John Ciardi Collection SUBGROUP I: Books A BROWSER'S DICTIONARY. Gift from Judith Ciardi. A BROWSER'S DICTIONARY: A COMPENDIUM OF CURIOUS EXPRESSIONS &INTRIGUING FACTS. Pleasantville, NY: The Akadine Press, 1997. Identified as A Common Reader Edition. Paperback. A BROWSER'S DICTIONARY: A COMPENDIUM OF CURIOUS EXPRESSIONS &INTRIGUING FACTS. Hardcover. First edition. A BROWSER'S DICTIONARY: A COMPENDIUM OF CURIOUS EXPRESSIONS &INTRIGUING FACTS. Hardcover. First edition. A SECOND BROWSER'S DICTIONARY AND NATIVE GUIDE TO THE UNKNOWN AMERICAN LANGUAGE. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Hardcover. Signed first edition. Signed by Ciardi on front endpaper. Above and below his signature in another ink is an inscription from the dedicatee of the book, Constance Erskine Caraway, to the female aviator Frances Nolde commenting on how this is the third book Ciardi had dedicated to her. A SECOND BROWSER'S DICTIONARY. First edition, second printing. Gift from Judith Ciardi or Myra. A SECOND BROWSER'S DICTIONARY: A COMPENDIUM OF CURIOUS EXPRESSIONS & INTRIGUING FACTS. Pleasantville, NY: Akadine Press, 1997. Identified as A Common Reader Edition. Paperback. GOOD WORDS TO YOU' AN ALL-NEW DICTIONARY AND NATIVE'S GUIDE TO THE UNKNOWN AMERICAN
LANGUAGE. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Hardcover. Posthumously GOOD WORDS TO YOU. Second copy. First edition. A THIRD BROWSER'S DICTIONARY: A COMPENDIUM OF CURIOUS EXPRESSIONS & INTRIGUING FACTS. Pleasantville, NY: Akadine Press, 1998. Identified as A Common Reader Edition. Paperback. Originally published as GOOD WORDS TO YOU. |