The Pattern of English
by `G. H. Vallins
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. card holder attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top text block. DJ has been protected in a plastic cover. Plastic cover has been taped to the inside bindings leaving tape stains on the opposite pages. From the front DJ flap, "Mr. Vallins combines profound learning with lucid exposition...He quotes entertainingly from the prescriptive grammarians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and he sets their views against those of present-day linguists with their more liberal notions of acceptability and usage."
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Details
- Seller
- Grampy's Bookcase (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- bc2401995
- Title
- The Pattern of English
- Author
- `G. H. Vallins
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 188
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Grammar
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Grampy's Bookcase
Biblio member since 2018
Ridgeley, West Virginia
About Grampy's Bookcase
A private collector with over three thousand quality used books. Many books are quite old and cover many topics, particularly history and related social sciences. Included is a large collection of early and mid 20th century books on the history of the labor movement and socialist party in the United States. After a lifetime of collecting, looking for good homes for these prized editions.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....