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.....
The University of Chicago Press, 1956. Hardcover. 1946 pages. 50,000 entries of American additions to the English language. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good 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.....
Princeton Architectural Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods.....
Gale Research Company, 1967. Hardcover. 528 and 428 pages. Facsimile of the 1889 edtion published by the Ballantyne Press, with a new introduction for this edition. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Very good copies; no dust jackets. Former owner's sticker on front pastedown (partially removed in Volume.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2015. Hardcover. 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 words to provide.....
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.....
Harper Perennial, May 2020. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media. We live in.....
Disinformation Books, November 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Russ Kick has proved himself a master at uncovering facts that they would prefer you never hear about. The rapid success of the largeformat Disinformation Guide series edited by Kick has only whetted a roaring public appetite for more.....
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.
Rivington, Percival & Co., 1896. Hardcover. 392 pages.
World Almanac, November 2019. Trade Paperback. Get thousands of facts at your fingertips with this essential resource. The World Almanac(R) and Book of Facts is America's best-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been.....
Merriam-Webster, Inc., January 1995. Trade Paperback. Carry along a convenient guide to word choice. - Covers more than 3,000 synonyms - Explanations of meanings make word choice easy - Easily fits in briefcase or book bag.
CollinsRef, July 2002. Trade Paperback. The revolutionary achievement of Dr. Peter Mark Roget's first edition in 1852 was the development of a brand-new principle: the arrangement of words and phrases according to their meanings. Dr. Roget's system brings together in one place all the terms associated with a single thought.....
Touchstone, September 1972. Trade Paperback. With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should.....
John Wiley & Sons Inc, May 2002. Trade Paperback. 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 affords greater readability.....
Passport Books, June 1990. Trade Paperback.
Gotham, April 2004. Hardcover. We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots.....