Name Into Word: Proper Names That Have Become Common Property (A Discursive Dictionary)
by Eric Partridge (with a Foreword)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus in Fair Dust jacket
- Seller
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Milton, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan Company, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in Fair Dust jacket. Red cloth, light wear, spine a bit faded, well bound, former owner's name on front fly leaf, o/w clean and unmarked with very lightly age toned paper. Dust jacket very worn with chipping to edges and spine sunned, now protected in a clear archival cover. pp. xv, [1], 644
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- Bookseller
- North Country Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14718
- Title
- Name Into Word: Proper Names That Have Become Common Property (A Discursive Dictionary)
- Author
- Eric Partridge (with a Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus in Fair Dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Language;
Terms of Sale
North Country Books
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About the Seller
North Country Books
Biblio member since 2008
Milton, Vermont
About North Country Books
General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
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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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- 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....
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