New Directions, n.d., ca. 1951. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 450 pages. First edition thus. A very good copy in blue cloth covers. Spine is faded and covers are spotted with bumped corners and rolled spine ends. Dust jacket spine is faded and jacket margins are tanned. Rear jacket is spotted.....
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.....
Harmony, August 2014. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. "A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages."--Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar.....
Dorset Press, June 1995. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 445 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this.....
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.....
University of California Press, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. x, paginaged from 157 to 328, as issued. Map. University of California Publications in English, vol. 7, no. 4. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author on the cover, 'To Bud, with best.....
Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1911. Hardcover. 133 pages. Includes index not present in the first edition. Illustrated with black-and-white charts and diagrams. Fifth edition. Near fine hardcover copy in brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine; no dust jacket. Light bumps and wear to corners.
Almqvist & Wiksell, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 644 plus 6 pages of errata and corrigenda. First edition (first printing). One page with a repaired margin tear. Neatly bound in gold cloth, lacking the original wrappers.
Harvard University Press, January 1973. Hardcover. For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children-the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic.....