The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
by Gordon, Karen Elizabeth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395628830
- ISBN 13
- 9780395628836
- Seller
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition thus, 6th Printing. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Octavo. Red cloth over green boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners. Binding tight and pages crisp. Slight spine lean. Dust jacket is very good, price-clipped, with light shelf wear, scuffing, and a small nick and pencil mark on the front top right corner. 148 pages. ISBN: 9780395628836. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Synopsis
The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed is a great reference guide for those who want to learn more about English grammar in an amusing but effective tone! Full of wit, Gordon uses amusing sentences to teach proper comma and semicolon usage. An example from the "dash" section: The Grim Reaper—that cosmopolitan gadabout—was cutting capers in the vestibule while a daffy dowager quaffed her Darjeeling and knocked back vermouth and schnapps.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154814
- Title
- The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
- Author
- Gordon, Karen Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0395628830
- ISBN 13
- 9780395628836
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- 1993-07-10
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