Author: Compton, Alfred Donaldson.
Title: First Aid in English.
Description: New York: The City College Store, 1940. 1940. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in light gray stapled wraps, titled in black on the front cover. The edges of the covers are soiled and darkened with minor creases and with a short tear to the top edge of the front cover. A previous owner's name is faintly penned in red at the top of the front cover with the date & location of the final exam penned in blue at the bottom. [ii] & 81 pages plus a 2 page index. The previous owner's name is penned in red on the title page with his notes as to final exams penned in blue on the rear blank. Good. "Revised Edition". RARE. "This pamphlet is intended as a guide to some matters with which students in New York have trouble, not as a systematic grammar or rhetoric, nor as a guide suitable for all parts of the country. It is not intended that the book should be used as a textbook, but rather as a guide to which students found deficient in any matter may be referred, and a summary that students should study by themselves."- from the preface. The book includes a list of "symbols used in correcting themes" printed on the verso of the front cover as well as an index to the "correction chart". Good .
Keywords: LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE; ENGLISH; ALFRED DONALDSON COMPTON; THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK; FIRST AID IN ENGLISH; SYMBOLS USED IN CORRECTING THEMES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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Title: First Aid in English.
Description: New York: The City College Store, 1940. 1940. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in light gray stapled wraps, titled in black on the front cover. The edges of the covers are soiled and darkened with minor creases and with a short tear to the top edge of the front cover. A previous owner's name is faintly penned in red at the top of the front cover with the date & location of the final exam penned in blue at the bottom. [ii] & 81 pages plus a 2 page index. The previous owner's name is penned in red on the title page with his notes as to final exams penned in blue on the rear blank. Good. "Revised Edition". RARE. "This pamphlet is intended as a guide to some matters with which students in New York have trouble, not as a systematic grammar or rhetoric, nor as a guide suitable for all parts of the country. It is not intended that the book should be used as a textbook, but rather as a guide to which students found deficient in any matter may be referred, and a summary that students should study by themselves."- from the preface. The book includes a list of "symbols used in correcting themes" printed on the verso of the front cover as well as an index to the "correction chart". Good .
Keywords: LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE; ENGLISH; ALFRED DONALDSON COMPTON; THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK; FIRST AID IN ENGLISH; SYMBOLS USED IN CORRECTING THEMES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 97264
- Book number: 97264
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