Elements Style by Strunk William Introduction White (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. This much loved classic, now in its 4th edition, will forever be the go-to guide when in need of a hint to make a turn of phrase clearer or a reminder on how to enliven prose with the active voice. The only style manual to ever appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. Maira Kalman's fifty-seven exquisite color illustrations make for a brilliant addition - a joltof new energy that makes the learning experience positively joyful and clear. Glossary, Index. 153p. Kalman, Maira (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 92 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Light crease on back cover near spine. Front cover lightly detached from spine at bottom left corner.…

hardcover no dustjacket. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 69 pages; accetpable hardcover no dustjacket; scuffs to face boards; tips bumped and bent with slight fray and board exposure; spine slanting; tanning pages; few nicks and scuffs to edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Unclipped; acceptable. First Edition. Stated first printing; 71 p., clean and unmarked within on strong paper mildly age-toned; tanning in gutters of front and back with gift inscription on front paste-down; binding tight; black boards with still bright gilt lettering on spine have only slight edge wear but there is some smudging where some dampness, to judge from faint stains on inside of d.j, caused the paper d.j. to cling to them. The d.j. itself, though intact and clean, is rubbed at corners and chipped at edges, esp. at crown of spine panel, which has an open tear.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third printing thus. Signed by E.B. White on the front free endpaper and inscribed in chicken scratch to Louisa Kennedy (1934-2007), "For Louisa - whose writing and clarifications will one day, [illegible] and, no doubt, enlarge on what Will Strunk and I have advocated in this 'little book.' Affectionately, E. B. White Aug. '59." xiv, [ii], 71 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to edges, small dings to bottom edge of upper board, light soiling to cloth and Kennedy's name and info written at front free endpaper. A few instances of her underlining and marginal notations throughout with pen marking to rear endpaper; contents lightly toned. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with chip to crown, moderate rubbing at extremities and tanning to covers. Price written at front flap in pencil, dampstaining to base of spine panel at verso. The classic writing style bible colloquially known as Strunk & White, signed by White. It was named by Time as one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century. Initially written by Cornell University professor William Strunk in 1918 and privately published in 1919, the work advocated for clean and concise writing. In 1957 the style guide reached the attention of E.B. White at The New Yorker. White had studied writing at Cornell under Strunk in 1919 but had since forgotten "the little book" that he described as a "forty-three-page summation of the case for cleanliness, accuracy, and brevity in the use of English." Weeks later, White wrote about Strunk's devotion to lucid English prose in his column. White greatly enlarged and revised the book for publication by Macmillan in 1959. Inscribed to Louisa Kennedy, a former spokesperson for Iran hostage crisis victims alongside her husband and foreign service officer Moorhead C. Kennedy, Jr. (1930-2024) Anderson 6 pp. Signed.…