• The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - front cover
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - rear cover and spine
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - boards and page edges
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - front endpapers with owner names and handwritten verses
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - title page
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - copyright page and preface
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - dictionary pages
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - dictionary pages
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - dictionary pages with illustrations
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - dictionary pages
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - dictionary pages with illustrations
  • The Winston Simplified Dictionary, Primary Edition, 1927 John C. Winston hardcover - rear endpapers with handwritten verse
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The Winston Simplified Dictionary: Primary Edition

The Winston Simplified Dictionary: Primary Edition

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Book Notes: Green cloth boards heavily worn, with a large faded and stained circular area on the front board, frayed corners and spine ends, and a light spot on the rear board. Binding tight; pages toned with light spotting. Previous owners' names and addresses in ink and pencil on the front pastedown and front free endpaper (Harold Shaw, Argyle, N.Y.; Richard Shaw, Prospect Hill, Schuylerville, N.Y.; A. Peters), with handwritten verses signed "H.S." Handwritten verse in pencil on the rear free endpaper. Printing code "P-7-27" on the copyright page.

Author(s): William Dodge Lewis & Edgar A. Singer
Edition: Primary Edition

Print: P-7-27

Publication year: 1927

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: The John C. Winston Company

Condition: Acceptable
ISBN:

A shorter version of the Winston Simplified Dictionary for the earlier school grades and general readers, edited by William Dodge Lewis and Edgar A. Singer. It gives self-contained definitions with illustrative sentences, large type, phonetic respellings with a pronunciation key on each page, and pictures chosen for their teaching value.

This copy is the 1927 John C. Winston Company Primary Edition, Philadelphia, hardcover, illustrated.

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