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HANDBOOK OF EFFECTIVE WRITING
by SMART, WALTER KAY
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1922. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback 1922 Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Classic Writing Textbook. Small detailed volume published in 1922 with effective writing skills designed as a textbook for a college course in English and for use in the correction of themes. Grammatical principles are clear and concise as are the other topics such as clarity of thought, effectiveness of the sentence, diction, punctuation, proper use of tense, paragraph cohesiveness, etc. All as pertinent today as in 1922. Binding of brown cloth w/gilt titles, which is rubbed off on spine, visible on front. Clean and unmarked, light scuffing to corners, spine head and heel rubbed; tight and solid sewn binding. Former owner name on endpaper. Pages are clean, no marks, no tears, moderately toned, but not browned. The back loose endpaper has a piece torn out of it. A handy, useful book, in quite good shape for a book nearly 100 years old. 267 pages with Appendix and Index. 6.75 x 5 inches. 1922, Harper & Brothers, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002810
- Title
- HANDBOOK OF EFFECTIVE WRITING
- Author
- SMART, WALTER KAY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1922
- Size
- 12mo - over 6?" - 7?"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LANGUAGE ARTS EDUCATION ENGLSIH WRITING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Textbooks. English Usuage, Grammar, Com Arts;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
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