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Bryson, Bill
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That WAy
Publisher: New York 1990.
Very Good- in Good dust jacket William Morrow & Company Fifth Printing Hardcover Board corners lightly bumper. Indentations at the top of a few pages are evidence that a paper clip was once used at a bookmark. No writing or underlining. Dust jacket has some light spots and indentations (as if someone used it as a solid surface to write on), and there are many creases and small tears on its edges and corners. ; 8vo; 270 pages; Tells the story of the history of the English language. Very readable for even those who are not academics.
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Item number: 3553.
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Funk, Wilfred John, 1883-1965.
Word Origins and their Romantic Stories.
Publisher: Bell Pub. Co., NY [1978] [c1950].
432 p., index, 23 cm.; page edges browning, dj has small closed tear; VG. 35258 {ns}.
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AUD 9.80 | CAD 10.02 | EUR 7.58 | GBP 6.41 | JPY 909.09 | MXN 111.11 | ZAR 90.09 |
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The Owl at the Bridge.
Item number: 35258.
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Girsdansky, Michael
The Adventure of Language
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963..
347pp. red & black cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a near Very Good dj.
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AUD 4.89 | CAD 5.00 | EUR 3.78 | GBP 3.20 | JPY 453.64 | MXN 55.44 | ZAR 44.95 |
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Auldfarran Books, IOBA.
Item number: 14854.
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Green, Jonathon
Chasing The Sun Dictionary Makers And The Dictionaries They Made
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, 1996.
423 p. Traces the story from the first lexicon created in pre-Babylonian Sumeria to the pinnacle of the Oxford English Dictionary. Stock #100,483. Fine/fine. Reference Language
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The Owl at the Bridge.
Item number: 100483.
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Hertzler, Joyce O.
A Sociology of Language.
Publisher: Random House, NY [1965]. 'First Printing'.
'…the first comprehensive analysis, in English, of the reciprocal relationship between language and human society.' Contents include The Centrality of Language in Human Existence; The Basic Concepts Involved in a Sociology of Language: A Paradigmatic Treatment; The Major General Functions of Language; Language as a Social Phenomenon and Social Agency; Language as a Social Institution; Language as Sociocultural Index, Record & Determinant; Sociocultural Change & Changing Language; The Uniformation & Extension of Language: Historical, Contemporary; Language as a Centripetal Factor in Human Societies; Language as a Centrifugal Factor in Human Societies; The Language of Social Control & the Social Control of Language; Social Differentiation & Linguistic Specialization in the Language Community (I, Theoretical Orientation; the Dialects; II, The Special Group & Technical Languages; III, The Languages of the Social Classes); Language & the Individual; Plural Lingualism in the Modern World; Sociology of Writing; Mass Communication, Language & Modern Society. 559 p., index; dj spine faded, a bit chipped; VG. 26049
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Item number: 26049.
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J. R. (Rosenman, Jacques)
Primitive Speech and English - Volume 1
Publisher: San Felipe Press Austin, TX 1969.
xii, 112 pp, brown cloth covered boards w/dark brown lettering on the spine & front cover. The bulk of this work is concerned with 'Indo-european' languages . The author presents the basic factors underlying word comparison adn the invention and manufacture of words. No Jacket Hard Cover Near Fine Sm4to from 9" to 11"
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AUD 25.00 | CAD 25.55 | EUR 19.32 | GBP 16.35 | JPY 2,318.18 | MXN 283.33 | ZAR 229.73 |
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Curio Corner Books.
Item number: 038898.
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Limon, John
Writing After War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.
NF paperback. Decorative cover with minimal edge wear, mark of old price sticker on front, some dark marks on back. Binding tight. End papers and pp look unused. 8vo, 255 pp with notes and index.
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AUD 12.09 | CAD 12.35 | EUR 9.34 | GBP 7.90 | JPY 1,120.91 | MXN 137.00 | ZAR 111.08 |
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CRBooksellers.
Item number: 8690.
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Parlett, D. S.
The Teach Yourself Books. A Short Dictionary of Languages by D. S. Parlett.
Publisher: English Universities Press, London [c1967].
154 p.; 18 cm. A guide to "several hundred major languages and language groups... selected for their political significance, cultural value, and historic interest to present day civilizations." Contents include Key to Phonetic Script; Key to Symbols and Abbreviations; Brief Geographical Survey of Language Distribution; Languages of the United Nations; Statistics; Language Guide to Europe. Ex library with the usual impedimenta & release stamp; front dj corner clipped; in mylar; VG. stock#44638.
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Item number: 44638.
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Pei, Mario.
THE STORY OF LANGUAGE.
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott [Philadelphia]. 1949. (1949)..
1st edition, 1st printing. 493pp. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with the title & author's name in gilt within a black panel on the spine. The top & bottom of the panel are gilt-ruled & have undulating gilt bands. Foreedge uncut. Index. Gilt on the decorative portion of the spine is worn with about half missing, small section along the top of the back cover is worn o/w Very Good, i.e. some signs of careful use with no significant defects/ DJ (front top edge has two 1/8' tears; spine faded with extremes very worn; back cover has a 1/2' edge tear on the top & bottom edges, a 1 1/2' x 1/2' waterstain on the top edge, a puncture & a small stained area).
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AUD 1.47 | CAD 1.50 | EUR 1.14 | GBP 0.96 | JPY 136.36 | MXN 16.67 | ZAR 13.51 |
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Henry F. Hain III.
Item number: 95-0196.
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