The Play Of Words: Fun And Games For Language Lovers (HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
Language: English
Published by Pocket Books, New York, U S A, 1990
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Seller: Greystone Books, Margate, United KingdomGreystone Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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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.
Seller Inventory # 14060
- Title
- The Play Of Words: Fun And Games For Language Lovers (HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
- Author
- Lederer, Richard
- Publisher
- Pocket Books, New York, U S A
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0671689088
- ISBN 13
- 9780671689087
- Illustrator
- Bernie Cootner
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Education, History, Reference
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From the Publisher
In this book I've created a sequence of games that all teach the reader something about language, from how we get our idioms and expressions from the land and the sea to Inky Pinky and Fictionary to how classical roots combine to form English words. No jumblewords or scramblegrams here -- all the games raise the reader's knowledge of our marvelous English language. All answers are in the book.
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