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New York: Galahad Books, 1993. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine(-) DJ with very light edgewear mostly to top edge; o/w DJ is clean and free of tears and major shelfwear; board are clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; edges of pages are clean; binding is tight and square./very good +. Octavo in dark blue boards with gilt titles to spine and off white paper in tan-brown dust jacket; illus.; 988 pp., 24 cm. In English. || Abstract: This volume contains entertaining trivia about clichés, word origins, historic events, classical literature, and frontier humor used in the English language. It reveals the sometimes surprising, often amusing, and always fascinating roots of more than 2,000 vernacular words and expressions. From "kangaroo court" to "one-horse town", from "face the music" to "hocus-pocus," it tells the stories of hundreds of these sayings and the circumstances that brought them into our everyday speech.

New York: Galahad Books, 1993. First Galahad Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear; o/w dust jacket is clean and free of creases and tears; books is clean and unmarked; pages are bright and free of creases; a gently used copy./near fine. Octavo in blue and white board in tan dust jacket; b&w illus.; 988 pp., 24 cm. In English. || Abstract: "This enormous collection of almost one thousand pages contains the four previously published bestselling titles, A HOG ON ICE, THEREBY HANGS A TALE, HEAVENS TO BETSY! and HORSEFEATHERS. Dr. Funk has taken... over 2000... curious words, expressions and sayings that we use in our daily speech and traced them back through the years to find their amusing, practical an dsurprising origins." --jacket flap; "This volume contains entertaining trivia about clichés, word origins, historic events, classical literature, and frontier humor used in the English language. It reveals the sometimes surprising, often amusing, and always… Read More

Rio de Janeiro: Ministério da educação e cultura, Serviço de documentação, 1957. Paperback. Near Fine with slightly sun-faded wraps and bumped corners else clean.. Octavo in B&W paper wraps. 129 p. [Acq. 1923-69] ; In-4° (25 cm). In Portugues.

Addis Ababa: Self-published, 2013. Paperback. Quarto in green and orange wrappers (green spine); b&w illustrations; 144 pp.; very good(+) copy; wrappers are lightly worn; first few and last leaves are lightly bumped at the top and bottom open corners; o/w pages are clean and crisp; binding is tight; a solid, gently used copy.

Cambridge, Eng. ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Paperback. Very good(+) to near fine copy.. Octavo in red wrappers; 171 pages ; 24 cm.; light edgewear to wrappers; two-inch light crease to cover; o/w wrappers are clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square; a gently used copy. In English. || Abstract: "Standard Arabic - the language of educated discourse throughout the Arab world - presents difficulties beyond those encountered in most foreign languages. Though today it is increasingly being popularised, it remains essentially an elitist, 'learned' language. It has been used without substantial change for over thirteen centuries, in regions as distant as Spain and China, in fields as diverse as poetry and medicine, mathematics and theology. Its morphology and syntax are largely constant, but vocabulary, sense, idiom and style often vary widely. Arabic script requires a good deal of intelligent guesswork: long vowels and diphthongs… Read More

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. First printing (number line). Hardcover. As new; very fine; unread. No jacket, as issued.. Small quarto in maroon cloth, gilt titles; xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index. Series: Illinois medieval Studies / Contents: 1. Questions in Prose and Verse -- 2. Phrasal Coordination and Apposition -- 3. Clausal Ond -- 4. Clause-Initial Adverbs and the "Ambiguous" Adverb/Conjunction -- 5. Clause-Initial Verbs and the Continuity of Reference -- 6. Uncontracted Negation as a Cue to Sentence Structure in Old English Verse -- 7. Perfecting the Old English Past. // "In Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax, Mary Blockley uses modern linguistics to tackle the thorny problem of how to interpret a written language that relied neither on punctuation nor on capitalization to mark clause boundaries and subordination." "Distinguished by a remarkable combination of erudition and lucidity, Aspects of Old English Poetic… Read More

Stockholm: A. Sigurdssons förlag, 1902. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Mild rubbing to spine head and foot, gently bumped and rubbed corners, light soiling to boards and fore-edges, ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else Good(+).. Sky blue small octavo, 155 pages. In Swedish.

Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1986. Second edition. Paperback. Very good(+) to Near fine(-) copy with very light wear to wrappers: edgewear; a 2" crease on cover and a bumped corner at the cover lower spine; previous owner's name neatly written small in pen across on inside front cover; edges of pages are lightly soiled from handling and dust; o/w wrappers are clean; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks, creases and notes; binding is tight; a gently used copy.. Octavo in green and white wrappers; 460 pages ; 22 cm. In English. || Series: Journal for the study of the New Testament supplement series 26.

México, 1948. 4. ed. Paperback. About very good to very good+ with gently rubbed front and back panels and head of spine, minor foxing to back panel, else clean.. Octavo in tan paper wraps. 122 p. port. 23 cm. In Spanish. Maya language. First ed. pub. 1912 under title: Compendio del "idioma yucateco."

Monachii: Lipsiae in aedibvs K.G. Saur, 2001. Paperback. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, light fading to spine, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corners, sparse pencil to few pages, else Near Fine(+).. Small orange octavo, xix, 105 p, 20 cm. In Ancient Greek. || Classical, Literature.

