Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language
by Ciardi, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0060156910
- ISBN 13
- 9780060156916
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. xix, [3], 343 p.; 24 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Stated First Edition. An "ebullient inquiry into the sources and correct employment of hundreds of idoms, words, phrases." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: pages are browning but clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: lightly rubbed; faded along lower edge of front section; clean and solid.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009226
- Title
- Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language
- Author
- Ciardi, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060156910
- ISBN 13
- 9780060156916
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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