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.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, March 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. "Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the.....
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......
Merriam Webster, January 2016. Trade Paperback. 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 tables and special.....
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.
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.
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.....
David R Godine, October 2016. Trade Paperback. A perfect blend of humor and practical knowledge for word lovers. Build a superior vocabulary with 1,000 words--esoteric, arcane, archaic, unusual words with "real life" examples of how to deploy them. Includes definitions and practical advice on usage to confound your friends, irritate.....
Merriam Webster Mass Market, June 1989. Trade Paperback. An alphabetical listing of words, with synonyms, antonyms, definitions, and examples, includes cross references from all the words listed in each expanded entry.
Da Capo Press, September 2011. Trade Paperback. The 1990, ninth edition, of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the only currently authoritative volume to contain the complete Robert's Rules of Order subject matter. It has been totally reset and redesigned for easier use. This ninth edition supersedes all previous.....