Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Fowler, First Edition (13 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Black Leatherette With Gilt Design, "This Edition Has Been Prepared Especially For G. P. Putnam's Sons New York" On Title Page, Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Some Mild Wrinkles On Front And Back Paste Downs, Light Crack In Gutter Of Front Cover With Webbing Slightly Exposed, But Loose Pages, Boards Do Not Lay Flat, Or Other Damage, Light Moisture Exposure On Front End Paper, Tanning From Age, Otherwise An Unmarked,...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No. 1st Edition. Rare book .stated publication Jan 1927 4th impression . there is no writing no foxing 742 pages. that are white and clean. there is a whole in cloth spine pictured .owners name on front end paper Lawyer from Easton Pa .see pictures.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. . Original blue cloth with bright gilt designs on the cover and spine. First Edition. With great humor, Watson compiled this classic guide to English usage still beloved by teachers and scholars. Printing and the Mind of Man 418. No Dust Jacket, Near Fine. Together with Fowler, Henry Watson and Francis George Fowler. The Kings English. London: At the Clarendon Press, 1906. Original red cloth. First Edition. Bookplate of Eliza Gutch, the author...

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926. First Edition, First Printing with all first issue points, including 1926 date on title page with no later printings noted on copyright page, etc. Good.Front hinge cracked else tight binding; light foxing to endpapers else clean; some wear and a few light stains to covers; no jacket. "No book had more influence on twentieth-century writers of English than Henry Fowler'sDictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly...

Original Cloth. Condition: Very good. 1st. 1st American Edition. This edition has been prepared especially for G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Mild wear to extremities with a small spot of white scuffing on front cover. Enpapers show some discoloring around perimeter. Presents nicer than description might suggest. Alphabetical index notches on outer edge. Flexible fabricord cover. 5 x 7 1/8 inches. 742 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Published by The Clarendon Press, 1927 with statement: "This edition has been prepared especially for G. P. Putnam's Sons New York." Black flexible faux leather cover has wear to extremities but clean and overall in very good- condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Modest soiling to bottom page edge. Fore edge has thumbed index tabs in very good condition. Toning to marbled end...

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926. First Edition, First Printing with 1926 date on title page with no later printings noted on copyright page. Condition Fair/Good. No inscriptions or markings, general wear, no jacket. Boards and spine have edge wear and bumping/crushing at extremeties, fading to spine, and some marking/staining. Very slight outward curving of front board. Some splitting at gutter between front pastedown and FFEP resulting in a slight loosening of the binding....

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover 8vo in very good condition. Original blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to front and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Boards have some signs of shelf wear but are still in very good condition. Binding tight. 742 pages with some signs of aging but overall clean and with text clear.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good or better with light rubbing to cloth and wear at corners and spine ends, endsheets foxed and hinges there slightly exposed, pages toned, small tear to title page. A style guide to British English usage, pronunciation and writing, colloquially referred to as Fowler's Usage, which became the standard for...

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in near-contemporary half-leather over cloth, recently rebacked. Very Good. Several small edge tears to pages, light foxing to prelims and terminals, light worming to textblock edge. A style guide to British English usage, pronunciation and writing, colloquially referred to as Fowler's Usage, which became the standard for other style guides to writing in English. Immensely influential, this first edition remains in print to this day.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind. Very Good. Cloth streaked in raking light, lightly rubbed at extremities. Light staining to textblock edge. Previous owner gift inscription to front free endpaper and browning to front free endpaper and title page. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning and soiling, spine ends worn, small losses at tips, rubbing...