Language Made Plain

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. Very Good +/Good +. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 185pp. Publisher's maroon dust jacket with price intact ($3.95). Boards full bound in light mustard cloth with red and white stamping to spine. Dust jacket generally toned, scuffed, creased, and rubbed with minor tears to margins and soiling to back panel. Spine sunned and verso toned with tape repair to both panels and minor tape abrasion to spine. Boards lightly dust-soiled with light bumping to corners and spine ends; shelfworn. Binding lightly cocked but firm and top edge lightly soiled. Endsheets offset and toned by glue but otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Good or better dust jacket of Burgess's investigation of the English language.