Brown hardcover with gold-color lettering on spine, x, 304 pp., unclipped illustrated jacket. Mild shelf wear, faint remains of removed price label on front free endpaper, text is slightly age-toned otherwise unmarked, tight binding, nice jacket.

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Title: Cliches and Coinages (Language Library)
Publisher: Basil Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0631156917
ISBN 13: 9780631156918
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First U.S. Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Redfern (French, U. of Reading) follows his successful Puns (Blackwell) with this equally vigorous exploration of literary license in the fields of literary history, advertising, the media, propaganda, and everyday life. Throughout, practice and theory are compared and contrasted in the English, American, and French tradition. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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