English from Good Old Books

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884 263 pages, correction page and 4 pages of adverts. Very minor wear, backstrip a bit darker.

Minneapolis: Scholastic Editor, University of Minnesota, 1927 20 pages, This handbook represents an effort to select those points of style and usage upon which most of the best newspapers are agreed, and to bring them together in convenient for for the use of journalists at work in schools, colleges, and offices. Rare. A printing teacher has previous… Ler mais sobre este item

Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1963 236 pages, story telling is coming back in vogue and here is a pretty indepth primer for a good story telling method. Dust jacket very gently worn.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 224 pages, small tear on cover of dust jaket, mildly soiled. Foxing to end pages.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1901 420 pages, backstrip missing.

New York: Harper & Bros., 1882 564 pages, in six parts: Perspicuity in Style, Persuasiveness in Style, Harmony in Style, Method, The Emotions, The General Departments of Literature, mild rubbing and staining to the green boards.

New York: D. Appleton, 1930 110 pages, dust jacket is in pieces with some of it missing, book is solid and clean. No 1 on last page so probably not a first, although there usually is indication of printing number 2, 3, etc on the end page with d. appleton so maybe this is an anomaly, and is a first.

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1897 160 pages, mild stains and wear to board.

Indianapolis: Maxwell Droke, 1941 1257 pages, very minor stains to end pages.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1952 207 pages, dust jacket has many tears.