Pre-Owned There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life (Hardcover 9780684824550) by Charles Harrington Elster

9780684824550. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. A word lover's delight of unusual and unusually useful words and their definitions, There's a Word for It! offers a delectable lexical feast served up by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee". The book also contains a dazzling selection of light verse by such famous (and fabulous) scribes as Hogden Gnash, Anais Numb, and G.B. Pshaw.