Harper Perennial, February 2014. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide--a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While.....
Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, September 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We.....
Melville House, November 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Delve into the hidden nature of words: An irresistible mix of information, curiosity, and fun Linguist Vivian Cook takes us on a brilliant series of excursions into the history and meaning of words: How do we learn words as a......
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2015. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Some light red markings on the front of the jacket. Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help.....
Penguin Books, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds - including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach.....
Lilliput Pr Ltd, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A comprehensive reference work consisting of a series of mini-essays, informed by Latin and Greek and a deep knowledge of the humanities. This book tells you where words and concepts came from, examining the myth or history that clings.....
Penguin Books, November 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards, " a "parliament of owls, " an "ostentation of peacocks, " a "smack of jellyfish, " and a "murder of crows"! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar.....
Walker Books, 2009. Hardcover. Second printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Dilemma offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows.....
Riverhead Books, September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An NPR Best Book of 2022 "The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply researched, and great fun. . . . Science isn't easy.....
John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 2002. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A Unique Two-in-One Language Resource With More Than 61,000 Entries Discover the dictionary that is also a thesaurus. Unique in concept and design, this groundbreaking resource combines two great Webster's New World reference works in a single volume.....
Fall River Press, January 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Merriam Webster, January 2016. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The 2016 edition of our best-selling dictionary covering core vocabulary with new words added from a variety of fields. More than 75,000 updated definitions, pronunciations, word origins, synonym lists, and over 8,000 usage examples to aid understanding--more than ever before. Useful.....
Bartlett and Welford, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. 412 pages. Dictionary and appendix arranged alphabetically. First edition (first printing). Publisher's original brown cloth with embossed design and gilt lettering on spine. A very good copy. Some loss to the spine ends. Foxed most noticably at the endpapers. One (?) page with.....
STERLING, January 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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.....
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.
(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......
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.
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).
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.