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The Blue Book Of Grammar and Punctuation
by Straus- Jane
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions.
The Grammar Of English Grammars With an Introduction Historical and Critical � and A Key To the Oral Exercises
by Goold Brown
Grammar Books & Ephemera
![Phrases in English and Japanese, elementary for the children. [Japanese title: 和英通語]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/985/473985164.0.b.1.jpg)
Phrases in English and Japanese, elementary for the children. [Japanese title: 和英通語]
by [Matsuoka, Saikiyo.]
[Tokyo]: Koumondou, 1872. First edition, 2 volumes (of 3); fukurotoji, 9.75" x 7", [4], 1-27; 27-55 leaves; original yellow wrappers with printed paper labels on the upper covers; stitching loosening on each of the volumes, but all else very good or better, in a new blue cloth folding box. Parallel text of vocabulary at the top of the pages and useful phrases underneath, employing the vocabulary. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies, 1991, no. C27.
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£1,163.66
Paralipomena of Korean etymologies ... Collected and edited by Songmoo Kho
by Ramstedt, G. J
Helsinki: Suomalais-Urilainen Seura, 1982. First edition, 8vo, pp. 295, [1]; printed from typescript; facsimile example of one of Ramstedt's etymologies in his handwriting; near fine in original printed green wrappers. Issued as no. 182 in the publisher's Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne series.
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£209.46
Hebrew chrestomathy. Designed as an introduction to a course of Hebrew study ... Second edition: with additions and corrections
by Stuart, Moses
Andover and New York: Flagg and Gould and J. Leavitt, 1832. 8vo, pp. vii, [2], 10-231, [1]; original purple cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine; spine sunned and extremities worn, upper joint cracked and cloth peeling; upper board creased; the occasional light dampstain, text otherwise good and sound. This copy with the ownership signature of "D. R. Goodwin / Andover / Theol. Sem. / 1834." Daniel Raynes Goodwin (1811-1890) "the ninth provost of the University of Pennsylvania, was born in North...
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£139.64
![童蒙英学手引草 [Doumou Eigaku Tebikigusa] = A primer of English](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/694/123/261123694.0.b.jpg)
童蒙英学手引草 [Doumou Eigaku Tebikigusa] = A primer of English
Tokyo: Aoyama-do, 1872. First edition, fukurotoji, 7" x 4.5", 16 leaves; with 4 Roman alphabets (upper and lower case and 2 styles of script), and a vocabulary in English with Japanese equivalents and pronunciations, all designed for the elementary Japanese student of the English language; original pink paper wrappers, printed label in Japanese on upper cover, sewn in the Oriental manner; some wear and soiling, early owner's annotation on rear cover and flyleaf; good copy.
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£418.92
Grundzüge der phonologie
by Trubetzkoy, N. S
Prague: Publié avec l'appui du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague et du Ministère de l'Instruction Publique de la République Tchéco-Slovaque, 1939. 8vo, pp. 271; black and white portrait frontispiece; later brown cloth-backed stiff wrappers, original wrappers mounted to covers; ex-University of Hawaii Library with usual markings, else very good. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague no. 7. The magnum opus of Nicolay Trubetzkoy (1890-1938), Russian linguist and founder of morphophilology. In this...
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£465.46
A dictionary of the English language: intended to exhibit I. The origin and affinities of every English word... II. The orthography and the pronunciation of words... III. Accurate and discriminating definitions... To which are prefixed an introductory dissertation on the origin, history, and connection of the languages of western Asia and of Europe; and a concise grammar..
by Webster, Noah
London: published by Black, Young, and Young, foreign booksellers to the King, 1832. First English edition, used by Webster as a template for his 1841 octavo, "reprinted by E.H. Barker, Esq. of Thetford, Norfolk, from a copy communicated by the author, and containing many manuscript corrections and additions: with an appendix by the editor"; 2 volumes, 4to; pp. viii, [i]-civ, plus unpaginated lexicon in triple column; [2] and unpaginated lexicon; the publisher's advertisements noted by Skeel have not...
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£3,258.24
Easy Malay grammar
by Hamilton, A. W
Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, 1940. First edition, 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 101, [1]; original printed boards neatly rebacked; very good. A.W. Hamilton (1887-1967) "was a colonial police officer who demonstrated a keen interest in the Malay language. He was a regular contributor to various magazines and journals during the colonial period. His writings, which encompass various aspects of the Malay language, Malay sayings and love charms, flora, fauna, feasts, and festivals, reflect his diverse interest in his...
