Search Results: Dictionaries & Language Study from Classic Books and Ephemera

Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 2007. Paperback. Fine. Third Edition. x, 784, [6] p.; 20 cm. Paperback. One of Barron's Foreign Language Guides. Printed in blue and black throughout. Includes French and English indices. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

New York: McGraw Hill, 2012. Paperback. Near Fine. viii, 296 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes list of verbs, exercises, and answer key. In Near Fine Condition: front cover curves up; clean and bright -- unused.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. "One-volume abridged edition." [2], xxv, [1], 777, [1], cxxiv, [4] p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. top page edges green. Dust jacket with design based on an original by W. A. Dwiggins; price-clipped. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. Book is in Very Good+ Condition: fore-edges slightly soiled; 2 underlined words; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; head of spine chipped; price-clipped; clean and bright.

New York, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. iii, [1], 32, [2], 555, [1], 640-668 p.; 25 cm. Paperback. With cd inside back cover. In Near Fine Condition: lower corners lightly creased; clean and tight.

New York: McGraw Hill, 2012. Paperback. Near Fine. Second Edition. iv, 32, [2], 667 p.; 26 cm. Paperback. Includes English-Russian verb index, irregular verb index, and Russian verb index. The Russian text is in the Cyrillic alphabet. In Near Fine Condition: upper page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. iii, [1], 38, [2], 555, [1], 647-700 p.; 25 cm. Paperback. With cd inside back cover. In Near Fine Condition: a few pencilled underlines in the first pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

Breinigsville, Pa: Pennsylvania German Society, 1975. Hard Cover. Near Fine. xiii, [1], 119 p.: portrait of the author, in-text line drawings; 24 cm. Publisher's white cloth with black cover title and illustration, and black spine series identification. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, v. 9. Contents: Introduction -- Preface -- Dedicatory poems -- Bilder aus der Yuchend (Pictures of youth) -- Gnarrelecher (Knotholes) -- Riwwle -- Lewesaasichde (Philosophies of life) -- List of poems. Poems in Pennsylvania German with English summaries. In Near Fine Condition: cover very slightly soiled; spine very slightly darkened; otherwise clean and bright.

New York: Jemima M. Mason, 1840. Hardcover. Very Good -. 716 p.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red leather label in second compartment: "Blackwood's Magazine." Remains of small paper label at head of spine. Five issues bound together, each with its title page. Front fixed endpaper bears the bookplate of the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College, indicating that the volumes were acquired by the library in 1841; the bookplate is signed by librarian W. L. Spotswood. Blue oval stamp of Dickinson College Library below the bookplate. "Union Philosophical Society" written at head of first title page. Contents include reviews of Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau ("Miss Martineau's genius is essentially feminine, though its vigour and reach are those of a man"), and of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik; and articles on the plagiarism of Samuel Taylor… Read More

New York: Taintor Brothers & Co, 1888. Hardcover. Good +. xii, 191 p.: illustrations of geometric shapes; 19 cm. Black cloth spine; brown paper over boards printed in black. Cover title: Reading Speller: A New Method of Teaching Spelling. Cover imprint: New York: Text Book Company Publishers. Includes words in both print and script, and maxims in script. Lessons are arranged by subject. Although the Text Book Company copyrighted this title in 1883, this undated edition by Taintor Brothers & Co., at 18 and 20 Astor Place, New York, could not have been produced before 1888, when Taintor began publishing at that address under that form of their business name. In Good+ Condition: cloth is rubbed through along upper back joint; corners are heavily rubbed; minor loss of paper over boards along edges; lacking front free endpaper; old repair of both hinges; title page and pp. 10-11 are soiled; otherwise pages are clean and tight.

London: SAGE publications, 2019. Paperback. Very Good -. xvii, [1], 326 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. In Very Good- Condition: cover is lightly soiled; occasional highlighter and ink notations in first third of book; otherwise, clean and tight.

Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987. Paperback. Near Fine -. xv, [1], 131 p.; 24 cm. Paperback; red covers with white spine and cover titles. In Near Fine- Condition: edges rubbed; upper corner of front cover lightly creased; clean and bright.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Eighth US Edition. "The Only Dictionary Available with Complete Coverage of Latin-American Spanish" -- dust jacket. xlv, [3], 1036, [2], 63, [4], 1042-2141 p.; 27 cm. Grey cover with black spine title. Orange dust jacket with title: Collins Spanish Unabridged Dictionary. Orange endpapers. Abbreviations, field labels and style labels on back endpapers. Printed in black and blue throughout. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and bright.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. Vol. 4 only: xii, 568 p., 1 folded map of the world according to Hecataeus; 22 cm. 19th-century polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather labels in second and third compartments with gilt-tooled title "Literature of Ancient Greece" and volume number. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments; double gilt-ruled border on each board, which have gilt-tooled coat-of-arms of Winchester College in the center with motto "Manners makyth Man." Boards have gilt-decorated edges; all page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Engraved bookplate on front fixed endpaper with image of an angel overpowering a devil, reading "69, Kingsgate St. House Library." Moberly's House, at 69 Kingsgate St., is one of the oldest boarding houses at Winchester College. Gift inscription to C. W. Musgrave Burton on blank page following front endpapers dated… Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1837. Near Fine. [1], 250-296 p.: tables; 29 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. "Communicated to the American Philosophical Society, 6th March 1835." Includes Errata on p. 296. Father Najera (1803-1853) was a linguist who was in exile in Philadelphia from his native Mexico in the 1830s when he presented his important study of the Otomi language. the study was first published separately in 1835, prior to its appearance in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. In Near Fine Condition: disbound from a larger volume; clean and bright.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1987. Paperback. Very Good +. 259, [13] p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Publisher's advertisements on final 10 unpaginated pages. An amusing correspondence in German and English. In Very Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Hardcover. Fair +. 4th edition. iv, 116 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary calf. Publisher's advertisement on title page verso and final 3 pages. In Fair+ Condition: lacking most of leather over spine; back board almost detached; leather is scraped; a few pencil marks on the first few pages; otherwise, clean; text block is solid.

S.l.: Scholar Select, 2015. Hardcover. Near Fine. This is a reproduction of the copy presented to the Harvard College library by the author, which was published in Edinburgh by Thomas Clark in 1831. [4], xi, [1], 144 p.; 24 cm. Brown and black hardback with white spine and cover titles. In Near Fine Condition: cover is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.

Paris: J.B. Garnery, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. "Contenant les Synonymes de Girard; Indiqués par le Grand-Maître de l'Université de France pour l'usage des Colléges; et Ceux de Beauzee, Roubaud, Dalembert, Diderot, et Autres é Écrivains Célebres. Nouvelle Edition, Corrigée sur les Éditions originales de chaque Auteur, avec une Table alphabétique. de L'Imprimerie Stereotpye d'Adrien Égron." 2 vols: [4], viii, 543 p.; [4], 559, [1] p.; title vignette on each title page; 18 cm. Full calf with six gilt-tooled spine compartments. Red leather labels in second compartments bearing gilt-tooled title and in fourth compartments bearing gilt-tooled volume number. Gilt rule along edges of all boards. Marbled endpapers. Half title of each volume bears ink gift inscription to Lacy Rumsey, dated 1817. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed, with some flaking along spines; small tear in leather at head… Read More

Munich: Hermann Lukaschik, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good -. [4], 39, [1] p.: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Leather spine with dark brown pebble-grain paper over boards. Green leaf-pattern endpapers. Austrian Arabist and archeologist Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) was one of the first Europeans to explore South Arabia and is still considered the most important scholar to have studied Yemen. Very scarce. In Very Good- Condition: leather lacking along spine, but boards are still attached; edge of boards rubbed; scattered page soiling; solid.

Halle, Germany: Renger Buchhandlung, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good. xiv, 330 p.; 17 cm. Original dark brown paste-paper boards with original handwritten grey paper spine label. All page edges speckled red. Front free endpaper bears two inscriptions: "W.B. Schulte 1946" and, in an older hand, "Jenisot." Front fixed endpaper bears small bookplate of Alexander McQueen [not the fashion designer], and larger bookplate of the Academy of the New Church Library. At the foot of the title page is a small stamp reading: Charles S. Cole, Jr., Bryn Athyn, Pa. In Very Good Conditon: cover is rubbed; scraped at tail of spine and next to tail of spine; pages are clean and tight.