197187 pages. Features: Historic houses; The Dialect called Bungi; Early Manitoba Furniture; Seven Oaks House; Legislative Buildings; The Magnificent Adventure - The first printing press and publications west of Toronto in 1940 - James Evans; Log Construction at Red River; The Crockery Trade; Lower Fort Garry; St. Andrews on the Red; Story of Transportation; Ukrainians in the Manitoba Mosaic; Upper Fort Garry; Sir Thomas Button; St. Boniface Museum; Manitoba Glass Works; Local Museums preserve history; Manitoba Art; Portageto Winnipeg; Indian Trade Silver; Museum of Man and Nature; The Metis and the Buffalo. Average wear. Sound copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada99,95 €

Swanton, John R. - Recorded ByMareMagnum

Haida Texts and Myths - Skidegate Dialect: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin 29

1905448 pages. "Contains texts and myths obtained on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, during the winter of 1900-01." - Introduction. Front free endpaper almost loose. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Canada495,00 €

Dobson, BobMareMagnum

In Lancashire Language : Lancashire Poems

1991No marks or inscriptions. Very faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64pp. A 'gradely' collection of Lancashire poems collated by local history writer and publisher Bob Dobson.

Godley Books · Regno Unito6,54 €

Yates, May (editor) and Gibson, Wilfrid (intro)MareMagnum

A Lancashire Anthology

1923Light 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.

Godley Books · Regno Unito14,50 €

Baron, John T (Jack o' Ann's)MareMagnum

A Cotton Town Chronicle - Blackburn

1978No marks or inscriptions. Crease to front cover. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked, very slightly dusty covers and no bumping to corners. 88pp. Introduction by journalist and local historian Chris Aspin. These stories in Blackburn dialect verse written under the non-de-plume Jack o' Ann's were taken from the Blackburn Times over a period of 33 years from around 1880 onwards. They were written by the publisher's great grandfather. With four black & white photos of the author and the area from the 1890s plus some of his hand-written correspondence. Scarce.

Godley Books · Regno Unito28,43 €

Beer, DorisMareMagnum

T'Weaver's Web (Signed By Author)

1979Author signature on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp.

Godley Books · Regno Unito5,63 €

Yates, W.MareMagnum

Owd Peter : A Sketch of Early Village Methodism

1900Fingermarks to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Dusty pages in a very tight binding with unmarked maroon boards and minor bumping to corners. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photograph of (presumably) Peter and Ann foxed around edges. 95pp. The story of Peter and Ann from a midlands mining community. Very scarce.

Godley Books · Regno Unito19,90 €

Dobbs, LowellMareMagnum

Songs of a Lancashire Warbler

1992No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 90pp. Poetry and verse from a well-known writer and orator of Lancashire dialect, whose real name was Malcolm Campbell (Mal-o-Bill's). Also a Glossary of Lancashire words and some old Lancashire sayings.

Godley Books · Regno Unito6,26 €

Moorman, F. W.MareMagnum

Tales of the Ridings

1920Name on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark green boards, some foxing and very minor rubbing to corners. 83pp. Dialect stories from the FW Moorman, Professor of English Language at Leeds University. Before the stories is a twenty page memoir of the author from Professor C Vaughan.

Godley Books · Regno Unito5,63 €

Pepper, JohnMareMagnum

What a Thing to Say

1977Neat inscription to title page. No other marks and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with faint cup rings to front and no bumping to corners. 62pp. A collection of Ulster dialect gems from the Belfast Telegraph writer.

Godley Books · Regno Unito5,63 €

Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)MareMagnum

Tufts of Heather : Second Series

1890No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright navy cloth boards, very small mark to front, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Spine not faded or sunned 296pp. With two long and sixteen short stories of Edwin Waugh's Lancashire dialect sketches in this Second Series plus two drawings. Undated, ca 1890.

