughter H.F.M from M.M.F May 31, 1977 Ithaca, N.Y." Moderate staining to the boards. Edgewear to the extremities. Small punctured closed tears at the top of pages 3-32.
"The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. is an American English writing style guide. This book was privately published and intended for the use at Cornell University where Strunk worked as a professor of English. The book has been named by Time as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.
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Inventory #(M8-6).
Book is in very good minus condition. Gift inscription on the front endpaper reads: "For my Cornell daughter H.F.M from M.M.F May 31, 1977 Ithaca, N.Y." Moderate staining to the boards. Edgewear to the extremities. Small punctured closed tears at the top of pages 3-32.
"The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. is an American English writing style guide. This book was privately published and intended for the use at Cornell University where Strunk worked as a professor of English. The book has been named by Time as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.
Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.
Inventory #(M8-6).
Synopsis
The Elements of Style (1918) (aka Strunk & White), by William Strunk, Jr. , and E. B. White, is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes.
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- Bookseller
- Ernestoic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3700
- Title
- The Elements of Style
- Author
- William Strunk Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
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