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The Play of Words
by Lederer, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671689088
- ISBN 13
- 9780671689087
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster), 1990. Book. Illus. by Bernie Cootner, Illustrator. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster), 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Fine. Bernie Cootner, Illustrator. First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Rust brown boards with beige cloth spine, metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear; light foxing to spine cloth. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean with clean brown endpapers - no previous owner markings. Publisher's remainder mark on top text block page edges (black marker line). Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. From the author who wrote the best selling book, "Crazy English" this book invites his fellow word lovers to enjoy fun and games with one of the most glorious languages on planet Earth..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027305
- Title
- The Play of Words
- Author
- Lederer, Richard
- Illustrator
- Bernie Cootner, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0671689088
- ISBN 13
- 9780671689087
- Publisher
- Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FUN AND GAMES, RICHARD LEDERER, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Games;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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