A dictionary of Americanisms on historical principles

by Mitford M. Mathews

$55 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951 . First edition, 4to, 2 vols.; pp. xvi, 1946 continuous pages, text in double column, illus. in text; good and sound in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, though worn at extremities and a little shaken. The first dictionary to deal exclusively with those words and meanings of words which have come into the English language in the United States jacket blurb . Item #29249

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