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Lumiansky R. M.
Character and Performance of Chaucer's Franklin
Toronto: University of Toronto Quarterly 1951. 13 pages signed "Our Best Wishes to you and family R. M. L. Old fold in middle of brochure. By the Author. Reprint. Yellow paper Covers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. University of Toronto Quarterly Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009316
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Maintenance and Buying Guide And Other Sample books from the Company
Pittsburgh PA: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company 1959. 224 pages includes tool of the painting trade and paint samples. Also included is "Brighten Your Life With Colors You Like" 47 pages profusely illustrated interiors of the colors from the early 60's. Nice. Also a four page color sample brochure from Derusto. Also Pittsburgh Color Dynamics for Your Home 1947 23 pages great interior color and furniture shots. Great condition with one stain on cover. Paper. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Sample Book. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009336
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Sweet Henry
King Alfred's Orosius. Part I Old English Text and Latin Original
London: N. Trubner 1883. 288 pages paper boards are nearly detached backstrip missing. First Ed. Paper. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. N. Trubner Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009349
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Macris James Managing Editor
American Speech Volume XXXVII Number 2
New York: Columbia University Press 1962. Pages 82- 160 Dicken's Household Words on American English Anne Lohrli Noah Webster's Debt to Samuel Johnson More on Pseudo- subjunctive Were English Sports Terms in German Logging Railroad Language in the Redwood Country An Unrecorded Meaning of Joke or Joak in England. First Edition. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. Columbia University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009375
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Journal of English and Germanic Philology The
Urbana Illinois: University of Illinois 1940. Vol. XXXIX No. 1 Time and place in the Ingeld Episode of Beowulf subtle stain along backstrip of magazine. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Phillology. University of Illinois Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009385
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Malone Kemp
Ecgtheow
John Hopkins Press 1940. Excerpt from Modern Language Quarterly volume 1 No. 1 Pages 37 to 44. Reprint. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. John Hopkins Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009359
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Mcmullen Wallace E.
English Topographic Terms in Florida 1563- 1874
Gainesville Florida: University of Florida Press 1953. 227 pages top edge a little soiled. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. University of Florida Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009353
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Wilson Louis Round
Library Resources and the Philological Club 1901 - 1932
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library 1943. 19 pages a paper read before the philological club at a meeting held in chapel Hill on March 1 1943. Reprinted from Research in Progress 1941-42. The front top corner is dogeared. Reprint. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. University of North Carolina Library Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009374
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Howell A. C. Almonte Charles 1895 1986.
Christopher Harvey's the Synagogue 1640
University of North Carolina: University of North Carolina 1952. Pages 229 to 247 from an issue in the journal of Studies in Philology. Signed "To good old Eric from his well wisher and old companion Monte Howell. Signed and Inscribed By the Author. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Reprinted from Journal. University of North Carolina Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00009357
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Patterson Austin M.
A German-English Dictionary for Chemists
New York: John Wiley & Sons 1957. Previous owner's neat name inside front cover and in pencil original price. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards tiny nicks to upper edge of two pages and no bumping to corners. 541pp. Essential for the chemist searching German references or books. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 x 5.25 inches. John Wiley & Sons Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008897
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Yates May editor and Gibson Wilfrid intro
A Lancashire Anthology
The Universal Press of Liverpool Ltd 1923. Light foxing to page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with slight faded slightly rubbed boards dusty top of page edges and minor bumping to lower corners. Very scarce. 344pp. Lancashire dialect poems from thirty-four named and some anonymous writers some well-known some more scarce. Hard Cover. Good /No Jacket. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. The Universal Press of Liverpool Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 008606
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Constantine Muravnik Living Language
Complete Russian
Random House . softcover. New. pp. xlvi 432 Random House paperback
Bookseller reference : 61053317 ISBN : 1400024218 9781400024216
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Kurath Hans
Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New Englan
Providence: Brown University 1939. 240 pages with 2 fold-out maps. Boards a bit soiled solid book. First Ed. Green Cloth. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Linguistics. Brown University Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008693
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G. B. Manly
Aviation from the Ground Up
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co. 1929. 373 pages many illustrations mildly soiled. appears to be oil. Tight internally clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Aviation. Frederick J. Drake & Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008700
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Publication of the American Dialect Society Number 40 November 1963
University of Alabama Press: The Society 1963. 38 pages staining affects rear paper board and last page. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. Philology. The Society Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008688
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Cassidy Frederic G.
Place Names of Dane County Wisconsin
University of North Carolina: American Dialect Society 1947. 255 pages title printed in pen on backstrip minor staining. First Edition. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Placenames. American Dialect Society Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008690
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Colodny I.
