PAYTON, GEOFFREY — Webster's Dictionary of Proper Names

Springfield, Massachusetts: G. & C. Merriam Company, [c.1970s]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0877790833. A useful reference book, the purpose of which, per compiler Geoffrey Payton's preface, ".is to help readers through the barrage of proper names with which we are all daily bombarded." Names of all sorts are included, from book, play and movie titles to historic names, places and historic figures. --- In full bright green cloth-covered boards with titling in silver to cover & spine. Possibly published c.1970s date, though 1970 date appears in book. Volume lacks the dust jacket --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy lacking damages worthy of mention.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [10], 752, [2] pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .