Burgess Unabridged. A New Dictionary of Words you have always needed

by Gelett Burgess

$600 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

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Later edition first published in 1941 . With Cover Designs and Illustrations by Herb Roth. 1 vols. 12mo. Pictorial boards. Near fine copy, with only a large fragment of the dust jacket present. Item #40835 Inscribed on the front pastedown to New York columnist Leonard Lyons: Motherwords / to / Leonard Lyons / my pet columnist / and specialist in Paradox and Antithesis. / Gelett Burgess.

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