Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages
. University of Chicago Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint odor of smoke. Jacket spine head and spine base bumped. Pages lightly toned.
xi, 580 pp. "From Homer ("winged words") to Robert Burns ("Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung") to Rudyard Kipling ("Words are, of course, the.....