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£32.58
Exercices pratiques d'analyse de syntaxe et de lexicographie Chinoise. Ouvrage où les sinologues trouveront la confirmation des principes fontamentaux et où les personnes les plus étrangères aux études orientales puiseront des idées exactes sur les procédés et le mécanisme de la langue Chinoise
by Julien, Stanislas
Paris: Benjamin Duprat, 1842. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 269, [1]; folding facsimile of a letter by Julien; recent orange cloth, gilt title on spine, original printed wrappers bound in; slightly later owner's signature on title and half-title, very faint underlining on a few pages, a couple pages foxed, else clean and sound, very good. "Along with Sebastien Couvreur and among 19th-century scholars of China, Julien's academic reputation was rivaled only by the Scottish sinologist James Legge, and no sinologist...
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£232.73
Synchronic essentials of Old English. West-Saxon
by Reszkiewicz, Alfred
Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1971. Slim 8vo, pp. 121; original red and tan printed wrappers, edges a bit bumped, pages uniformly toned, else fine. A revised and enlarged edition of the author's Old English Essentials (1964), written for Polish students of English philology.
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£69.82
Theoretisch-praktische grammatik der ungarischen sprache
by Töpler, Gottlieb Eduard
Budapest: Gustav Heckenast, 1859. Fifth edition, revised and corrected; 8vo, pp. xii, 318, [2] ads; edges curled, spine slightly defective with chips out at top and bottom, and the stitching is somewhat loose, otherwise a very good copy in the original brown printed wrappers. The work was apparently quite popular, having been first published in 1835 and reaching a seventh edition by 1882. Six in OCLC, only Ohio State in the US.
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£209.46
Noam Chomsky
by Lyons, John
New York: Viking, 1970. First edition, 12mo, pp. xii, [2], 143, [1]; paperback; light spotting on the top edge, else fine. An explication of Chomsky's grammatical theory, transformational-generative grammar, which radically changed the nature of linguistics studies.
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£18.62
Grammaire de la langue Bulgare
by Beaulieux, Leon
Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1950. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [3], x-xvi, 415, [1]; printed paper wrappers; upper wrapper perished, lower starting, spine chipped, owner's signature on flyleaf, one leaf chipped at bottom edge from contact with tape, not affecting text, textblock clean and sound, good.
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£27.93
A grammatical dictionary of Sanskrit (Vedic), I. phonetics. With a complete index to Wackernagel's Altindische Grammatik and Macdonnell's Vedic grammar
by Sūrya Kānta Sastri
Delhi: Moolchand Khairātī Rām Trust, 1953. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 290, [2]; original printed boards; a couple of small stains on the spine, bottom of spine chipped; all else near fine throughout. Volume I is apparently all that was ever published.
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£116.37
An improved and comprehensive school grammar; in which are equally regarded both the wants of the beginner and those of the advanced and critical student ... by a North American teacher
by [Greenleaf, Charles Edward.]
Gardiner, [Maine]: printed for the author by A.M.C. Heath, 1856. Square 8vo, pp. 24; bound with, as issued: Criticisms in etymology and syntax: or, a supplemental English grammar..., Gardiner: printed for the author by Morrell & Heath, 1856, pp. 48 (cancel slip pasted at the bottom of the verso of the last leaf); bound with, possibly as issued: An Appendix in English grammar, Gardiner: printed for the author by A.M.C. Heath, 1858, pp. 24; original brown cloth-backed orange paper-covered boards, printed...
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£558.56
Abrégé de la langue Toscane, ou nouvelle méthode, contenant les principes de l'Italien..
by PALOMBA, IGNAZIO
Lyon: les frères Périsse & Pierre Cellier, 1768. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 484, [4]; [4], 585, [1]; full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, spines rubbed and worn, joints a little cracked but otherwise a good, sound copy. The author is described on the title as being a professor of the Spanish and Italian languages in Paris. He was also the author of the popular Le secrétaire de banque, espagnol et françois, contenant la maniere d'écrire en ces deux langues des lettres de...
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£535.28
Altenglisches elementarbuch. Einfüh rung, grammatik, texte mit übersetzung und wörterbuch...Vierte, verbesserte auflage
by Lehnert, Martin
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1959. 4th edition; 16mo, pp. 178, [4], 3-24; original yellow printed wrappers (minor soiling); some shelf wear, corners and edges a bit bumped, pages uniformly toned; very good. At head of title: Sammlung Göschen Band 1125". A list of recent title from the same series in back.
