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Hardcover, bound in full genuine black gilt-stamped leather binding. xvii, 524 pages. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Limited First signed and numbered edition, published by Easton Press, 1996. One of 1,500 copies, signed by Buckley, with COA (Certificate of Authenticity) and unused book-plate laid-in loose. Founder of the National Review and the rights’ most famous sesquipedalian pundit, no abstract can do justice better to this title than its own prolix subtitle: “About the Uses and Abuses of Language, and about Vocabulary; About Usage, Style & Speaking; Fiction, Diction, Dictionaries; with Reviews and Interviews; a Lexicon; on Latin & Letters, Eloquence & Journalism; and More, All Drawn from the Works of William F. Buckley, Jr., His Correspondents, His Critics, Friends, and Others.” A pristine copy, gift quality, new in shrink wrap.