São Paulo: Mandarim, 1997. Paperback. Near Fine with slight bumped corners, else tight and clean.. Octavo in yellow, red and white paper wraps. 255 p. ; 26 cm. In Portuguese. Portuguese language -- Word formation -- Dictionaries -- Figures of speech.

[Philadelphia]: [National Pub. Co.], 1895. Students edition. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing and mild fraying to head and foot of spine. Mild rubbing to surface and corners of boards. Moderate bumping to corners of boards. Cracks to end papers at hinge. Previous owners name in ink to dedication page. Very mild soiling to covers. Else pages clean. Good.. Hardcover quarto in faded green blue boards. xvi, 512 pages, b/w illustrations, plates (some color) 22 cm. Delsarte system. Recitations.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1958. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good(+) copy and DJ. Ex-library with stamps on front endpaper and edges of pages; clipped DJ; adhesive residue on front and rear paste-down paper and DJ flaps from when DJ was fixed to boards; wear to edges of DJ with one small closed tear on top front; gently worn copy considering ex-library; very nice; pages are fine, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is square and tight./very good +. Large octavo in blue cloth in grey and white dust jacket; 678 p., 25 cm. Scarce.

Téhéran: Centre commemoratif Saïd Naficy, 1985. Nouvelle re-impression. Hardcover. Very small chips to corners of head and foot of spine. Very mild bumping to corners. Else pages clean and binding tight. Very good(+). || Supplement has moderate crease to middle of covers and mild rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Else pages clean and binding tight. Also very good.. Hardcover large light brown quarto with blue details and gilt title to spine. 2 volumes, 1181 pages and 1097 pages, ; 25 cm. + Paperback blue quarto, 92 pages, 24 cm. In French and Persian. Scarce. || Includes grammar supplement: Aide Memoire de Grammaire Francaise || " ... le présent dictionnaire est-il une reproduction de sa première édition d'il y a un demi-siécle ..."--Préface a la nouvelle re-impression. || Originally published in 1929. || French language -- Dictionaries -- Persian.

Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, 1974. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. Very gentle rubbing and fraying to spine head, extremely mild rubbing to corners, light spotting to fore-edges, faint soiling to covers (mostly to front cover), price stamp to title page (front free endpaper), about very good.. Orange octavo, black spine, x, 418 pages, 23 cm. Series: Studies in Chinese terminology, no. 16. Chinese language -- Grammar.

Barcelona: Narciso Ramirez y compañía, 1866. Hardcover. Good only. Spine backstrip parlty (largley) re-attached with archival glue. Minor worming to boards and a single worm 'trail' mostly through outer margin of first third of leaves. Foxing and browning throughout. A good only copy worthy of a new binding. Ex-libray with minimal stamps and labels.. Octavo, burgundy boards, 208p. ; 22 cm. Includes indexes. In Spanish and Hebrew. Scarce. Only three listings in WorldCat. // Hebrew language -- Grammar. Hebrew language -- Chrestomathies and readers.

Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1986. Second edition, Third printing. Hardcover. Near fine copy. DJ is glued down to boards on the pastedown sheets and will not be removed; boards appear to be clean and free of fraying with just a bit of dust soil to edges; DJ has very light signs of wear around the edges but has no tears or major wrinkles; pages are like new: clean, crisp and free of marks, creases, notes; binding is tight and square.. Duodecimo in brown cloth in gilt text to spine and tan, laminated dust jacket; 562 pp., 19 cm. In English.

Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2000. Paperback. Near fine with faint edge-wear. Clean and tight.. Octavo in black illus wraps; xiii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176). In English and Indonesian. || Indonesian language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English. Indonesian language. Bahasa Indonesia. Textbooks -- for English speakers.

Sage Publications, 1991. 4th ed. Hardcover. Fine with spine label.. Quarto in glossy purple boards; xiii, 391 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Inscribed by author to Donald Glaser, Nobel laureate in Physics, 1961. For more books from Glaser's library you may search using keycode DGLSR. || Evaluation -- Dictionaries. Évaluation -- Dictionnaires anglais. Evaluation. Evaluatie. Sociale wetenschappen. Évaluation -- Dictionnaires. Evaluation -- Dictionnaires. Évaluation. Evaluation. Évaluation - Dictionnaires anglais. Evaluation. Dictionaries. Reference.

Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2010. Paperback. Fine, very slight rubbing to bottom edge, otherwise as new. Yellow octavo; 252 p. Cambridge library collection. Classics; "Charles Wordsworth's Graecae Grammaticae Rudimenta in Usum Scholarum was, for decades, the foundational Greek grammar in England. Wordsworth, a nephew of the poet, a master at Winchester College and later bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dublane, used his expertise in teaching the classical languages to produce a clear, practical introduction to Greek, beginning with the alphabet and progressing through the declension of nouns and adjectives, the conjugations of verbs, and the fundamentals of syntax. In striving not to replace the standard Eton Grammar but rather to refine and revise it, Wordsworth succeeded in composing a book that one fellow master called 'most distinct, easy of conception for the boys, and lucidly arranged'."