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WORDPLAY
by Cole, Chris
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0806917970
- ISBN 13
- 9780806917979
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1999 * Publisher: Stirling Publishing. Co. UK. * Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated soft card covers with green and white titles to face on a purple ground and white title to blue spine strip. No bumps, rubs or shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems little-used. In clear slip-on protective jacket. VG++. * Contents condition: Ex school-library with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. Very slightly grubby to top page edges. VG+ * Illustrations: A number of b/w vignettes within text. throughout.* Pages: 188 pp. text. iv pp. notes & index at rear.* Product Description:- Which words are hardest to rhyme? What word is longer than any other? Do you know what a tautonym is, or a "head 'n' tail" ? Language can provide hours of entertainment. These 'games' will challenge your mind ? and sharpen your thinking skills! This most unusual Lexicon ever has only a few definitions, but lots of unusual facts about each word's structure ? including which common word is the most difficult to spell !! By the time you're through, you'll see language in a whole new light ? and find interesting word patterns everywhere you look.* This is a NEAR FINE ex school library copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with minimal faults reducing it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9604
- Title
- WORDPLAY
- Author
- Cole, Chris
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0806917970
- ISBN 13
- 9780806917979
- Publisher
- Sterling
- Place of Publication
- NY, NY USA 192
- Date Published
- 1999-03-01
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