The ABC of Style: A Guide to Plain English
by Flesch, Rudolf
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Evanston, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York : Harper and Row, 1964. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. For your favorite curmudgeon, a delight for usage prescriptivists, or those who want to make fun of them. This is subtitled "A Word Diet for the Verbally Overweight". Selected at random from the middle of this volume, the author instructs the reader as to how they should or should not make use of instrumental, insufficient, insure, intensive, interlocutor, intervene, intimate, into, intrigue, intrinsic, and inundate ("it's shorter to say flood"-- true enough, Mr. Flesch). First printing stated, VG in a like jacket with a few small tears. Quite a solid copy. In protective mylar
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- Bookseller
- Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003758
- Title
- The ABC of Style: A Guide to Plain English
- Author
- Flesch, Rudolf
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Pages
- 303
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"- 9&fr
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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