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Unjacketed hardback, cloth cover as shown with this listing is rubbed, bumped and scuffed. Head and tail bands, colored endpapers. Binding is firm, text is tanned. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

Chicago: S. G. Griggs and Company, 1876. First edition, 1876. Attractively bound Victorian guide to appropriate selection of words (morality in words, grand words, small words, words without meaning, secret of apt words, fallacies in words, nicknames, common improprieties of speech, etc.). Emerald green cloth over beveled boards with gilt lettering and black ruling, 384 pages. Linly right rubbing to… Read more about this item

Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. russet cloth, beveled edges. 384 pp. Spine tilted, boards and edges rubbed, some cockling to cloth. Damp staining to lower corner of front board and edges of endpapers. Sporadic spots of light foxing.

Chicago: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. x, 494pp. Illustrated. Page and cloth edges age-toned, small chip on bottom inside gutter, spine darkened with edges rubbed, very good lacking the scarce dustwrapper.

Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company. Good Plus/No Jacket. 1876. ........ Hardcover. Covers slightly soiled. Spine is slightly rubbed and has fraying at the head and tail. Previous owner ink inscription on the half title page. Otherwise, contents clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall .

S.C. Griggs. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Chicago, 1876; green cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; covers slightly soiled; spine ends frayed, corners exposed; ownership stamping on front fly and title page; ownership name written on second front fly; pages 283 - 286 detached but present; pencil notation on second rear end paper, otherwise interior unmarked; 12mo - over 6… Read more about this item

Good. Chicago, 1877. Brown cloth covered boards with gold titles; edges worn, heaviest at corners and spine ends; 12mo, 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall; slight musty smell present; gutter gap at title page; pages toned; interior is unmarked; 384 pages.

Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company. Nearly fine, bright copy in the original green cloth. 1877. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 384 pp. + ads .

Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Company, 1877. seventh thousand. Hardcover. Good +. Green cloth, gilt titles 7"x4.5", 384pp plus ads. Text clean & unmarked. Owner's contemporary signature on endpaper, dated June 1877.

S. C. Griggs, 1880. Hardcover. Good. This hardback book is in Good+ condition. cover edges slightly rubbed. spine slant. Brown cloth covered boards with black and gilt lettering and lines, front cover and spine. Complete, solid, bright.

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