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£23.27
Language change and typological variation: in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 83rd birthday
by Polomé, Edgar C., Carol F. Justus, [et al.]
Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 1999. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [6], 317; [6], [321]-641; fine in original printed yellow wrappers. Volume3 I: Language Change and Phonology; volume II: Grammatican Universals and Typology. Issued as monographs 30 and 31 in The Journal of Indo-European Studies.
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£116.37
A dictionary of the English language in which the words are deduced from their originals ... The sixth edition
by Johnson, Samuel
London: J.F. and C. Rivington [et al.], 1785. Second quarto edition (the first quarto was published in Dublin, 1775), 2 volumes, Vol. I: [a2]-b4 c-h2 i-k4 g-h4 B-4F4 4N-6X4 (with 5X2 missigned 5Z2), Vol. II: [A]1 B-3Y4 3Z2 A-3Y4 3Z2; engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson after Reynolds, text in triple column, without the half-title in volume I; contemporary full russia, gilt-ruled covers, smooth gilt-decorated spines laid out in 6 compartments, red and black morocco labels and onlays The complete...
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£1,861.85
Die Deutsche wortbildung oder die organische entwickelung der Deutsche sprache in der ableitung
by BECKER, KARL F
Frankfurt am Main: Hermannschen Buchhandlung, 1824. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 451-[452]; pages slightly browned; very good in modern quarter green morocco gilt over purple marbled boards, black label on spine. One of Becker's earliest and most important works on German word formation and the derivation of German speech.
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£256.00
Die deutsche sprache: Lehr- und ubungsbuch für fachschulen und erwachsenenbildung
by [Schilling, H.]
Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag, 1956. 8vo, pp. xv, 461, [3] (pub. ads); lightly toned, extremities a bit soiled with corners rubbed, else very good in original cloth-backed paper boards.
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£18.62
A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from the originals ... to which are prefixed a history of the language and an English grammar
by Johnson, Samuel
London: Harrison and Co, 1786. First one-volume folio ("Harrison's") edition, with a Preface by Harrison on the merits of his edition, and containing a reprinting of Johnson's Plan of a Dictionary, Harrison's Life of Johnson, and Johnson's original preface, history of the language and his English grammar; pp. [84] plus unpaginated lexicon in triple column followed by a sectional title and 3pp. of supplementary words; engraved frontispiece portrait, title page printed in red and black; complete and sound...
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£3,025.51
![新撰日本文法辞典(口語篇) / Shinsen Nihon bunpou jiden (kougohen) [= New Japanese grammar dictionary (colloquial volume)] (vol. 2)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/124/363/1544363124.0.b.jpg)
新撰日本文法辞典(口語篇) / Shinsen Nihon bunpou jiden (kougohen) [= New Japanese grammar dictionary (colloquial volume)] (vol. 2)
by Asano, Shin
Tokyo: Morikita Publishing Company, 1958. Eighth printing, 12mo, pp. 15, [1], 650, [1], 41, [4]; text in Japanese, limp navy cloth cover, light edge wear, text clean, very good.
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£32.58
English grammar in familiar lectures, accompanied by a compendium ... and a system of philosophical grammrar ... One hundred and fifth edition
by KIRKHAM, SAMUEL
Baltimore: Plaskitt & Cugle, 1839. 8vo, folding frontispiece (""a compendium of English grammar"" in 6 columns under a running head), pp.228; full contemporary sheep rubbed, but sound; red morocco label on spine; some foxing, especially to prelims and terminals. A formidable rival to Goold Brown's Institutes of English Grammar, popular at the elementary level from the time of its first printing in 1823 into the 1840's.
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£116.37
English grammars written in English and English grammars written in Latin by native speakers
by Alston, R. C
Leeds: for the author by E.J. Arnold & Son, 1965. First edition limited to 1000 copies, 4to, xxviii & 118-[120]pp., stain on endpaper; very good in orig. blue cloth. With annotations, collations and locations. Vol. I in the compiler's great Bibliography of the English language ... to the year 1800.
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£69.82
Studies of Chinese linguistics. Functional approaches
by Xing, Janet Zhiqun, ed
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. 8vo, pp. x, 235, [1]; full black cloth, gilt title on spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Nine essays, including material on Chinese typology, word order variation, word formation, semantic change, cognition, discourse analysis, interface among syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and grammaticalization.
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£27.93
