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Murray, Lindley . ENGLISH READER OR PIECES IN PROSE AND POETRY SELECTED FROM THE BEST WRITERS DESIGNED TO ASSIST YOUNG PERSONS TO READ WITH PROPRIETY AND EFFECT....WITH A FEW PREMLINARY OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD READING ...TO WHICH IS ADDED...PRONUNCIATION OF THE CLASSICAL PROPER NAMES AND OF NUMEROUS OTHER WORDS...(ETC) BY ISRAEL ALGER, JUN A.M.
Boston 1824 Lincoln and Edmonds. Signed by Josiah Ball, Princeton. Hardcover. Small octavo, 264pp., vignettes, original leather spine with paper-covered boards. Fairly Good, inner hinges cracked, covers worn, a few small holes in spine, some stains in text. (a12355)
$25.00 Arthus, Gothard . DIALOGUES IN ENGLISH AND MALAIANE LANGUAGES
NY 1974 Walter Johnson reprint of the London 1614 edition. The English Experience Number 640. "Dialogues in the English and Malaiane languages: or, certaine common formes of speech, first written in Latin, Malaian and Madagascar tongues by the diligence and painfull endeavour of Master Gotardus Arthusius, a Dantisker and now faithfully translated into the English tongue by Augustine Spalding, merchant for their sakes, who happily shall heareafter undertake a voyage to the East-Indies." Hardcover. Small octavo, 78pp., red cloth with blue label. Fine. (a26129)
$55.00 Bullokar, William . THE AMENDMENT OF ORTHOGRAPHIE FOR ENGLISH SPEECH
NY 1968. Da Capo reprint of London 1580 edition. The English Experience No. 24. Hardcover. Octavo, 54pp., red cloth with blue label on front board. Fine. (a28730)
$45.00 Jespersen, Otto . THE PHILOSOPHY OF GRAMMAR
London 1924 1st Allen & Unwin. 8vo., 859pp., index, hardcover. Near Good, inner hinges cracked, lower corners bumped, spine ends a bit frayed. (a43085)
$39.00 McCabe, Don . FIGHTING THE WERE GONNAS & THAIR SPOSTAS SPOKEN DIALECT TRANSLATION EXERCISES
1978 AVKO Educational Research Foundation. 4to., 121pp., plastic spiralbound wraps. Unusual and interesting! VG plus. Very Scarce. (a45270)
$125.00 Evans, Lynn and Angela M. Gould . AUTOMATIC AIDS TO PROFILE CONSTRUCTION: EXPANSION OF SEARCH TERMS BY THESAURUS
London 1976. The Institute of Electrical Engineers, Report No. R76/25. 4to., 105pp., wraps. Library stamps on fore-edges, on title page, inside rear wrap and on final page. Bookplate. Piece of label on front. Good, wraps a bit worn. (a45399)
$39.00 Huchon, Rene . HISTOIRE DE LA LANGUE ANGLAISE TOME II DE LA CONQUETE DE NORMANDE A L'INTRODUCTION DE L'IMPRIMERIE (1066-1475)
Paris 1930. In French. 8vo., 385pp., foldout table, wraps. Unopened. VG, a few light scuffs on front. Volume II only. (a46619)
$45.00 Meritt, Herbert dean . FACT AND LORE ABOUT OLD ENGLISH WORDS
1954 1st Stanford, California. 8vo., 226pp., wraps. VG. (a46866)
$65.00 Anderson Jessie MacMillan . A NEW STUDY OF ENGLISH WORDS
NY 1929 American Book Company. Hardcover. Small octavo,.116pp., index, printed cloth. near Fine, no DJ. (a48572)
$35.00 Laing, Alexander . WINE AND PHYSIC A POEM AND SIX ESSAYS ON THE FATE OF OUR LANGUAGE
NY 1934 1st Farrar & Rinehart. Interesting chapters on Language as a Social Art, Anatomy of Language, Economy of Language, etc. 8vo., 157pp., decorations by Isabel Lattimore, hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a54870)
$45.00 Goleman, Judith . WORKING THEORY, CRITICAL COMPOSTION STUDIES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. ISBN 0-89789-301-8.
CT 1995 1st Bergen & Garvey. ISBN 0-89789-301-8. Hardcover. Octavo, 143pp., hardcover. Fine. Brand New. (a70403)
$24.00 Downing, John A. . TOO BEE OR NOT TO BE THE NEW AUGMENTED ROMAN ALPHABET EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED
London 1962 1st Pitman. Hardcover. 12mo., 123pp., laminated boards. VG, light wear. (a79969)
$29.00 Osterberg, V. . PRINCE HAMLET'S AGE
Kobenhavn 1923 Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. VIII. Octavo. 66p., original printed wraps with later paper spine. Author's ideas on probable age of Shakespeare's character. VG plus. (a84518)
$49.00 McDavid, Raven I. Jr. and Audrey R. Duckert . LEXICOGRAPHY IN ENGLISH
1973 first edition. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume 211. Octavo, 342p., original wraps. VG. (a85172)
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