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London / Devonport.: 'Printed for the Booksellers' / J Heydon., 1842. 'Price One Shilling' on title page.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Pencil marks, many light, some bold, clock face in child's hand; 'Emma Sherman 1883'. Missing front end paper. Surface wear. Spine, corners, edges significantly worn.. 1 Light brown leather over boards, stamped title front and back w/ shield: 'MURRAY'S GRAMMAR'; stamped borders. 126p. 3.5x5.75in. Font perhaps 7-8pt type. Introduction: Compiler notes that this Abridgment is presented after frequent requests, 'to preserve the larger work from being torn and defaced by the younger scholars...' and ended with, 'Holdgate, near York, 1797. ' p.2-7. As expected, there is some defacement herein. This is an original 19th century edition.
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Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar with an Appendix containing Exercises in Orthography, in Syntax, in Parsing, and in Punctuation designed for the Younger Classes of Learners. (A New Edition)
by Murray, Lindley
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Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
by Lederer, Richard, Ph.D.
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Charleston SC.: Wyrick & Company., 1987. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Inscribed by author: '9/5/90, To June & John. ' Light reading wear. Clean text pages and cover. No creasing.. Thompson, Bill (Illustrations by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 119 p. Audience: General/trade. Lederer is a linguistics specialist whose career has included teaching at St. Paul's School in Concord NH, commentary on NH pubic radio, newspaper columns, and public speaking (and they were). The pen & ink drawings are wonderful; picture this: 'Grandmother of eight makes hole in one. '
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Cassell Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations
by Andrews, Robert
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Cassell, 1998. 1st paperback edition. 1996 London HB.. Trade paperback. Very good. Nice edges. Back cover bend.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 622p. Audience: General/trade. International sources. Alphabetical contents by subject. Index of Authors. Index of Key Words.
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A Connotary; Definitions not found in dictionaries, collected from the sayings of the wise and otherwise.
by Pollard, Jno. Garland
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New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1935. 4th printing of revised & enlarged 3rd edition.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Pages pretty clean w/ occasional small stains. Cover, endpapers soiled, foxed; rear free end paper half missing. Had been owned by "Roxy Dunbar, Troy, Ala--" stylishly printed.. Seibel, Fred O. (Illustrated by).. 1 118 p. 20 cm. Cartoon style Black ink drawings. Red cloth covers, black titles. A humorous listing, alphabetically, of words defined by their connotations, inferences true or false, some people draw from words. Coining the word "connotary", Pollard began to collect phrases while a professor at the College of William and Mary. Later when Governor of Virginia, 1930-1934, he sent out a printing to friends and others, requesting they add others. Samples: "Compliments--Lies in full-dress"; "Debt--A thing we run into but can't get out of faster than a crawl. "
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Crabb's English Synonymes; Revised Edition
by Crabb, George, and Finley, John H (Introduction by)
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New York.: Grosset & Dunlap by arr. w/ Harper & Brothers., 1917. D-G on copyright page.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Dulled spine titles.. Azarian, Mary (Illustrated by).. 1 Textured cloth over boards; gold framed front title box, gold titles. 717 p. 21 cm. Dark red top page block. Subtitle: "Revised and Enlarged by the Addition of Modern Terms and Definitions arranged Alphabetically with Complete Cross References Throughout".
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Day's Practical and Comprehensive Shorthand Dictionary of the English Language, Revised Edition
by Day, Prof. Alfred
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Cleveland OH.: The Burrows Brothers Co., 1914. Copyrighted 1896 and 1905.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner name penciled: "C W Towle 2/1/16." Clean interior. Light cover soiling from handling; Minor spine end, corner rubs, with slight exposure to boards at corners.. 1 320 p. Light blue cloth over boards; darker blue border design and blue titles, front only. Tall and narrow: 3.5x7in. 2-column format: phonetic word & sentence part, left; shorthand symbols, right. Cover title: Day's Pocket Shorthand Dictionary. Subtitle on title page: "Containing 20, 000 common words with their correct spelling, syllabication, pronunciation, definition, and shorthand outline. With an appendix containing the Names of the States and Territories and their Capitals, with shorthand outlines; Rules for Spelling, Capitalization, and Punctuation; Common Abbreviations; Foreign Phrases and Commercial Terms."
