1st/1st. Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated ‘To Janice happy reading!’ by author on title page. 1st edition 1st printing complete number line. Dust jacket has slight edgewear. Book has mildly bumped corners and minor softening to base of book spine. By the author of 'Grange House'. unknown
Bookseller reference : 4296-15 ISBN : 0399156194 9780399156199
Tor 2012. Later Edition. Mass Market i.e. 4 by 7 inch softcover. New Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition/N/A volume is softcover. Signed by Blake Charlton Novel Tor paperback
Dover Publications. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Dover Publications unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP64422921 ISBN : 0486246361 9780486246369
Harper 1964. Paperback. Good. Harper 1964. Good. Paperback Text clean. First Colophon paperback. 308 pages. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Harper paperback
New York: Viking Press 1968. Paperback. Good. Viking Press New York 1968. Good. Paperback Text clean. 713 pages. Light wear. 17th paperback printing 1969. Selected and arranged by Alfred Kazin. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Viking Press paperback
First edition. DW. xiii 278pp. Illustrated. Tail of spine slightly sunned fore-edges foxed. Contents very clean. Wrapper browned slightly grubby lacking portions from head and tail of spine affecting text extremities slightly chipped o/w VG/VG. Scarce in dustwrapper. William Hodge & Company, Limited, London. 1951 unknown
Oxford University Press New York/Oxford/London: 2011. Softcover. Brand new book. With revelations on every page and sample codes and puzzles for the reader to crack Secret Language will entertain everyone with an urge to know more about the most arcane and curious uses of language. From backmasking to the Enigma Machine from magic words to literary symbols here is a lively engaging tour of languages that hide their meanings from all but a chosen few. Blake explains the difference between ciphers and codes and shows how secret messages have been written--and broken--for almost two thousand years. He explores the history and uses of the slang and argot of schools and trades tracing the stories of centuries-old cants such as those used by sailors and criminals--among them polari the mix of Italian Yiddish and slang once spoken among strolling players and circus folk and most recently adopted by the gay community. He examines the sacred languages of ancient cults and religions uncovers the workings of onomancy spells and gematria considers the obliqueness of allusion and parody and celebrates the absurdities of euphemism and jargon. Features Explores the reasons for obscurity and secrecy in language Fascinating entertaining instructive Includes puzzles ciphers and codes for the reader to solve "Intriguing. It is good to have a book that gives you something to ponder without being ponderous itself. And it can be recommended in particular to anyone disposed to find language itself as such a source of pleasure." - InsideHigherEd.com "Covers a lot of ground. Reminds us that the rehearsal of that moment when concealing becomes revealing is a powerful resource-one might even reserve the word divine for it." - TheNation.com Barry J. Blake is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University. His books include Playing with Words and All About Language. ISBN: 0199691622. Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford/London: 2011 paperback
Bookseller reference : 73833X1 ISBN : 0199691622 9780199691623
-Christie's 1993-. Auction / collection catalogue. 265x210 37 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Very good indeed. With prices realised loosely inserted. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions Auctions Collections etc. with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence. -Christie's (1993)- paperback
London: Studio Vista/ Christie's 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London Studio Vista/ Christie's 1979. Quarto; cloth; extremities slightly bumped and flecked; an excellent copy with the lightly tanned dustwrapper. Flaxman one of William Blake's circle of friends also produced designs for Josiah Wedgewood. Studio Vista/ Christie's hardcover
St. Martin's New York: 1967. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. An attempt at a fresh appraisal of Disraeli's life particularly its political side. Includes an Index. St. Martin's, New York: 1967 hardcover
Berkeley: University of California Press 1994. First edition. tan linen lettered in red pictorial endpapers. As new/pictorial dust jacket as new. Oblong quarto. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white with full page plates “Long dismissed as a wasteland the borderlands reveals much to the contrary startling beauty variety and bilogical richness .†- dust jacket. University of California Press unknown
Berkeley: University of California Press 1990. First edition. blue gray cloth lettered in silver. As new. Quarto. This bibliography began very casually early 1976 . The use of Blake's poetry by composers is almost entirely a twentieth-century phenomenon but not quite. .reported that Blake was in the havit of singing his poems to melodies of his own making ." -from the foreword. University of California Press hardcover
Ca 1850. . Miniatur-Porträt. - Admiral Blake war Mitbegründer der Seeherrschaft des britischen Commonwealth. Er zeichnete sich während des englischen Bürgerkriegs als Befehlshaber eines von ihm selbst geworbenen Regiments aus u. wurde 1649 von Oliver Cromwell zum Flottenkommandanten ernannt. Obwohl Blake bisher keine Erfahrung in der Seefahrt hatte konnte er große Erfolge in verschiedenen Schlachten verzeichnen. - Etwas stockfleckig [Ca 1850]. unknown
New York 1890. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper has title printed in blue with vignette of a steam engine in background and the words "For Sale By Miller Chapman & Castle Butte Montana." Rear wrapper with an engraving of Blake's Vertical Marine Duplex Pump. 2 78pp with numerous additional pages i.e. 15A-15D 73A-73B etc. Profusely illustrated with the Company's products. Some wrapper spotting and text margin spotting else Very Good. A classy showcasing of this Company's steam machinery with dozens of engravings. It is dated 'January 1 1890' on page 1. OCLC records several versions of this Catalogue all of them scarce one with a San Francisco merchant's name on the front wrapper. Romaine 193 reference. unknown
Rutgers University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1963. Second Printing. Hardcover. Name on endpaper- DJ worn and chipped. ; 1.8 x 9.5 x 6.4 Inches; 370 pages . Rutgers University Press hardcover
Doubleday & Company Garden City: 1970. Softcover. Reading copy. Since it was first published in 1965 David V. Erdman's edition has been widely hailed as easily the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. A unique feature of the volume is the 82 pages of critical commentary by Harold Bloom. Doubleday & Company, Garden City: 1970 paperback
Watson-Guptill Pubns 1978-09. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/light shelfwear to dj. name written on first page excellent condition Watson-Guptill Pubns hardcover
Bookseller reference : 100225017 ISBN : 0823056724 9780823056729
New York: The Free Press of Glencoe 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York The Free Press of Glencoe 1961. Octavo; quarter contrasting cloth slightly bumped at the head and foot of the spine; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly sunned marked bumped and rubbed. With the ownership signature of T.G.H. Strehlow and inscribed 'University of Adelaide 23 February 1962'. The Free Press of Glencoe hardcover
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