Cootner Bernie (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. New York: Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster), 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Fine. Bernie Cootner, Illustrator. First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Rust brown boards with beige cloth spine, metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear; light foxing to spine cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean with clean brown endpapers - no previous owner markings. Publisher's remainder mark on top text block page edges (black marker line). Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. From the author who wrote the best selling book, "Crazy English" this book invites his fellow word lovers to enjoy fun and games with one of the most glorious languages on planet Earth. Bernie Cootner, Illustrator (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Pocket Books Hardcover Printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR with a Christmas presentation inscription. A very nice copy of book; light normal dust jacket wear. 274 pages. Cootner, Bernie (illustrator). SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 274 pp. Illus. by Bernie Cootner (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Ingenious collection of 50 fun word games that will test your skills and enlarge your vocabulary. Bright tight clean unused copy of HB 1st w jacket. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2, 274 pp, b/w dwgs. Fine unmarked, in VG bright jacket w traces of wear only. Hardback in gray/brick boards, in glossy color jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing. Fine in Fine jacket Signed by Author pp.274. Games you can play with words/language, in Metaphors, cliches, sound, names, diction, and logic. clean tight copy. Bernie Cootner (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. NrF/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, without dedication or inscription on front endpaper. Illustrated with line-drawings by Bernie Cootner. A useful and entertaining reference and history of the origins of words and phrases. Some spotting to edges; else a near fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Bernie Cootner (illustrator). Signed by Author.…

Lederer, Richard., Pocket Books, 1990, c1990, 1st Edition, boards & cloth (hard cover), vg-fine with dj, 274 pp, B&W illus. by Bernie Cootner, 8vo, "Fun & Games for Language Lovers".

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 288 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Owner personalization inked on FEP. Light stain on front panel.; 274 pages. Illustrated by Bernie Cootner (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition maroon boards, brown spine, and copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Richard Lederer; Author Dedication; Introduction. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Bernie Cootner. Signed by the author, Richard Lederer, with blue pen on the half title page. "In his dazzling national bestseller Crazy English, Richard Lederer, our premier pundit of semantics, demonstrated the wild unpredictability and wacky illogic of our wonderful mother tongue. Now, in The Play of Words, the play's the thing, as the master of linguistic revels invites his fellow word lovers to enjoy fun and games with one of the most glorious languages on planet Earth. The Play of Words lets you horse around with the animal metaphors that make poetry of everyday speech - as well as with the wheezy cliches that are all too conspicuous in our daily prose. Romp with the rhythms and rhymes of "Inky Pinky,", and see if you can "Name that Bunch" - a prickle of porcupines? a rash of dermatologists? But beware: you can lose points for laughing in "Fictionary." Take a jaunt back to the different ages and stages of English, to the roots of words and the origins of phrases. Find out why we say "happy as a clam," making merry a mollusk otherwise noted for clamming up. Test your knowledge of "What's in a Name" - and who's in a name, for the famous and the forgotten have left their traces everywhere. (Who inspired melba toast? Why do we call cheap finery tawdry?) Take on logic puzzles ancient and modern, and then invent your own. Some of these games are as easy as pie, as rolling off a log, as taking candy from a baby. Others will bring the answers to the tip of your tongue - where they'll remain until another clue jogs your memory. Still others will elude your most concentrated efforts, then jump out and say "boo." But whether you are a trinomial, a crytallaphobe, an etymologist, or an entomologist, whether you play alone or with friends, The Play of Words offers contests in which everyone comes up a winner. Brimming with delightful examples of Richard Lederer's matchless seemantic antics, The Play Of Words will bring you hours of lexicological pleasure - and the opportunity to plant your own imaginative seeds in the ever flourishing garden of the English language." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Cootner, Bernie (illustrations); Valk, Jon (jacket design); Savard, Timothy (author photograph) (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Gut. 274 S. Gutes Exemplar, geringe Gebrauchsspuren, Cover/SU berieben/bestoßen, Schnitt/Papier nachgedunkelt, innen alles in Ordnung; Good copy, light signs of previous use, cover/dust jacket shows some rubbing/wear, edges/text pages show yellowing/darkening, interior in good condition. A250414am137 ISBN: 9780671689087 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 540. …