Words Vol. 3 No. 4 Vol. 1 No. 3 Volume 3 No. 5
Los Angeles: I. Colodny 1937. A periodical devoted to the origin history and etymology of english words. 22 pages. Also issue Vol. 1 No. 3 which features H. L. Mecken Professor Everett l. Getchell and others. 32 pages. Also Volume 3 No. 5 The book has sample stamped on cover. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Philology. I. Colodny Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008786
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Wilson John Arthur
Viewing Leather Through the Eyes of Science
Boston Mass.: Shoe Trades Publishing Co. 1924. 64 pages a very scarce item of working leather. A few creases to pages cover. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Leatherwork. Shoe Trades Publishing Co. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008798
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Brander Matthews
La karaktero Usana
Stockholm: P. Ahlberg 1925. 14 pages Mondo Biblioteko III a few stains chipped to back board. Scarce. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Literary Criticism. P. Ahlberg Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008497
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Einenkel Eugen
Streifz�ge durch die mittelenglische Syntax unter besonderer ber�cksichtigung der Sprache Chaucer's
Munster: Verlag Von Heinrich Schoningh 1887. 296 pages disbound with a few loose pages which are present. Very scarce this edition. First Edition. Disbound. Poor. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. Verlag Von Heinrich Schoningh Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008518
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Publication of the American Dialect Society No. 38 November 1962
University of Alabama : University of Alabama Press 1962. 79 pages Northern Midland Dialect Boundary in Illinois. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Dialects. University of Alabama Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008661
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Merchant W. Moelwyn
Essays & Studies 1977
London: John Murray 1977. Neat school stamp to three pages and sign of label removal and book no to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with a little rubbing and with small nicks to top of spine and trace of label removal to spine. 109pp. Volume thirty of the new series of essays and studies collected for The English Association . . Hard Cover. Good /Good . 8.75 x 5.5 inches. John Murray Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007260 ISBN : 0719533708 9780719533709
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Robson W. W. Robson
Essays & Studies 1978
London: John Murray 1978. Neat school stamp to three pages and sign of label removal and book no to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with a little rubbing and with small nicks to upper edge and trace of label removal to spine. 130pp. Volume thirty-one of the new series of essays and studies collected for The English Association . . Hard Cover. Good /Good . 8.75 x 5.5 inches. John Murray Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 007261 ISBN : 0719535069 9780719535062
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Leach Henry Goddard
Angevin Britain and Scandinavia
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1921. 432 pages uncut. A bit wear to bottom of backstrip. This is volume VI of Harvard Studies in comparative literature founded by the general editor William Henry Schofield Professor of comparative literature in Harvard University. First Ed. Purple Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. British Folklore. Harvard University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008322
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Duvivier Girault
Grammaire des Grammaires ou Analyse Raisonnee des Meilleurs Traites sur la Langue Francoise Tome Second
Paris: Chez Janet et Cotelle 1822. Volume 2 only front hinge very tender with only one string holding onto the front board. An attractive book with these flaws. Cinquieme Edition. Vellum. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Grammar Book. Chez Janet et Cotelle Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008348
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Points of Etiquette
New York: William H. Sadlier 1881. Designed as a textbook for the young fragile and browning pages. 124 pages. Board. Good. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. Etiquette. William H. Sadlier Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008227
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Bayan Rick editor
The Cynic's Dictionary
London: Robert Hale 1995. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked torn or creased with signs of handling. 128pp. Amusing new definitions for a little over 900 well-known English words from a cynic's perspective. Examples include - Politician : a bundle of gaseous ambition cleverly packaged as a public servant or a corporate manager - Neurotic : sane but unhappy about it - Lottery : the equivalent of betting that the next pope will be from Dingwall - Cult Film - a movie seen about fifty times by about that many people. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good . 7.25 x 5.25 inches. Robert Hale Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 006277 ISBN : 0709056605 9780709056607
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South Helen Pennock
Proverbs of Alfred
New York: New York University Press 1931. 168 pages a small ding on the edge a small stain on the rear board. First Ed. Blue Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. New York University Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008167
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FD- 108 Integrated Flight System for B-727C-92C
Cedar Rapids Iowa: Collins Radio Company 1967. 33 pages small stain on cover. First Ed. Spiral Bound. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Pilot's Guide. Collins Radio Company Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008106
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Katan Norma Jean; Mintz Barbara
Hieroglyphs : The Writing of Ancient Egypt
London: British Museum 1992. No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower corner of front cover none to rear or to spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Discussion and detailed description of the meaning of each hieroglyph. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. British Museum Paperback
Bookseller reference : 005408 ISBN : 0714180602 9780714180601
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Tyrtikov A. P.
