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Roget's Thesaurus
by Dutch, R.A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 4th.* Imp: 5th.* Date of Publication: 1970 (1962).* Publisher: Longmans.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Minimal bumps & rubs, minor shelf wear to boards. VG+* Jacket condition: ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to all edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 661 pp. text. 648 pp. index at rear.* Description: Roget's Thesaurus was first published in 1852 and updated by John Lewis Roget in 1879. A new edition was brought out by Samuel Romilly Roget in 1936. The edition presented here was completely revised and modernised by Robert A Dutch, was first published in 1962 and this is the fifth impression of that edition.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 5th/1st with some minor faults but no dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2777
- Title
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Author
- Dutch, R.A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th. Edition, 5th. Imp.
- Publisher
- Longmans Green and Co
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 1310
- Date Published
- 1970-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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