Published by Australian National University and Oxford University Press. Second Australian edition, Canberra and Melbourne, 2016
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Two vols. 'Australian Words and Their Origins': from 'Abbott's booby' to, 1802pp. later, 'Zygomaturus'; bibliography, a map, and 31pp. of entries for 'bush' and related terms (three columns to a page); the history of one set of sounds of the country; first published in 1988. Pictorial cloth and printed boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper and in original slipcase. All fine. book.