Merriam Webster, January 2016. Trade Paperback. An all new edition of the best-selling dictionary covering core vocabulary of everyday life. New words added from a variety of fields. More than 70.000 updated definitions. Includes pronunciations, word origins, synonym lists, and over 8,000 usage examples aid understanding. Over 50 Million Copies.....
Merriam Webster, January 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An all new edition of the best-selling dictionary covering core vocabulary of everyday life. New words added from a variety of fields. More than 70.000 updated definitions. Includes pronunciations, word origins, synonym lists, and over 8,000 usage examples aid understanding. Over.....
Bantam, October 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This definitive edition of the original Robert's presents rules of order, motions, debate, conduct of business, and adjournment. All problems of conducting a successful meeting smoothly and fairly are resolved.
Sourcebooks, Inc., October 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The Amazing Secrets of the Phrases We Use Everyday Phraseology is the ultimate collection of everything you never knew about the wonderful phrases found in the English language. It contains information about phrase history and etymology; unusual, lost, or.....
British Book Centre, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 140 pages. First American edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Random House, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete set -- these were the only two volumes published. Volume 1, A - G (1006 pages); Volume 2, H - O (736 pages). 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First editions (first printings). Fine copies in price-clipped dust jackets. A large, heavy 2-volume set.
West Coast Print Center, 1979. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated. 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. A type specimen with each font demonstrated with a paragraph from John Steinbeck. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 2002. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Completely revised from the previous edition. Increased page count More dictionary entries - 61,000 total 13,000 thesaurus entries 3,000 new dictionary terms, such as biscotti, dot.com, gene therapy, home page, no-brainer, portobello mushroom, skybox, surgicenter, veggie Revised design.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2015. Hardcover. A new copy. Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common.....
Prentice Hall Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback.
Huntington Press, 1930. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 195 pages. Limited to 999 copies. Printed by William Edwin Rudge. First edition thus. A very good copy in glassine wrapper. Wrapper with chips. In slipcase with label on spine.
Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 366 pages. 'A complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major national literature or cultural tradition in the world' -- from the front flap. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Oxford University Press, 1990. Hardcover. 826 pages. Reprint edition with corrections, 1990. Near fine copy in blue cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on spine. A unique reference work, this international dictionary is a systematic, comparative survey of the origins and meanings of some 100,000 currently used surnames of European.....
Sherwin & Freutel, 1970. Hardcover. 9 by 13-1/2 inches. Facsimile of the 1743 edition, published posthumously. Junius was a German philologist whose work served as a source for Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. A fine copy; no dust jacket. A large, heavy book.....
Good Books, October 1987. Trade Paperback. 96 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Here is a book for anyone tired of speaking flat, colorless, homogenized English. Pennsylvania Dutchman Gary Gates provides a glossary, read-aloud section, songs, recipes, and more in this delightful, inwaluble introduction to Dutch-ified English. Learn the meaning.....
Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., January 2006. Hardcover.
Princeton Review, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Getting a high score on the GRE Literature in English Subject Test isn't about memorizing every book and lit crit article ever written-it's about targeting how you prepare for the exam itself. We teach you only the information you'll need, along with the best.....
Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover.
Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover.
Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover.
Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover.
Octavo, 2005. First Edition Thus. Unknown. 3 CD-ROM set. 'This Octavo Edition, which marks the 250th anniversary of the work's publication, features searchable defined words (some 45,000), as well as Johnson's 1747 'The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language.' - from rear of CD case. First edition thus.....
HarperCollins, January 1990. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A useful and delightfully eccentric book of words and phrases for conversational champions and would-be champions, by the author of Remarkable Words with Astonishing Origins. Illustrated.
Random House Inc, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. The "only" historical dictionary of slang -- spanning three hundred years of slang use in America.
Passport Books, June 1990. Trade Paperback.