Language Made Plain

London: The English Universities Press, 1964. Near Fine/Very Good +. London: The English Universities Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); v, 186pp. Publisher's pink and purple illustrated dust jacket with price intact (21/-). Boards full bound in black and white woven cloth with dark purple stamping to spine and blind stamping to front cover. Dust jacket generally scuffed and creased with dust soil to back panel, light toning at margins, and minor bumping to spine ends. Verso of flaps offset from boards. Board corners and spine ends very lightly bumped. Light offsetting to endsheets and pencil to bottom of back pastedown. Pages clean and uniformly toned. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good or better dust jacket of Burgess's investigation of the English language.