Effects of Vegetation on the Freezing and Thawing of Soils
Washington D. C.: United States Department of Agriculture 1976. 196 pages previous owner's stamp. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Agriculture. United States Department of Agriculture Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00008081
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Franklin Phyllis editor Modern Language Association of America
Profession 1999
The Modern Association of America 1999. Trade paperback 281 pages. Book is very good to near fine: light shelf wear text is clean and tight. The Modern Association of America paperback
Bookseller reference : 32290
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Soubiran Andre
Ce Bon Docteur Guillotin Et Sa Simple Mecanique
Libraire Academique Perrin. Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Clean text. Stamped on title page and back page some marks on the back endpapers. Text is in French. Illustrated with photos. Biography of Joseph-Ignance Guillotin; Presence De L'Histoire; Ex-Library . Libraire Academique Perrin hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15868
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Holmes Urban T. And Alexander H. Schutz
A History of the French Language
Columbus Ohio: H. L. Hedrick 1933. 190 pages signed on the title page by the author. Signed by Urban T. Holmes. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. H. L. Hedrick Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007996
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Kirkconnell Watson
Common English Loan Words in East European Languages
Winnipeg: Ukranian free Academy of Sciences 1952. 20 pages. . First Edition. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. Ukranian free Academy of Sciences Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007979
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Utley Francis Lee
Two Seventeenth Century Anglo Saxon Poems
Ohio State 1942. Reprinted from Modern Language Quarterly Vol. 3 No. 2 June 1942 signed on cover by the author. By the Author. Reprint. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Poetry. Ohio State Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007978
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Ward Vernon
Credo Politico
By the Author 1939. 11 pages small stain on cover. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Political. By the Author Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007981
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Leeds Studies in English and Kindred Languages Number One
University of Leeds: University of Leeds 1932. 54 pages top edge of untrimmed pages soiled mildly. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology Journal. University of Leeds Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007993
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American Speech Volume XV Number 3
New York: Columbia University Press 1940. light wear Early New England Words Vocabulary of 'Time' compounds in modern english and other articles and reviews. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. Columbia University Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00008010
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Heironimus John Paul Josiah Cox Russell
Two Types of Thirteeth Century Grammatical Poems
Colorado Springs: Colorado College Publication 1929. 27 pages. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. Colorado College Publication Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007982
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Langenhove George Ch. Van
On the Origin of the Gerund in English
Gand: University of Gand 1925. 132 pages signed with my compliments G. V. L. disbound. Signed By the Author. First Ed. Paper. Poor. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. University of Gand Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007997
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Wright Peter
Lanky Twang : How it is Spoke
Clapham North Yorkshire: Dalesman Books 1986. No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Lanky is a gradely tungue and its reyt jannock to speyk it. With this humorous book you can translate the last sentence and perhaps be understood in Burnley too. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 4.25 inches. Dalesman Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 004564 ISBN : 0852068735 9780852068731
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Johnson Gertrude E.
Dialects for Oral Interpretation
New York: Century Co. 1922. 308 pages light wear stains. Examination of dialects with examples. First Ed. Green Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Language Studies. Century Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00007939
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Bryk Felix
Dark Rapture The Sex Life of African Negro
New York: Walden Publication 1939. 65 pages a few small holes in the groove on the front and back pages browning mildly. First Edition. Black Cloth. Very Good-. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Sexuality. Walden Publication Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00007911
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Extraits De La Chanson de Roland
Paris: Librairie Hachette 1917. 160 pages the end page has a tipped in signature by David Blondheim. There are notes in pencil on the endpages and throughout the book. Book is worn but here is a bio of Blondheim found online:David Simon Blondheim was born in Baltimore MD August 25 1884. He received his education at The Johns Hopkins University where he received the AB degree in 1906 and the Ph.D. in 1910. Thereafter he left to study in France first at the Sorbonne and later the Coll�ge de France the �cole des Hautes-�tudes and the �cole des Chartres. In 1926 he was awarded the Volney prize from the Acad�mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres for his book Les Parlers Judeo- Romans et la Vetus latina 1925 the first American to receive the honor. He gained recognition as a French philologist and was regarded as the eminent specialist in his field in the United States. David Blondheim started his academic career at the University of Illinois as a language instructor. In 1917 he returned to Hopkins as an associate professor. In 1924 he was promoted to full professor in the French Department and a short time later he became a professor of Romance philology. David Blondheim specialized in medieval French and French linguistics and was particularly interested in the Jewish influences in Romance languages. David Blondheim died in Baltimore March 19 1934. . Reprint. Cloth Backstrip. Good. 16mo - over 5�" - 6�" tall. Philology. Librairie Hachette Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00007893
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Haar D. Ter
Elements of Hamiltonian Mechanics
Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company 1961. 191 pages stained on front board. . First Ed. Red Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Mathematics. North Holland Publishing Company
Bookseller reference : 00007776
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Schofield William Henry
Symbolism Allegory and Autobiography in the Pearl
Modern Language Association of America 1909. 91 pages "Reprinted from the Publications of the Modern language association of America XXIV 4." cover backstrip missing covers loose but could be mended. . Paper. Good. Comparative Literature. Modern Language Association of America Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007756
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Mason Lawrence
Genesis A: Translated From The Old English
New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1915. 61 pages with 4 pages of Yale Studies in English. This is the original copy not a reprint. The cover has been repaired. First Ed. Paper. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Old English Studies. Henry Holt & Co. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007766
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Stetson R. H.
Bases of Phonology
Oberlin Ohio: Oberlin College 1945. 112 pages. First Ed. Paper. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Phonology. Oberlin College Paperback
Bookseller reference : 00007755
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Meiklejohn J. M. D.
A Brief History of the English Language and Literature
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. 1892. Volume 2 pages 271- 461 a few jotted notes boards rubbed previous owner's signature on front end page. Also included with this book is Meiklejohn's History of the English Language by the same publisher American Edition revised limp green boards which are quite stained no date. Later Printing. Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Philology. D. C. Heath & Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 00007732
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