Arguments for Inconciseness with Instances of the Disadvantages of Brevity

Los Angeles, CA: Wm. M. Cheney, 1954.

12mo. 6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches. 25 pp. Title page printed in brick-red and black inks, 3 decorations in red on title page, brick-red initial, 2 brick-red woodcut illustrations; text clean, unmarked. Parchment paper over boards, printed in brick-red ink; binding square and tight, toned, foot of spine lightly bumped. SCARCE. EE516-279. Very Good.

FIRST EDITION. Cheney's essay on rhetoric and literary style is filled with his characteristic tongue-in-cheek humor. The second illustration on page 19 is of a train; it is captioned "I do not have a fire engine cut."

REFERENCE: Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker, No. 38. 12 copies OCLC; none currently on offer in the online marketplaces.