No Idle Words

First edition.  128pp.  Red publisher’s cloth-covered boards, black lettering front and spine. 12mo.  Cloth gently pushed at corners and spine ends.  Upper page block edge dust dull.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, shelf worn, rubbed at edges, a few flat creases, scuffed on corners and spine ends.

In this word-book, the fifth in Ivor Brown’s series, Brown tells of the meaning of words such as Fritinancy, Tamasha, Twach and Fantique: these are not slang words but ones which have literary status and it is always Brown’s way to quote passages of well-known poetry and prose where the words have been beautifully, surprisingly or amusingly used. A veritable treasure-trove for word lovers.