HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1945* Publisher: John Crowther?s Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Beige waxed linen cloth, black title to spine and facsimile signature to face. Corners bumped and rubbed. Boards somewhat aged with a few small marks. GD+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Wartime production copy. Thick coarse light brown end papers. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, very light ageing to margins & top edge. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 151 pp. text.* Description: A welcome alternative to Brewers Phrase and Fable. Particular care was taken by the author to include only those numerous words and phrases which can be proved to have grown from some definite custom, or arising out of corrupted words of a past age. He was careful to exclude those which have merely grown into the language as slang, without any etymological foundation.* A VG copy with only minor faults reducing it to GD+. No dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4259
Title: Crowther's Encyclopaedia Of Phrases
Author: Radford, Edwin
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/GD+/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Second Edition,
Publisher: John Crowther Ltd
Place of Publication: London Uk 151
Date Published: 1945-01-01

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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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...