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London / Devonport.: 'Printed for the Booksellers' / J Heydon., 1842. 'Price One Shilling' on title page.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Pencil marks, many light, some bold, clock face in child's hand; 'Emma Sherman 1883'. Missing front end paper. Surface wear. Spine, corners, edges significantly worn.. 1 Light brown leather over boards, stamped title front and back w/ shield: 'MURRAY'S GRAMMAR'; stamped borders. 126p. 3.5x5.75in. Font perhaps 7-8pt type. Introduction: Compiler notes that this Abridgment is presented after frequent requests, 'to preserve the larger work from being torn and defaced by the younger scholars...' and ended with, 'Holdgate, near York, 1797. ' p.2-7. As expected, there is some defacement herein. This is an original 19th century edition.

Nashville TN.: Incentive Publications., 2005. 1st printing. IP 390-1.. Wraps. New. No dust jacket as issued. Unused. Front older small price sticker.. Deprez, Mary Patricia, dba Tye Dye Mary, Cover Art by).. 1 Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Tie-dye spiral rainbow cover. Answer keys at back. "Inventive exercises to sharpen skills and raise achievement", subtitle.

New York.: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1967. Later printing.. Trade paperback. Fair. Cover damage. Tears at lower front, spine, repaired with clear tape. Clean interior.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. English Language lessons with review exercises: The Sentence; Modifiers; Verbs; Verb Tense and Voice; Agreement and Reference; Punctuation; Grammar and Style; The Sentence in context; Final Test.

New York.: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1967. Later printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Classroom inventory number, upper and lower page blocks. End paper small blemish. Clean text pages, unmarked otherwise.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. English Language lessons with review exercises: The Sentence; Modifiers; Verbs; Verb Tense and Voice; Agreement and Reference; Punctuation; Grammar and Style; The Sentence in context; Final Test.

Charleston SC.: Wyrick & Company., 1988. 2nd printing.. Trade paperback. New. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.. Thompson, Bill (Illustrations by), and Savard, Timothy (Author B&W back cover portrait by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 149 p. Pen&Ink Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Word Play, Homographs, Homophones, Knock-Knock Jokes, Punupmanship, Daffinitions Fictionary, Figuring Out Mathematical English, Silver Spoonerisms, and more. Lederer's career has included teaching at St. Paul's in Concord NH, public radio commentary (NH), print contributor, and public speaking (and they were).

A Laurel Book / Dell Publishing., 1990. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top spine has short tears. Prior bookstore ink stamp inside.. Thompson, Bill (Illustrations by). 1 Foldover front cover by 1/3rd 'cause one just can't say enough to promote this work, and the extra space allows a good start.. Subtitle: 'Whet your wit and ready your riposte with this outrageous punster's Bible'. The language arts master of St Paul's School in New Hampshire offers up 25 punster games that analyze, dissect, exercise, and encourage the use of puns, sharpening wits, and encouraging laughter in learning.

Penguin Books, 1980. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 189 p. Audience: General/trade. Causes and cures of the new illiteracy.

Countryman Press, 1981. Unabridged.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 0 112 p.

Paragon House Publishers, 1988. Trade paperback. New. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 102 p. Audience: General/trade.

Boston MA.: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin., 1995. First edition. 1st printing, this edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. Some short flaking to cover sealing edges. Clean, unmarked interior.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 202 p. Bibliography by author; Contributors' list. Audience: General/trade. Essays by varied authors listed above, plus Frazier, Ian; Gates, Henry Louis Jr; Simpson, Eileen; Kazin, Alfred.

New Jersey.: Longman Publishing Group., 2002. First edition. 2nd Brief edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Scar to lower spine where label had been removed.. 1 Trade paperback. Illustrated blue paper covers. 23 cm. 800 p. Audience: General/trade. Sections: Strategies for Writing Process; Writing Occasions; Research; Style; Presentations (Oral, Essay, Portfolios). Writers on Writing (14).

