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Colonial American English: A Glossary
by Richard M. Lederer
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0930454197
- ISBN 13
- 9780930454197
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Verbatim Books, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Oversized hardcover. Presumed first edition. 267 pp. with bibliography, index. Fine, fresh example in fine dust jacket. A handy glossary that lists and defines more than 3000 words and phrases that were used in America during the colonial period 1608-1783. For example, learn what Thomas Jefferson meant by bthe phrase "rise at a feather"; what was meant by "sheep walk" inSouth Carolina in 1768; what a "jug of brown nappy" was in a 1728 song; what was meant when describing a maid the phrase used was "she di barnish apace"
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E18572B
- Title
- Colonial American English: A Glossary
- Author
- Richard M. Lederer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0930454197
- ISBN 13
- 9780930454197
- Publisher
- Verbatim Books
- Place of Publication
- Essex, Conn.
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- language, lexicography, etemology, entemology, speech, colonial, colonies, passim, phrases, sayings
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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