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Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Fifth Edition (Thin Paper edition) Full Leather
by Merriam-Webster
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Springfield Mass: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1946. Fifth Edition. Full leather. The Largest Abridgment of Webster's New International Dictionary. Published Springfield Mass: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1946. 8vo., xxxiv+1275pp. blind embossed full leather, thumb indexed, all edge gilting, blue endpapers. Some wear at the crrown, light rub at heel and edges, previous owner bookplate on pastedown, name stamp on title page. Very good, attractive, strongly bound. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009339
- Title
- Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Fifth Edition (Thin Paper edition) Full Leather
- Author
- Merriam-Webster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Publisher
- G. & C. Merriam Company
- Place of Publication
- Springfield Mass
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 8vo
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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