A Dictionary of Usage and Style: The Reference Guide for Professional Writers, Reporters, Editors, Teachers, and Students

Hawthorn Books, New York. 1965. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); light wear to head, tail, and tips; closed tears on top of rear panel; light suntoning to spine. Green cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine; Hawthorn emblem on the front board. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 452 pp 8vo. This encyclopedic guide to writing shows one hot choose all your "shots" and to score with each one. If one is a professional writer, reporter, editor, teacher, or student, this book will be as indispensable as one's typewriter. It will show immediately the correct, contemporary usage for thousands of rules, points of style, and commonly misused words. A clean very presentable in a Brodart mylar jacket. As useful today as it was in 1965.