THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: A PRELIMINARY INQUIRY INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH IN THE UNITED STATES
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. Hard Cover. Octavo. x, 374 pp. Limited first edition, numbered 892 of 1500 copies. In publisher's cloth lacking the dust jacket. An indifferent copy, spine titling dulled to illegibility; general soiling and light shelfwear; contents are clean; a couple leaves roughly opened.