Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (English and Latin Edition)
Focus, January 2001. Trade Paperback. More
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Yale Class of 1948 Fortieth Anniversary Yearbook
Calhoun College/ Yale Univ. January 1988. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clean, unmarked, light surface wear. Includes 1988 listing for George H.W. Bush (and extended family) while he was still Vice President. Cover page has picture of the Yale bulldog over the text 'Celebrate in 88'..... More
Collins Tracing Your Irish Family History
Harpercollins Reference Hbacks, January 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A Fine copy in jacket. More
American Heritage College Dictionary
Houghton Mifflin College Div, January 1993. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A VG copy in a VG mylar protected dust jacket. Jacket has minor rubbing and edgewear. Clean and tight copy. More
A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language: Comprehending the Explanation, Pronunciation, Origin and Synonymes of Each Word; An Epitome of History, Biography, and the Useful Sciences
George Virtue, 1848. Leather. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco over plum cloth, spine with raised bands and gilt tooling, covers bordered in gilt, upper cover features gilt figures representing the arts, all edges gilt (some rubbing to binding; text dampstained and foxed).Engraved Illustrations..... More
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Little Brown, January 1980. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Attractively bound in custom 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands (very slight wear). More
Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Sources Passages an d Phrases in Common Use
Little, Brown, 1879. Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Attractively bound in contemporary blue 3/4 polished calf over marbled boards, spine with red morocco label, raised bands, and gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, marbled edges and endpapers (rubbing and wear). More
Polite Life and Etiquette: Or. What is Right and the Social Arts
Louis Benham & Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original white pictorial boards stamped in gilt and green with faux-crocodile grain, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers (boards and spine rubbed; white-out on front endpaper).B/w Illustrations. More
An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric
Jacob B. Moore, 1827. First Edition. Leather. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. VERY NICE PROVENANCE: I) Signed and inscribed on front endpaper to noted American poet, Librarian of Congress, and Professor of Rhetoric Archibald MacLeish, by prominent fellow educator Dr. Richard Heathcote Heindel: 'to Archibald MacLeish, inspirer of..... More
The Superior Person's Book of Words
David R. Godine, Publisher, January 1985. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very light shelfwear to DJ; clean copy. More
Excelability in Advanced Latin: A Workbook for Students (Teacher's Guide) (English, Slovak and Slovak Edition)
Bolchazy Carducci Pub, January 2003. Trade Paperback. More
Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe
Harper Paperbacks, August 2006. Trade Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. A VG copy. Light wear to curling wraps. Ink mark to bottom of textblock. Overall a tight clean copy, More
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
Melville House, October 2006. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Clean, tight, unmarked. 160 pp. More
Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Berkley, October 2013. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition. Tight binding. Creasing to spine. Crisp, clean pages. 286pp. More
Casual Lex: An Informal Assemblage of Why We Say What We Say
Thomas Nelson Publishers, May 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A VG+ copy. Light wear. More
Wellingtons, Bloomers and Sandwiches, Or, How Did It Get That Name
Pan Macmillan, January 1976. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light wear and rubbing to wraps. More
Collaborations: Strategies for Readers and Writers
Harcourt College Pub, January 1992. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some wear; ex-library copy with markings. More
The Pronunciation of Standard English In America
Oxford University Press, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original red cloth stamped in gilt (spinea bit sunned, cloth has minor spotting and wear). A great gag gift. Think about it. More
How to Write a Book Proposal
Writer's Digest Books, February 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG+ trade paperback. Very light wear. More
Dictionnaire etymologique, ou origines de la langue francoise, par Mr. Menage. Nouvelle edition revue & augmentee par l'auteur. Avec les origines francoises de Mr. de Caseneuve: un Discours sur la science des etymologies... Volume I
Chez Briasson, 1750. Leather. Oversized Folio. Volume I only. Oversized folio (15 3/4 inches tall). Bound in period fulll brown calf, spine with raised bands and gilt floral tooling, edges red, marbled endpapers (boards rubbed; joints split but solid; top compartment of spine chipped away; some foxing and minor marginal..... More
The Art of Phonography: a Complete Instructor in the Best Method of Shorthand...
G. P. Putnam's Sons, January 1900. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cheap Reading copy. Original green cloth stamped in gilt (heavy soiling and wear; ink names; inner hinges splitting; text browning). More
American Fashionable Letter Writer, Original and Selected, Containing a Variety of Letters on Business, Love, Courtship, Marriage, Relationship, Friendship, Etc with Forms of Complimentary Cards to the whole are prefixed directions for letter Writing...
G.W. Cottrell, 0000. Hardcover. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind (some staining and wear to cloth; some foxing to text). More
Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. Volume II. English and Spanish
Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1849. Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Volume II only (of 2). Period full brown calf, spine with twin black morocco labels (general light wear; some foxing). More
The Million Word Crossword Dictionary
Easton Press, 2005. First Edition. Leather. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Full blue leather stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. A very good copy, with no wear to leather; gilt foredge has some evidence of wear from use. More
A book of Striking Similes: Little Blue Book No. 1354
Haldeman-Julius, 0000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Original green printed wraps (some fading, light wear). More