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Eats shoots & leaves by lynne truss5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Dustwrapper is unclipped and excellent with only minor shelfwear. ![]() ![]() The point she was making with this strange book title is that commas, COMMAS can change the meaning of a sentence in English and therefore that the comma, and other. I can’t guess how many copies are out there by now. In the original publisher's half cloth over white paper boards binding. Eats, Shoots and Leaves the book The book I was reminded of is called ‘Eats, Shoots And Leaves’ and it was written by Lynne Truss and published in 2003 in the UK. First published in April of 2004, Eats, Shoots and Leaves spent 25 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list and by October of that year had gone back to press 22 times to bring the total of copies in print to a million. With this volume, the author wants to remind our society of the importance of punctuation, often forgotten in this world of Internet, emails, and "txt msgs." A great success in the U.K., it was reprinted in America the following year in 2004.?The dedication to this book reads "To the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution."With unclipped dustwrapper. A brilliant book on punctuation and how to use it by Lynne Truss, former editor and host of BBC Radio 4's?Cutting a Dash. The first American edition, fourth impression. A signed and excellent first edition copy of this popular book on grammar by former editor Lynn Truss. ![]()
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