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Ounce, dice, trice / by Alastair Reid ; drawings by Ben Shahn.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection PR6035.E4 O8 1958
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Alastair, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puns and punning.
- Physical Description:
- 57 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
- Edition:
- [1st. ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, 1958.
- Summary:
- A collection of old and new words, including those to be said in singing moods, words for times of day, and rude names for nitwits. Defines such words as gongoozler, tantony, and cosse.
- Notes:
- "An Atlantic monthly press book."
- Contains words poems designed to be spoken out loud.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Pub. gray cloth stamped in brown with white color-printed pictoral dust jacket
- OCLC:
- 252663
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