Insights on very first use of the book (1998 3rd edition): It has a some odd phrases, like Total Communication...but is packed full of other more useful signs too....decently easy to understand with the descriptions and the pictures, but I'll need to see a lot of them visually or in way more detail to produce them correctly. It is strictly a dictionary, and is a revised and expanded abridged version of AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE from 1962.
This dictionary shows pictures of each sign.