Elements Style by Strunk, First Edition (25 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Fourth Edition. Faint crease to spine, mild edgewear to wraps. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. Binding is sound Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First Edition. First Printing. Dust jacket worn with an inch and half tear on the front corner. Pages clean with a tight spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Maira Kalman (illustrator). First Thus. A fine first edition thus. No jacket. Illustrated by Maira Kalman. This is a classic writers guide.

paperback. Condition: Good. GOOD Condition PAPERBACK.QUITE NICE, BUT FAINT TEA STAIN TO SOME INNER PAGES.SOLIDLY BOUND, NOT MARKED UP, NOT ABUSED. ; Whtie titles on squareback orange paper covers. ; 71 pages; Red & Black spine titles on Vanilla stiff paper covers.WITH INDEX. first edition,12th ptg; FIFTEENTH printing".

paperback. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK.faded spine strip area. ; Whtie titles on squareback orange paper covers. ; 71 pages; Red & Black spine titles on Vanilla stiff paper covers.WITH INDEX. first edition,15th ptg; FIFTEENTH printing".

Paperback. Condition: UsedGood. Paperback; stated first printing; with revisions, an introduction, and a new chapter on writing by E.B. White; soiling, scuffing, and edge wear to exterior; scrape to top front corner; former owner's name and address embossed on front endpaper; fading to pages; in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (English language, writing, rhetoric, style manuals).

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Thus. Fourth Edition, Second Printing. Published by The Penguin Press, 2005. Octavo. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Fourth edition. 12mo.[xviii], 105 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (101581). Foreword by Roger Angell.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Tenth Printing (1960). Not price-clipped. Published by The Macmillan Company, 1959. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with previous owner name/date on flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. Very slight wear to tips and ends and faint rubbing to cover, otherwise, books is in great shape with clean pages and tight binding. Dustjacket has edgewear and rubbing, four half inch tears, eighth inch hole on spine, remains attractive in protective archival cover. Overall, a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. WITH REVISIONS BY E.B. WHITE,CRISP BOARDS,CLEAN UNMARKED TEXT,DJ EDGE/SHELF WEAR.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Green boards, rubbed on edges and some chipping on corners. Blue cloth spine, pulled on top and bottom. Pages are age toned. Binding a bit shaken. Clean throughout. First printing after a private edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unclipped; acceptable. First Edition. Stated first printing; 71 p., clean and unmarked within on strong paper mildly age-toned; tanning in gutters of front and back with gift inscription on front paste-down; binding tight; black boards with still bright gilt lettering on spine have only slight edge wear but there is some smudging where some dampness, to judge from faint stains on inside of d.j, caused the paper d.j. to cling to them. The d.j. itself, though intact and clean, is rubbed at corners and chipped at edges, esp. at crown of spine panel, which has an open tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 71 pages. Small owner's signature on endpaper dated August 1959. This is a true first, with "First Printing" stated on the copyright page, no punch mark on the rear cover, and the jacket is priced $2.50. The jacket is lightly worn at the edges with a few tiny nicks. Book.

NY, Macmillan, 1959, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Strunk first published this book in 1918, this is the first edition with revisions, and introduction, and a new chapter on writing by E. B. White, although the front flap is a bit oddly clipped, it retains the $2.50 price, black cloth has no blind stamp on the rear cover. Very good.

Hardcover. First Trade Edition. Small Octavo, [6], 52, [8] pages. In Good condition. Spine has been rebound in red cloth quarter binding with original boards preserved. Boards are bound in light grey-green paper, and show moderate scratching/scuffing and discoloration to covers - this partially disrupts the text and publisher's symbol on the front cover. Trio of grey stains on back cover. Moderate edge wear to bottom board edges. Wear at fore corners and bumping to bottom fore corner of rear board has resulted in exposed boards. Text block shows expected age toning, with some shelf wear and scuffing visible on bottom edge. Light foxing visible on top edge of text block. Binding is somewhat loose near top of spine, resulting in the text block leaning forward slightly. Toning and adhesive staining to endpapers. Embossed stamp from former owner on front free endpaper. Mixed red ink and pencil notation, underlining, and marginalia present throughout the book; all text remains entirely legible. Shelved in Room A. This book has the original boards, but the original binding has been replaced with red cloth quarter binding. Additionally, while this is a first trade edition, Strunk's Elements of Style had been printed before by private presses in 1918 and 1919. 1399735. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Macmillan Company. New York. 1959. 71 pages. First edition stated, first printing. Original DJ with $2.50 price intact on DJ flap. No blind impression on rear panel; this is NOT the book club edition that also states first edition. This is the original first retail trade edition, first printing with E.B. White's added chapter and revisions; the same E.B. White of the New Yorker, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, who happened to be a student of Professor Strunk's at Cornell University. This title was first available in a different format in 1920; without the E.B. White contributions. This book is tight. Binding and hinges are sound. A 1959 dated gift inscription on FFEP. Endpapers show faint toning. Minor shelf-rubbing along panel edges. Original DJ with $2.50 price intact on flap. DJ shows rubbing along edges, tiny chipping and a couple of small closed edge tears. Small code written on rear corner of DJ. VG+/VG-.

First Trade Edition. First trade edition after a private printing. Book measures approximately 7.25" x 5", with 52 numbered pages. Book is in very good minus condition. Gift inscription on the front endpaper reads: "For my Cornell daughter H.F.M from M.M.F May 31, 1977 Ithaca, N.Y." Moderate staining to the boards. Edgewear to the extremities. Small punctured closed tears at the top of pages 3-32. "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. is an American English writing style guide. This book was privately published and intended for the use at Cornell University where Strunk worked as a professor of English. The book has been named by Time as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(M8-6).

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First trade edition. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over darker blue spine cloth. Very Good with toning, darkening, mellow staining and edge wear to covers, toning to pages. The first trade edition of the notorious writing guide.

Condition: Good. First Edition. First trade edition. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over darker blue spine cloth. Good, with oily stain and damage to rear cover, else light soiling and surface wear to covers. Previous owner bookplate to inside of front cover. The first trade edition of the notorious writing guide.