The state of the language /
Cooke, Alistair,1908-2004,author.
Frame, Ronald,former owner.StEdNL
Speech given by the author at a banquet of a conference of international English scholars held in San Francisco in November, 1979.
"'The state of the language' will be published by The Bodley Head in 1985 in Alistair Cooke's The patient has the floor. This extract is printed in an edition of 250 copies by The Stellar Press, Hatfield, for private distribution by the author and the publisher, December 1984"--Colophon.
Ink inscription on colophon page: Ronald - for Christmas, 1984 from Euan.