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The New University One-Volume Encyclopedia
by Dunham, Franklin (editor)
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New York: New University Encyclopedia Div. [1967]. (4to) 830pp. Very good in good to very good dust jacket. (Encyclopedia). Item Price
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The American Language; An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States; Supplement II
by Mencken, H.L.
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New York: Alfred A Knopf 1962, 6th printing. (Small 4to) 890; xliii. Very good in very good dust jacket. Notes, index. The dust jacket is edgeworn, has closed tears at the top of the spine and is price-clipped. Locale: United States. (Language, English Language, Language). Item Price
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The American Language; An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
by Mencken, H.L.
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New York: Alfred A Knopf 1937, 4th edition, Corrected, enlarged, and rewritten. (Small 4to) 769; xxix. Very good in very good dust jacket. Notes, appendix, index. Lightly edgeworn and a large chip missing from the dust jacket at the top of the spine. Locale: United States. (Language, English Language, Language). Item Price
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The Complete Plain Words
by Gowers, Ernest
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London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1958. (Hardcover) 209pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Bibliography, index. (Language, English, Style). Item Price
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Origins; A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
by Partridge, Eric
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New York: Greenwich House 0-517-414252 [0-517-414252] 1983. (Hardcover) 972pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Language, Dictionaries, Etymology, Language, Reference, Word Origins). Item Price
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Three Cheers for Pooh; A Celebration of the Best Bear in All the World
by Sibley, Brian
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London: Egmont [1-4052-2911-X] 2006. (4to paperback) 127pp. Near fine. Black and white and color illustrations, photographs. Book about Winnie the Pooh. (Books About Books). Item Price
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Dictionnaire Quillet de la Langue Francaise; Dictionnaire Methodique et Pratique Redige Sous la Direction de Raoul Mortier (3 Volumes)
by Mortier, Raoul
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Paris: Librairie Aristide Quillet 1961. (Hardcover set) 2132pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Three volumes. Decoratively stamped pebble-grained cloth. Text in French Language. (Dictionaries, Dictionaries). Item Price
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Language Visible; Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
by Sacks, David
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Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada [0-676-97487-2] 2003, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 395pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations, map bibliography, index. (Language, Alphabet). Item Price
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Slang; To-Day and Yesterday
by Partridge, Eric
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New York: Bonanza Books [no date]. (Small 4to) 476pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Notes, index, glossaries. 'With a short historical sketch; and vocabularies of English, American, and Australian slang'. Locale: Australia; England; United States. (Linguistics, English Language, Slang). Item Price
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature; A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors from the Earliest to the Present Times. In Two Volumes. (2 Volumes)
by Chambers, Robert
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Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers 1844. (Hardcover set) 672, 717pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. 3 / 4 leather with gilt lettering, gilt decoration and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpapers and edges, illustrations, index. The boards are worn with some chipping to the spine labels, some pages spotted. (Dictionaries,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Antique Linguae Britannicae Thesaurus: Being a British, or Welsh-English Dictionary: Containing Some Thousands of British Words More Than Any Welsh Dictionary Hitherto Published...To Which is Prefix'd a Compendious and Comprehensive Welsh Grammar, ...A Large Collection of British Proverbs.
by Richards, Thomas
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Dolgelley: Gomerian Press 1815, 3rd edition greatly improved. (Hardcover) 476pp. Good, no dust jacket. The covers are worn. Text in Welsh and English. (Dictionaries, Dictionaries, Language, Proverbs). Item Price
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The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days
by Ali Baba and the Bunch (Contributor Elbert Hubbard.)
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Roycrofters 1914. (Hardcover) 172pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Beige paper over brown gilt decorated leather spine, and with device in gilt on the front board. All pages embellished with color vignettes in keeping with the style of the Roycrofters. The corners are worn. Contributors include Elbert Hubbard. (Dictionaries, Dictionaries, Roycrofters). Item Price
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Idiom Savant; Slang As It is Slung
by Dunn, Jerry
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New York: Henry Holt and Company [0-8050-5094-9] 1997, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 296pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Locale: United States. (Language, English Language, Slang). Item Price
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English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners with an Appendix, Containing Rules and Observations, for Assisting the More Advanced Students to Write with Perspicuity and Accuracy
by Murray, Lindley
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Utica: William Williams 1831. (Leather binding) 264pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Plain tan full-leather binding. (Language, English Language, Grammar). Item Price
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A Splendor of Letters; The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
by Basbanes, Nicholas A.
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New York: HarperCollins [0-06-008287-9] 2003, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 444pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Notes, bibliography, index. A remainder mark on the bottom edge. (Books About Books, Book Collecting, Books--History, Censorship, Libraries). Item Price
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Japanese for Today
by Yasuo, Yoshida
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Tokyo: Gakken Co. 1973. (Hardcover) 399pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Chart and map endpapers, ribbon marker, illustrations, photographs, appendices, index. Lightly edgeworn and a previous owner's name inside. (Language, Language Instruction--Japanese). Item Price
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The Word's Gotten Out; Being a Gallimaufry of Reactions to Thoughts from Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Speeches, Conversations, and Letters; Including Also Certain Remaining Memories; A Word Puzzle or Two; The Usual Array of Espy Knittelverse (Called Doggerel by the Uninformed); And a Great Deal of Excellent Advice....
by Espy, Willard R.
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New York: Clarkson N. Potter [0-517-57061-0] 1989. (Hardcover) 354pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations, answers, index. "With the Word's Gotten Out, Willard R. Espy - word maven, punster, and raconteur extraordinaire - serves up a delightful romp through the English language. This is a book for everyone who loves language and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Glyph-Breaker
by Fischer, Steven Roger
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New York: Copernicus [0-387-98241-8] 1997, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 234pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Color photographs, tables, diagrams, bibliography, index. "When he successfully deciphered the rongorongo script of Easter Island - the mysterious system of glyphs in which the island's Polynesian inhabitants had recorded their ritual chants and songs - Steven Roger… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Grand Panjandrum & 1,999 Other Rare, Useful, and Delightful Words and Expressions
by Hook, J.N.
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New York: MacMillan Publishing Co. [0-02-553620-6] 1980. (Hardcover) 392pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Lightly edgeworn and there is a small closed tear with a narrow chip missing from the bottom edge of the dust jacket front panel. "Join a noted linguist on a treasure hunt for the hidden riches… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog; The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
by Florey, Kitty Burns
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Hoboken: Melville House Publishing 978-1-933633-10-7 [978-1-933633-10-7] 2006. (Hardcover) 154pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, notes, diagrams. "In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: 'It was a bit like art, a bit like… Read more about this item Item Price
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