Godley Books · Regno Unito10,80 €

Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)MareMagnum

Tufts of Heather : First Series

1890Signed by George B Horridge, ex-soldier and Lancashire cricketer to front end paper, tucked in are brief synopses and a calling card from Mrs Horridge of Elton Lodge, Bury. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright navy cloth boards, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges and bumping to corners and to rear edges. Spine not faded or sunned 296pp. With six of Edwin Waugh's Lancashire dialect sketches in this First Series plus four drawings and engravings. Undated, ca 1890.

Godley Books · Regno Unito10,80 €

Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)MareMagnum

Rambles in the Lake Country and other Travel Sketches

1890No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright very faintly spotted front navy cloth board, unmarked rear, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges and minor bumping to spine ends. Large fold-out map at rear slightly torn and creased at extremeties. Spine not faded or sunned 290pp. With ten chapters on the author's travels in parts of the Lake District and other areas of Europe. Includes some Lancashire dialect talks with the locals plus twenty-seven drawings and a map of the Lake District. Undated, ca 1890.

Godley Books · Regno Unito14,22 €

Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)MareMagnum

Lancashire Sketches : First Series

1890No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked navy cloth boards, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges, minor bump to top of spine, decorated end papers and no bumping to corners. Spine not faded or sunned A 44 page introduction plus 274pp. With five tales from the author's travels around Lancashire plus a Christmas story, including much Lancashire dialect plus frontispiece photograph of Edwin Waugh. Undated, ca 1890.

Godley Books · Regno Unito45,49 €

Waugh, Edwin & Milner, George (editor)MareMagnum

Chimney Corner

1890No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges, rubbing to top of spine and minor bumping to corners. Clear gilt lettering to spine and front board. Spine not faded or sunned. 292pp. Dialect tales of old Lancashire, many autobiographical. Undated ca 1890.

Godley Books · Regno Unito7,39 €

Bloomfield, LeonardMareMagnum

Language (Unwin University Books)

1969Signed J C Dumbreck 1972 to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 566pp. A classic work on Language, across an international field and an invaluable aid to all students of or those with an interest in comparative philology. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.

Godley Books · Regno Unito13,08 €

PorcelliMareMagnum

Collezione di tutti i Poemi in Lingua Napo le ta na

1783In-8°, 28 tomi, legatura uniforme in piena pergamena con tassello al dorso. Due volumi con spellature, un volume con tassello differente, ma in generale ottimo esemplare. I tomi 26 e 27 contengono il Vocabolario. Il tomo 28 Del Dialetto Napoletano di Ferdinando Galiani. In-8 °, 28 volumes, binding in full parchment with label on the back. Two volumes with peeling, one volume with different label, but in general excellent example. Tomes 26 and 27 contain the vocabulary. Volume 28 is Del Dialetto Napoletano of Ferdinando Galiani.

Libreria Antonio Pettini · Italia1800,00 €

Bartolomeo GambaMareMagnum

Serie degli scritti impressi in dialetto veneziano compilata ed illustratada Bartolomeo Gamba giuntevi alcune odi di Orazio tradotti da Pietro Bussolin.

1832In-8°; pp. 176. Legatura in mezza pelle con tassello in rosso del titolo con incision in oro al dorso.

Libreria Antonio Pettini · Italia150,00 €

FRANCESCATO GIUSEPPEMareMagnum

Consonanti prepalatali e palatali in friulano.

Cm. 24; da p. 235 a p. 267. Brossura editoriale a stampa. Estratto originale "Atti Istituto Veneto. 1959". Ottimo esemplare. (I. V. 374) (+C) 709

La Stampa Antica · Italia10,00 €

TAELDEMAN, J.Livre Rare Book

De klankstruktuur van het gentse dialekt. Een synchrone beschrijving en een historische en geografische situering. Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, werken Uitgegeven door de Faculteit van de Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, 172e Aflevering.

rif. 107494Gent, Akademie-Verlag 1985, 245x160mm, 261 blz., percaline binding. Eerbetoon van de auteur onderaan de titelpagina. Nr. 39 / 600 Exemplaren. Mooi exemplaar.