The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White [SECOND EDITION / HARDCOVER] • 1972

The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White 

SECOND EDITION [1972] MACMILLAN PUBLISHING CO.

6th printing / 1975.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   

Dust jacket has some wear and tear to edges but is fully in tact; housed in a new archival quality dust jacket protector. 

Book itself is beautiful; clean unmarked pages that read as new.  Short gift inscription from the 70's on front endpaper.

Second Edition with revisions, an introduction and a chapter on writing by E.B. White.

According to the St. Louis Dispatch, this "excellent book, which should go off to college with every freshman, is recognized as the best book of its kind we have".It should be the ". . . daily companion of anyone who writes for a living and, for that matter, anyone who writes at all."  "No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume.