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.....
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.
Random House Reference, June 2008. Trade Paperback. The perfect pocket reference library for home, school or office. The set includes: - Random House Webster's Pocket American Dictionary, Fifth Edition - Random House Webster's Pocket American Thesaurus, Second Edition - Random House Webster's Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, Second Edition...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 927 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with light, uneven fading to the spine. Dip into the Dictionary of American Regional English and enter the rich, endlessly entertaining, ever-changing world of.....
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.....
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.....
Polygon, 1999. Trade Paperback. Later printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). The Concise Scots Dictionary contains: * Meaning* Spelling variants* Pronunciation* Information on when and where words are used* Grammatical information* Idioms and phrases* Etymologies* Details of Scottish life then and no.
Philosophical Library, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 682 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket with edge and corner wear, small edge chips, scuffs and closed short tears.
PRC Publishing, December 2001. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Travel back to a time when North America was largely unexplored and mapmakers could not rely on computers or aerial photographs. Featuring more than one hundred beautifully crafted antique maps and charts, previously available only to researchers.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.
Passport Books, June 1990. Trade Paperback.