Language from Berthoff Books

University of Toronto Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 191 pages, with index. Published as one of the Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication. A study of the making of meaning, with central attention to "the triadic semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce [which] accounts for interpretation in logical terms: interpretation is a constituent of the sign".… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 388 pages, with glossary of common elements in English place-names, select bibliography; plus 33 pages of front matter including an introduction explaining the etymology of place-names, list of abbreviations, maps of the counties of England before and after 1974. From the DJ: "Each entry includes the modern county… Read more about this item

Allyn and Bacon, 1903. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN, designed for English-speaking students. 146 pages, with Notes explaining many words and phrases, note on Grimm's Law to draw out German's similarity with English, Exercises for Retranslation, abbreviations list, and nearly 50-page vocabulary list. The German of the Grimms' tales is printed in the Fraktur font… Read more about this item

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 142 pages. A Doubleday Anchor Original, translated from the Danish edition published 1962, being the first American edition. Includes Biographical Introduction. Mass-market paperback, spine sunned, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and… Read more about this item

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 175 pages, with index. Essays assembled as a posthumous collection, by Bernhard Blume and Roy Harvey Pearce. 8vo, black cloth with blind letter B on front board, silver gilt lettering on spine, no visible exterior wear save light dust soil to top edge, extremely faint… Read more about this item

W. W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 272 pages. Translated from Spanish. Reprint of 1963 Norton Paperback edition of book first published in English 1957. Includes short publisher's note and biographical blurb. Trade paperback, crease to front bottom corner, other light shelf wear, light foxing to edges extends to first and last pages of text block.… Read more about this item

University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 484 pages, with index, abbreviations list, notes. Foreword by Martin Schwab. Twenty-seven lectures, first published in German 1984, English published here as Theory and History of Literature series Vol. 45. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light foxing to top edge. From the library of Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1979. Soft cover. Good. 189 pages, with index, bibliography of Chomsky's works, two prefaces. Reprint of 1978 paperback edition of book first published 1975. Trade paperback, creases to wraps, light shelf wear, bookstore sticker on back cover. From the library of Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits), her underscoring… Read more about this item

Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 261 pages, with index, 78 photographs on b&w plates, 49 line drwings, 3 maps. Volume 25 in Ancient Peoples and Places series, general ed. Glyn Daniel. 8vo, brick-colored cloth with rubbed gilt lettering and decoration, worn especially at corners, both hinges cracked making the binding loose but all pages firmly attached,… Read more about this item