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Whitaker London 1975 VG (clean bright red cloth backstrip on green cloth boards, gilt titles on spine and front board, usual light browning page edges, a very good clean tight copy) 12mo 1220pp.

The Penn Publishing Co Philadelphia 1911 Vg (no dj, decorated green cloth with white titles on spine and front board, black decorations to front board, owner's name in small neat ink lettering at top of front board and signature front fixed endpaper, faint browning edges of endpapers, pages very clean and unmarked throughout)16mo 226pp plus 14pp publisher's adverts. First published… Read more about this item

Doubleday New York 1980 Fine/fine (slightest wear to dj) Large format, small quarto. 219pp. The fact that this book was written by an American, some would say rather contradicts the title. However, the author gives due credence to the mother tongue and this will be of interest to all English speakers

Whitaker London 1964 Vg (no dj, clean green cloth with bright red cloth backstrip and bright gilt titles on spine, small library number in white on spine, small bump top of front board and similar bottom edge, ex library copy with library stamps prelims and outside page edges, contents clean and tight, all pages beginning to brown) 12mo 1204pp… Read more about this item

Secker & Warburg London 1984 Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Octavo. 305pp Curious and spellbinding facts...

W Heffer and Sons Ltd Cambridge 1960 Vg (no dj, clean yellow cloth with black title panels on spine and front board, no inscriptions, contents very clean and bright throughout) 12mo 255pp. Reprint. Presenting the main facts of English pronunciation of today, and also illustrating Northern and Southern dialectal speech with suggestions for correction.

Guinness Superlatives London 1972 Vg (no dj, illustrated pictorial boards with yellow titling. contents clean and unmarked. no inscriptions or underlinings quarto 314pp.