CURIOSITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. With Introduction by the Rev. William Oxley Thompson.

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8.5 x 6, blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, 288 pp. Covers have light wear and soiling, top page edges spotted, spine cocked and lettering well rubbed, front inner hinge starting else contents clean and good. Errata slip in front of title page. From the introduction: "This book is a collection of interestingly curious uses of the English language and is at once curiously interesting. . . Nowhere have I seen such a collection of oddities, curiosities, wit, humor, blunders, ingenious compositions -- all illustrating the uncertain movements of the human mind." Scarce. FIRST ED.

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Titel

CURIOSITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. With Introduction by the Rev. William Oxley Thompson.

Verlag

Central Publishing House: Cleveland nd (1925)

Veröffentlichungsdatum

1925

Bindung

Hardcover

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1. Auflage

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