The Transitive Vampire: a Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager & the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1984

The Transitive Vampire: a Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager & the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon 

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK [1984] TIMES BOOKS

Mint trade paperback.  Like new and seemingly unread. 

Playful, practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit & black humor. Black-&-white illustrations throughout.

Introduction
Sentences & what we mean by them
Words & what kinds of words they are
Nouns
Verbs
Verbals
More on verbs
Adjectives & adverbs
Pronouns
Arriving at agreements
Phrases
Clauses
Fragments
Comma splices
The creation of sentences