Harper Perennial, January 2003. Trade Paperback. "An essay in origins ... as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past. McWhorter is a clear and witty writer."-- Harper's In the first book written for the layperson about the natural history of language, linguistic professor John.....
Privately Printed by Lintons Printers, Co. Durham, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 191 pages. B/W photographs. Book on Teesdale dialect. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Centre of Northern Studies School of Humanites University of Northumbria, 2002. Trade Paperback. Text, 144 pages; Survey, 145 pages. Second editions, revised, updated. Fine copies in wrappers (paperback).
W. Nicholson & Sons (No. 7) and Watmoughs Limited (No. 14), n.d., ca. 1900-1910. Trade Paperback. No. 7, 16 pages. No. 14, 16 pages. First editions (first printings), presumed. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Tanning and some wear to covers. Some rusting to staples on No. 14.
Yorkshire Publishing Press, n.d., ca. 1921. Trade Paperback. pp. 40-54. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated pink wrappers (paperback). Wear to covers with rust at staples. Scarce.
Oifig An tSolathair, 1966. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 107 pages. 45 r.p.m vinyl record in pocket at rear, titled: 'Coaga Fuaim Shamplach I nGaeilge.' First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in white wrappers (paperback) with red lettering. Vinyl record is near fine in sleeve. Mild soiling to covers.....
A. Asher & Co., 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. 103 pages. William Skagg (1801-1886), born in Dorset, was a polymath, linguist, poet and more. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; no dust jacket. Professionally and beautifully bound in marbled paper over boards and tan leather covers with 5 raised bands.....
S.P.C.K., 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Hand-Book: 95 pages; Elementary Exercises: 44 pages. Folding 'Table of Contents' opposite the title page. Hand-Book originally published in 1901. First edition thus. A very good copy in brown cloth covers with title in black on fron tcover. Edge and corner wear. Staining to.....
The A. B. M. Press (American Baptist Mission), 1945. Hardcover. 66 pages. Revised edition, originally published in 1883. Revised edition. A very good copy in white paper over boards and blue cloth covers with title on front cover. Mild soiling and edge wear. Title page with 2' closed tear. No.....
Religious Tract Society. Printed by Arthington Press, n.d., ca. 191? First Edition. Trade Paperback. 32 pages. 331 Chinese proverbs with English translations. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Covers with some soiling and tanning. Signature and date of prior owner on idex page. Bookplate of de Guinzbourg.....
Perennial, February 1995. Trade Paperback. In "The Language Instinct," Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, how it evolved. With.....
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue paper over boards and black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Sheet of 'further additions and corrections' enclosed. Covers mildly soiled, upper corners bumped. Edge wear. No dust.....
Cambridge University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 157 pages. Schuchardt is credited with founding the field of creole studies. Book is the first English translation of a selection of his most important essays. First edition in English (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket.....
Dorset Press, June 1995. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Academic Press Inc, October 1976. Hardcover.
The MIT Press, February 2000. Hardcover. A neuroscientist and a linguist show how evolution could have given rise to structured language. A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky.....
D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Hardcover. 236 pages. A very good hardcover copy half bound in leather; no dust jacket.
Mouton, 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 380 pages. The paperback edition precedes the hardcover edition (as is noted in the letter accopanying the monograph). Signed by the author on front free endpaper. First edition (first printing). Very good in purple wrappers (paperback). Front cover has scuffs and lower front corner.....
James Clegg, 'The Aldine Press', 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. 488 pages. Rochdale is a large town in the Greater Manchester area of England. First edition (first printing). Volume I (one * on spine). A very good copy in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Mile edge and corner wear.....
University of California Publications in Linguistics, 1944 and 1946. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Linguistics: Volume 2, No. 1, pp. viii, 1-192; Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-190; Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. iv, 191-374. The Kotas are people of South India in the Nilgiri Hills.....
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1948. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 42 pages. Reprint from the Supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Number 8, July-September, 1948. The Tocharian languages are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin. First.....
University of California Press, 1962. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 26. pp. x, 121. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in gray printed wrappers (paperback).
University of California Press, 1962. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 27. pp. xi, 90. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in gray printed wrappers (paperback).
University of Chicago Press, 1980. Trade Paperback. 242 pages. The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical.....
Harvard University Press, (1984). First Edition. Trade Paperback. 435 pages. Pinker's first book; lays out his theory of computational language acquisition. The seventh book in Harvard's Cognitive Science Series. Published simultaneously in hardcover. First edition (first printing). A near fine, gently read copy in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office.....