Delacorte Press., 1993. First edition. 1st print, October 1993.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed by author to "Julie & Allen, 12/9/94" Light jacket edge wear, spine ends, corners.. Thompson, Bill (Illustrations by).. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 191 p. Comic Pen&Ink Illustrations. Audience: General/trade/wordsmiths. Language Arts & Disciplines: During the 6 years since Lederer published his language humor book, Anguished English, he had 15000 more examples from which to compile 2000 for this book. A sample from a college admission essay: "I was abducted into the national honor society"; OR in an ad: "Try our cough syrup. You will never get any better." Not fabricated; we are just not very smart about our language usage. When we laugh with Lederer, we are more likely to take a second look or listen to what we write or want to say.

Los Angeles.: Silman-James Press., 1992. 4th printing.. Trade paperback. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge foxing (top), light right side soiling from reading. Smooth spine. Clean pages.. 1 369 p. Sequel to "The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter" (1971). Interviewed herein: Anna Hamilton Phelen; Dan O'Bannon; Joe Esterhas; Gregory Widen; Daniel Pyne; Jeffrey Boam; Bill Bryan; Laurence Dworet; Diane Frolov; Ronald Bass; Jack Epps Jr and Jim Cash; Fay Kanin; Bill Haber and Rowland Perkins.

Henry Holt and Company., 1928. 13th printing since 1921 first.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Re-covered from Brockton (MA) HIgh School Library. Tightly bound. Age-toning. Random soil spots. Wonderfully readable.. Williams, Gluyas (Comic line art illustrations by).. 1 234 p. Includes illustrations. Brown stamped pebbled and smooth cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. 4.75x7.25in. Humorous essays (25) about the conditions of the peopled society, early 20th century. Robert C Benchley was a columnist in newspapers and magazines of the day; and as Hollywood later came to be, he redefined himself and put his personality and writing skills to work there.

New York.: Thomas Y Crowell Co., 1973. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner.. Foote, Angela (Designed by).. 1 Includes index. Durable flexible covers, decorated, printers' blocks collage. Endpapers: checklist and editing symbols. Chapters: Thesis, Structure, Paragraphs, Evidence, Writing Good Sentences, Correcting Bad Sentences, Punctuation, Words, The Research paper, A Writer's Grammar, Spelling and Capitalization, Usage Glossary.

Research & Education Association, 1984. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 Glued binding. 298 p. Audience: General/trade.

San Francisco CA.: Chandler Publishing Company., 1966. SRA Science Research Associates.. Hard cover. Good. Ex-library. Clean text pages. Spine sun-fade. Light cover soiling.. 1 167 p. Includes index. Trade paperback size, library hardcover binding. Green & white and black covers. 5.25x8.25in. Audience: General/trade. English Composition: Craftsmanship in written prose and speech, revisions, clarity, etymology, vocabulary, grace, jargon, sentence structure and rhythm are included as themes, followed by authors' examples in style: W Churchill, R Thayer, E.H. White, L.C. Eiseley, C.H.A. Wager, G Orwell, A Lincoln, F.L. Allen, E Hamilton, G.B. Shaw, W Allen, E.M. Forster. An Appendix offers "Aids to Effective Style", and "Specific Suggestions".

Ann Arbor MI.: University of Michigan Press., 1982. Trade paperback. Very good. Top age block darkening.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Poets on Poetry (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. American and English 20th century poetry and poets organized into 4 categories: Generalization, Celebration; Reviewing; Notation. Professor, poet, essayist, children's storyteller, and novelist Donald Hall was a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and with his wife, poet Jane Kenyon, moved to New Hampshire to his grandparents' small farm. He has been the American Poet Laureate.

New York: Apollo Edition / Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1964. 5th printing. Original edition: 1951.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Interior clean. Foxing to page edges. Spine creasing.. 0 283 p. 5x8in. Green, blk, blue, orange cover; white titles. Preface; Brief Guide to English Versification: Meters, Stanza, Fixed Forms, Blank & Free, Kinds of Poetry, Charts, How to Use Rhyming Dictionary; Phonetic categories.

McGraw-Hill Companies, 1988. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 0 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 261 p. Audience: General/trade.