Peter D Ridge Beedle (2 results)

Condition: Good. 1947. 118 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

8vo, pp. 118; 2 folding plates depicting the new alphabet in typescript and in facsimile manuscript; additional facsimiles throughout; original cloth in red, white, and blue dust jacket; jacket heavily foxed and worn with 2 large tears to top edge of rear cover, loss to spine foot; interior mostly very good. Author inscription on ffep. Thorough guide to the Bedel alphabet, the English alphabet made phonetic with the addition of 16 new letters. Bifolium "Instructions for teaching," published by the Press in 1950 to accompany Why Not English?, laid in. Not in OCLC.…