Search Results: Language & Linguistics from Ariel Books

Auckland, New Zealand: Unity Press, 1955. The Nggela Islands, also known as the Florida Islands, are a small island group in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands and lies immediately north of the more famous island of Guadalcanal. CONDITION Red cloth is bright and unworn, 271 pages are bright and crisp. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: Unity Press, 1955. The Nggela Islands, also known as the Florida Islands, are a small island group in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands and lies immediately north of the more famous island of Guadalcanal. CONDITION Red cloth is bright and unworn, 271 pages are bright and crisp. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: MacMillan & Co., 1893. 9th reprint by the Professor of English Language and Literature, Glasgow University. Covers the use of language, punctuation, verse writing etc. Red cloth boards with black titles and sunned spine. Some page browning and minor foxing to endpapers. pp 128. Otherwise a very tight book with clean bright text.. Re-Issue. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. Authors Edition. Not Dated (c1890) Elaborate Victorian bindings in Purple cloth bds with Black embossed Title and borders, bright Gilt spine title and decoration, mostly fresh though spine head and mid spine have some chips to cloth, Blue decorated eps, pp viii 542, interior is tight and incredibly bright, not inscribed.. Re-Issue. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: John Russell Smith , 1869. Purple blind embossed bds with bright gilt spine title, insect damage causing a couple of small nicks to inside edge o/w unworn, pp viii 232. Copy is very bright and crisp with odd dust spot.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Guilbert Pitman, 1910. Covers reporting on anything imaginable including accidents, shipwrecks, religion, sports, social functions etc. Stiff Paper wraps with pastedown title label to front (clean with sl chipping to title edges) pp vii 178 plus catalogue to rear, printed on art paper, bright and clean not inscribed. An excellent copy.. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Australia: Australian National University Press, 1978. Language from the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Blue bds with crisp incised gilt titled (bright and unworn) pp xi 514 plus publishers cat at rear, map to front and illus through text. DJ unworn. OVERWEIGHT. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: Leightons, 1943. Tongan language primer. Thin card wraps stapled, 16 pages. Toned to edges, drip mark to front, a chipped at spine ends, internally clean. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Wanganui, New Zealand: A D Willis , 1920. 9th Ed. Maori phrase book. Not Dated [1920 NZNB K460] Grey card wraps, 43 pages. Clean copy with split to bottom quarter . Re-Issue. Card Covers. Good/N/A. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Wanganui, New Zealand: A D Willis , 1915. 8th Ed. Maori phrase book. Not Dated [1915 NZNB K459] Grey card wraps, Grey card wraps, 40 pages. Toned with some finger marks, chipped to spine ends, crisp copy. . Re-Issue. Card Covers. Good/N/A. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Wellington, New Zealand: Geo Didsbury Govt Printer , 1875. Written by Archdeacon William Leonard Williams 3rd Bishop of Waiapu and noted as the most learned scholar in Maori culture. Pt 2 sections VI-XVI (1st part published 1873). CONDITION Salmon papered bds with cloth spine, clean with ‘duplicate’ written top front cloth split along spine, 71 pages nice and clean internally, ‘duplicate’ written at top of title page with stamp and inscription bleached out. Loose due to wear of spine cloth otherwise a very nice copy of a rare item. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/N/A. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hamilton, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcade, 1961. Maori poems each translated by the author. CONDITION hand set and printed at the Caxton Press. Card wraps with DJ fixed at spine, 78 pages. Copy is bright and crisp with toning to DJ. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney, 1956. Card wraps, 48 pages. Original taped spine has been re-taped. Cover a little toned o/w a very nice copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Fiji: Fijian Government , 1941. Tan bds with bright title (unworn) 94 pages, bright and crisp as new. Only faults are gift inscription to front pastdown and slight mark to rear bd.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Fiji: Fijian Government , 1941. Tan bds with bright title (some marks) 94 pages, a little spotted to ends, some pencil marginalia to rear index, odd small mark internally,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon & Blair , 1885. Rare variant Blue cloth binding commonly purple of tan cloth. Blue cloth with Red title (faded with the odd small mark) 197 pages a bit loose with some atmospheric toning, mostly nice copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Australia: University of Queensland, 1979. Australian based university lecturer, bridging the gap between scholarly linguistic theory and todays' issues of general, social, political and educational importance. CONDITION Yellow bds with black title, unworn, Orange eps, inscribed, pp 216+, tight and unread, original yellow wrapper is unworn. An excellent copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Zealand: Oxford University Press, 2008. Maori language learning has created a need for new words to describe contemporary ideas. Designed to make the new vocabulary created by the Maori Language Commission more widely accessible. With new words for specialist terms not published elsewhere. CONDITION 12mo Softcover, 289 pages. Copy is bright and crisp with slight mark to leading edge partial crease to front cnr.. Re-Issue. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Auckland, New Zealand: Huia, 1991. Full Series of 4 readers for the students of Kura Kaupapa Maori and the Maori studies departments of secondary schools and universities. Consists of articles, stories, waiata, haka, poems, and plays in Maori. CONDITION Unworn copies illus with colour art, only faults is previous onwers name stamp inside front.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Triete, Italy : Jos, Geistinger , 1820. Bound in Full Leather with Black tooling and Pink cameos showing Ferdinando Rothbauer Studies in Grammar CLassics (shown to front, title at spine, gymnasium seite stadien anno 1820 at rear, end papers decorated with wood block printed decoration in red and black, Pp xvi 890, 204 with the first part being dictionary section in two column layout, glossary of context latin to German and Lations in rear section, engraved head and tail pieces to enach section. leather is rubbed with slight loss at spine ends and starting to split at ends with some creasing, considering age and that is is a high school edition it is only moderately rubbed, faded ink number to ffep and first blank. Copy is tight and crisp mostly very bright with a little age toning. Overweight. Re-Issue. Full-Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.