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Published by Paul Elek, 1950
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1950. No edition remarks. 80 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by van Praag. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Name in pen on front.
Published by Hardcover
Seller: Langdon eTraders, HARROW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Hardcover Good Sold on behalf of the UK charity Langdon - assisting young people with disabilities.
Published by Paul Elek Publishers, London, UK, 1950
Seller: Secondhand Books 'n' Things, Ross Creek, VIC, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition, 1950, Paul Elek Publishers, London UK. This book is in good condition - pages tanning; section of extra tanning on rfep; edge wear to boards. The dust jacket is in fair-good condition - not price-clipped; several small marks; edge wear including small losses of material and loss of top right hand corner in the front, about an inch wide.
Published by PAUL ELEK PUBLISHERS LTD., LONDON E.C. 1, 1950
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. VAN PRAAG (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is a none too serious enquiry into the decline and fall of our language. 12mo. 80pages 1950 first edition . Original grey / green cloth cover, title in red lettering on spine. front and rear free end papers are foxed , but generally inside is clean , all illustrations are correct. Dust Jacket has a certain amount of shelf wear, head has some tears . A very interesting little book , with lots of drawings most of us would enjoy this.
Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (english language, humor, english wit and humor ) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Published by Paul Elek, London, 1950
Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (80pp). Illustrations. Dust jacket price-clipped, offset brownng, else clean unused Size: Small Octavo. Hardcover.
Published by Paul Elek. 1950, 1950
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
FIRST EDITION. Half title, illus. Orig. olive green cloth. Pink pictorial, d.w., clipped; a little darkened & damp affected. Copac lists copies at BL, NLS, Oxford, and NLW only A satirical work, looking at the language's 'abuse by the Heretik Foreigner' and reserving its true ire for 'the lamentable Menace from Within by those professing to owe allegiance to the said Language but openly working for its Downfall'.