By Eric Partridg
London   Phoenix House
7" by 4.5" 46, [1]pp
The scarce first edition of Eric Partridge's booklet discussing the changes to the English language.
By Eric Partridg

1957 English Gone Wrong

London   Phoenix House
7" by 4.5" 46, [1]pp
The scarce first edition of Eric Partridge's booklet discussing the changes to the English language.
£44.00
: 0.5kgs / : 870A5

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Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition of this work. A scarce booklet. Eric Partridge discusses the English language with focus on 'debased English' and 'communist English'. 

From 'A Background Book' series edited by Stephen Watts, concerned with contemporary affairs and questions.

Eric Partridge was a New Zealand-British lexicographer of the English language.

Condition

In the original publisher's coloured wraps. Externally very smart with light wear to extremities, minor mark to front wrap, affecting through to p 7. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.

Very Good

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