swifts polite conversation von swift jonathan (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. With introduction, notes and extensive commentary by Eric Partridge. 182pp. Boards slightly bowed, foxing on the page edges and faintly on the front endpapers, very good, in an unevenly sunned, very good dust jacket, with a tiny bit of foxing on the front cover and the interior.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 182 pages; facsimiles; 23 cm. Subjects: 1700-1799; English language 18th century Style; English language Style; English language History; Proverbs; Speechwriting; English language 18th century Usage; Dialogues, Irish (in English); Conversation. 1 Kg.

First edition, 8vo, pp. 182; original boards in bright pink printed price-clipped dust jacket, spine and front top edge of jacket, light edge wear, else a very good copy. Forms part of the Language Library.

First edition, 8vo, pp. 182; original boards in bright pink printed price-clipped dust jacket; very small spots of soiling to front pastedown and ffep, else fine. Forms part of the Language Library.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

First edition, 8vo, pp. 182; fine in original pink printed dust jacket. Forms part of the Language Library, edited by Partridge.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

First edition, 8vo, pp. 182; fine in original pink printed dust jacket. Forms part of the Language Library series, edited by Partridge. This copy signed by Partridge on the front free endpaper.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. 8vo. (21.6 x 14 cm). pp. 182. Dedication copy. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the unclipped dust jacket. With a long inscription from Partridge to Hamish (James) Hamilton, the founder of British publishing house Hamish Hamilton Ltd (which published several of Partridge's works), dated 25. Dec. 1975 which reads: "Dear Hamish, You don't have to read it: please me by accepting it for Christmas in a year during which you yourself & your firm have shown me great kindness. Sincerely, Eric". Also includes an Andre Deutsch advertisement pamphlet addressed to Hamish with Partridge's annotations and recommendations tucked inside. Spine of dust jacket a bit sunned, a near fine copy. Eric Honeywood Partridge (6 February 1894 1 June 1979) was a New ZealandBritish lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II.