Search Results: English Language from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York, Evanston, & London: Harper & Row, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth, white titles with red double rule on spine, grey endpapers, xi, 303, [1] pp. Corners & spine ends rubbed, a few scuffs on front board, owner's signature rubber-stamped on title page & ffep. DJ has just a hint of edge-wear; in Brodart archival cover. This book focuses on choosing the best words to achieve a simple & direct style of writing. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Sara Crichton Books (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 2008 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on title page. Maroon board, foil titles on spine, [ix], 364, [3] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Alphabet Juice "celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. ... It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is 'arbitrary.' " And it's a lot of fun to read. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect bound in mostly dark green card covers with white & tan titles, xlvi, 721, 28, [2] pp. Slight shelf wear, covers somewhat curled. Compact yet comprehensive guide to editing for proper grammar, syntax, punctuation and logic. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ed, 1st ptg. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 17½ X 12½ cm.

New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., Inc., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine & dec. on front board, x, 276 pp. Spine ends slightly rubbed. DJ has 1 cm tear to top of rear panel, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Alphabetical list of definitions, each followed by the word or words defined. This list is followed by an index to target words. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Boston, New York, Chicago, London et al.: Ginn & Company, 1922 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, black titles on front board & gilt titles on spine, xiii, 500, xxxix pp, 21 illustrations, index. Light shelf wear. Apparently a 2nd printing, code 629.2 on copyright page. High-school level text book. Shipping weight 2 lbs..

New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., Inc., 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, gilt titles on spine, [vii], 314 pp. Slight edge wear. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Collects acceptable pronunciations for 8000 words from four standard US desk dictionaries, uses a single phonetic alphabet for display, and gives a count of how many of the four dictionaries finds each pronunciation acceptable. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige leather-textured boards, green foil titles on spine, beige endpapers, xxxv, 262 pp. DJ has a couple of very small chips & spine is sunned; in Brodart archival cover. An introduction with general usage advice is followed by 1500 entries that explain distinctions in meaning among words found troublesome by many writers. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . Fine/VG+. 21 X 15 cm.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. 4th US Printing stated, book club deboss on rear board. Dark blue cloth, blind publisher's device and border on front board, viii, 742 pp. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, top edge a bit dusty. A classic reference for writers. Even if you disagree with Fowler's advice, it is usually interesting reading. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . VG/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

Boston, Toronto, & London: Little, Brown and Company, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on front board and spine, lvi, 1405 pp. Top corner of front DJ flap creased, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. No price on DJ, so may be a book club edition, but sturdily bound. Over 20,000 quotations arranged chronologically, with an index to authors and a 611-page general index organized alphabetically by important words found in quotations.. 16th Ed. . Fine/Near Fine. 26 X 20 cm.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter red cloth, grey paper-covered boards, foil titles on spine, xv, 392 pp, index. Signature of Dr. Richard C. Lillehei, who performed the first successful pancreas transplant, on recto of ffep. DJ has a couple of tiny tears & slight rubbing to top edge; in Brodart archival cover. Each chapter groups unusual words by subject, while the index lists all words defined and gives pronunciation. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). BCE. . Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1935. Blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xiii, 509 pp, 5 maps, 4 ff b & w plates, footnotes, index. Extensive pencil underlining, a few notes in ink, gilt titles rubbed, else very good. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 15th ptg. . Good/No dj. 22 X 15 cm.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Yellow & grey cloth-textured boards, black titles on spine, xii, 179 pp. Top corner of rear board bumped, spine ends turned in. DJ head of spine tattered, closed tears to 2 cm, extremities somewhat rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Smith takes a comic look at "the use and misuse of language at home and abroad." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/VG-. 21 X 14½ cm.

New York: Times Books, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine, 223 pp, 4 full-page cartoons. Head of spine beginning to fray, bottom edge bumped, otherwise clean & bright, remainder mark is a red dot on top edge. DJ has 2 tears under 2 cm, slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Jargon-to-English translations for business, politics, bureaucracy, espionage, law enforcement, media, computers, military, self-help, and the streets. If you read it straight through, you could use it as an English-to-Jargon translator (circa 1978). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G-/VG. Illus. by Stan Mack. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown leather-textured boards, gilt titles & decorations, xiv, 465 pp. Edge wear. DJ has small chips & tears; in Brodart archival cover. Samuel Johnson's plan in compiling his dictionary was to define words by quoting examples from English literature, and thereby to create an anthology as well as a dictionary. The editors' purpose in this abridgement dictionary "is to furnish the modern reader enough of the original work so as to give him some sense of the unique quality of this landmark of literature and learning. There would be no point in repeating ordinary definitions of words found in any modern dictionary, but where such a word is given an unusual sense or definition it is included. A large number of obsolete words are included, and we have given a selection of the examples...." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG-/G+. 22 X 15 cm.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xv, 279 pp, many small b & w decorations. DJ has a small tear to bottom of front panel, a couple of creases, price blacked out in ink; in Brodart archival cover. Contains 65 essays concerning English language usage and education first published in The Underground Grammarian. Photo on DJ rear flap shows author bending over a form of type with tweezers, evidently correcting an error. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey boards, blue titles on front board & spine, xx, 219 pp, glossary, bibliography, index. DJ has a few small nicks to edges; in Brodart archival cover. Guide to copy-editing to improve clarity and style by an editor for the Modern Language Association. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG+. 24 X 16 cm.

Glenview, IL, Boston & London: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Laminated brown & white boards, xx, 778 pp, index. Bookseller's promotional sticker on fpd, a couple of stray marks in ink on rpd. This book is both a textbook and a reference book on English language composition, grammar, usage, and style. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 4th ed, 1st ptg. . Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Full pale grey cloth with blue & gold foil titles, top edge dyed blue, viii, 214, [2] pp. Remainder mark is stamped in red on recto of ffep, sticker marks on ffep & title page. DJ torn at spine ends, bottom corner clipped from front flap; in Brodart archival cover. Collection of articles on the English language by an Italian-American linguist. Most were originally published in popular magazines from 1946 to 1966. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG+. 21½ X 15 cm.

Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, thumb-indexed, 38a, 1559, [1] pp. Gift inscription on ffep, else fine. DJ has a 1-cm tear and a 2-cm tear with small chip to top edge; in Brodart archival cover. Merriam-Webster is the corporate successor of Noah Webster's original company, and as such retains the original citation files which continue to be augmented. The tenth edition of the Collegiate Dictionary retains and expands the new features in the ninth edition, including the date of the first citation for most words, and the separate section for abbreviations. Other features carrried over from previous editions include a history of the English language, phonology, common foreign words & phrases, biographical & geographical gazeteers, and a handbook of style including forms of address. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. 10th Ed, later ptg. . Near Fine/VG. 25… Read More

New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco & London: Harper & Row, 1983 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine & device on front board, xi, 654 pp. Bottom edge of rear board bumped. Discursive histories of thousands of words and phrases, much more satisfying than the brief etymologies given in most dictionaries. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 6th ptg. . Near Fine/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.