Language Made Plain by Burgess Anthony (37 results)

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Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition. 186 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery Good Copy, Cover has discoloration, dent, small hole on front and creasing. pages are clean and tan, 12 mo, 206 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Grey, textured cloth boards; blind stamped pbl logo on front; author in purple with title & pbl in white in purple boxes on spine. Cut edges foxed. Endpapers clean bar the odd mark. Text block tight; prelims slightly foxed; other pages clean; Contents Page at front; Bibliography & Index at end; book contains; b/w illustrations. Unclipped dust jacket has minimal wear round edges; author & title in white & light pink illustration on purple front; author, title & pbl in light pink on purple spine; list of related books on slightly grubby back; info about book on front flap.

First edition. 8vo, vii,186pp. Endpapers, half title and edges spotted. Original cloth, dust jacket a little shelf worn, foot of spine chipped, rear panel spotted. G+/G.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 186pp. Original publisher's two-tone cloth lettered and blocked in purple at the spine. Edges and free endpapers spotted. A very good copy in toned, spotted and lightly rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's scholarly study of the English language and the history of the alphabet. Laid-in is a signed typewritten note on 'Sunday Telegraph' headed note paper, addressed to Stephen Potter and signed 'Tony'. A former dealer has suggested that this missive is from Burgess, but that seems doubtful.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Loosely inserted signed typed note from the author to Stephen Potter on The Sunday Telegraph headed paper. Very light fading to top and bottom edges, otherwise near fine in slightly edge-rubbed and faded, very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In un-price-clipped protected wrapper, edge worn at top and bottom of spine and yellowed on back cover.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 186 pages. 'I have a feeling that many other people whose trade is with words are not sufficiently concerned with finding out what words are. They are happy to join words together but not, in my view, interested in analyzing their sounds, forms, and meanings.' Perhaps prefiguring the invented language of A Clockwork Orange, Burgess invokes examples from languages both European and Eastern. First American edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with minor wear at the top of the spine. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 185pp. Publisher's maroon dust jacket with price intact ($3.95). Boards full bound in light mustard cloth with red and white stamping to spine. Dust jacket generally toned, scuffed, creased, and rubbed with minor tears to margins and soiling to back panel. Spine sunned and verso toned with tape repair to both panels and minor tape abrasion to spine. Boards lightly dust-soiled with light bumping to corners and spine ends; shelfworn. Binding lightly cocked but firm and top edge lightly soiled. Endsheets offset and toned by glue but otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Good or better dust jacket of Burgess's investigation of the English language.

HARDCOVER. Condition: FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. FIRST EDITION. WRAPPER DESIGN BY PETER YEOWELL BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS SOME TONING AND LIGHT RUB, WITH MODEST FADE TO THE SPINE PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition. DJ not price clipped, shelf wear, edge wear and tear on spine; some soil from handling. Tan cloth, nicely bound boards w/ some soil, foxing on text box edge. Clean, bright pages throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated first printed 1964, copyright 1964, small bump on bottom edge , very slight edge wear on dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A fine copy in price-clipped, else fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. A very good+ copy in a Vg. dj. (Traces of light soiling to yellow cloth covers. Mild erasure at head of front endpaper. Shallow chipping at spine ends. No loss to titles. Spine on dj. not discolored! A few short edge nicks & mild rubbing) An uncommon title.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. London: The English Universities Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); v, 186pp. Publisher's pink and purple illustrated dust jacket with price intact (21/-). Boards full bound in black and white woven cloth with dark purple stamping to spine and blind stamping to front cover. Dust jacket generally scuffed and creased with dust soil to back panel, light toning at margins, and minor bumping to spine ends. Verso of flaps offset from boards. Board corners and spine ends very lightly bumped. Light offsetting to endsheets and pencil to bottom of back pastedown. Pages clean and uniformly toned. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good or better dust jacket of Burgess's investigation of the English language.

First American edition, 8vo, pp. 186; text illustrations; original cloth in plum printed dust jacket; shallow chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text; interior fine. "Language that makes a difference--the subtleties of sounds, words, meanings--explained by a leading British novelist" - jacket cover.