WHAT'S IN A NAME? Surnames of America by La Reina Rule; William K. Hammond - 1977

New York, NY: Jove Pubns/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. First Thus . Soft cover. Good/None as Issued. Grace J. Kramer (Illustrations). Text/Near New w/margin discoloration. Stated First Edition, First Printing; published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Soft cover/Good w/rubs to leading edges, faint creasings to corners and surface. Dictionary to some 7,000 surnames found in Amercia with 'origins, meanings, and heraldic emblems". Given the make-up and social values of the US in the 1970's, surnames are Western orientated and chiefly Anglo-Saxon. Nevertheless, volume is fascinnating reading. "Campbell" of canned soups' fame and hence so respectable in the USA, originally meant someone in the family "had a crooked mouth" ; and "Duffy" refers to descendents of "the dark one". So volume still a testimony that the lowly and unattractive can gain respectibility in America.