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Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First. 8vo 502pp Protected dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Payton's Proper Names. A Completely New Reference Book. Sunned top and bottom edge of spine of cloth. Wear and tear to D/J. Small piece of D/J. missing from top edge of spine. Price clipped to D/J. This is both a new dictionary and a new kind of dictionary and the publication of this edition is therefore something of an event. It contains words which are in common usage in contemporary English but which, because they are proper names, do not appear in normal dictionaries. Its scope is both classical and modern (very modern in places) but always relevant to today's written and spoken English. This new approach, which the author believes is unique, has lead to the creation of a valuable new work of reference. It is also absorbingly interesting - a browser's delight. 502 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.). …