Alpha Editions, June 2020. Trade Paperback. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as.....
Riverhead Books, September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. An absolute delight! --Hank Green The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If.....
Harper Perennial, 1999. Trade Paperback. 242 pages. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally.....
Denoyer-geppert Company, 1929. Hardcover. 18 pages. Illustrated with full page color maps adapted from large wall maps. Third revised edition. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Previous owners signature to front free endpaper.
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.....
(n.d.). Hardcover. Facsimile edition. First published ca. 1698. 'Useful for all sorts of people (especially foreigners to secure their money and preserve their lives; besides being very diverting and entertaining being whilly new' -- from the title page. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Rebound; paper over boards a......
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.....
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.
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.....
Prentice Hall Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback.
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.....
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.
Merriam Webster, January 1995. Trade Paperback. An alphabetically organized, cross-referenced compilation of the etymologies of a sampling of frequently used English words.
N/A, September 2003. Trade Paperback. From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up.....