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The Devil's Dictionary (Dover Thrift Edition)
by Bierce, Ambrose, and Smith, Philip (Edited by).
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New York.: Dover Publications., 1993. Trade paperback. New.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 144 p. 21 cm. Audience: Young adult. A Civil War veteran, Ambrose Bierce, b.1842-ca.1914, became an influential late 19th century American journalist and writer of comic verse and short stories. He had introduced satirical definitions into his columns in 1875, called "The Demon's Dictionary". Selections reprinted here saw ink 1881 until 1906.
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Dictation Studies (Benn Pitman Phonography)
by Tinus, W. L.
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New York / San Francisco / Chicago.: Powers & Lyons., 1903. Presumed 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light bumping. MInor cover blemishing. Tightly bound.. 1 Green cloth over boards. Black stamped titles w/ flourish. 240 p. Includes illustrations. Secretarial Training, subtitled, "A manual of business correspondence designed especially as a text-book for advanced work in shorthand departments of schools and colleges". Notes: 24 lines of business; phrase writing; names of cities, states; punctuation; 400 letters; 1400 difficult word, listed. Illustrated throughout with phonography symbols. Original 1903 edition. "An Entirely New Method of Presenting Vocabulary", on title page. Collectible and useful. The really good feel of an early 20th century reference book.
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Dictionary of Word Origins
by Shipley, Joseph T.
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New York.: Philosophical Library., 1945. Newer edition. Circa 1980s, no date other than 1945.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Top page block darkening.. 1 Red cloth and blue paper over boards. Blue jacket w/ white titles. 430 p. Professional and scholarly. Language Use Reference / Etymology: Includes Terms often Used; Grimm's Law; Theories of the Origin of Language; Abbreviations; Dictionary; Appendix I, Doublets; Appendix II, Words from Names; Appendix III, Given Names, Their Sources and Meanings.
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A Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms; An Indispensable Aid to Anyone who Writes or Speaks the English Language
by Devlin, Joseph
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Cleveland / New York.: The World Syndicate Publishing Company., 1938. Hard cover. Very good. Light spine end and corner rubs.. 1 Faux black leather cloth over boards. Rounded corners. Title boxes, gold w/ black titles. Red page blocks. 190 p. 21 cm. Reference volume published in 1938, prior to World War II.
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The Everyday Writer with 2009 MLA Update; Fourth Edition
by Lunsford, Andrea A
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Boston.: Bedford Books., 2009. Spiralbound. Good. Signed by previous owner. Lower plastic binding damage, single loop.. 1 Spiralbound Trade paperback. Lay-flat viewing. Orange stiff paper illustrated cover. 12 colorful reference tab sections. 592 p. Audience: General/trade. Reference / Writing Notebook w/ easily found themes including process, structure, grammar, M.L.A. Documentation. Index details on end papers.
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Get Thee to a Punnery
by Lederer, Richard, Ph.D.
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A Laurel Book / Dell Publishing., 1990. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Top spine has short tears. Prior bookstore ink stamp inside.. Thompson, Bill (Illustrations by). 1 Foldover front cover by 1/3rd 'cause one just can't say enough to promote this work, and the extra space allows a good start.. Subtitle: 'Whet your wit and ready your riposte with this outrageous punster's Bible'. The language arts master of St Paul's School in New Hampshire offers up 25 punster games that analyze, dissect, exercise, and encourage the use of puns, sharpening wits, and encouraging laughter in learning.
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Get Thee to a Punnery
by Lederer, Richard, Ph.D.
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Charleston SC.: Wyrick and Company., 1988. 2nd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor back cover soil spots.. Thompson, Bill (Illustrations by), and Savard, Timothy (Author B&W back cover portrait by).. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. 149 p. Pen&Ink Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. English language reference. Word Play, Homographs, Homophones, Knock-Knock Jokes, Punupmanship, Daffinitions Fictionary, Figuring Out Mathematical English, Silver Spoonerisms, and more. Lederer's career has included teaching at St. Paul's in Concord NH, public radio commentary (NH), print contributor, and public speaking (and they were).
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The Home Library of Law; Volume VI Domestic Relations and Wrongs
by Bolles, Albert Sidney
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- 1905 copyright. 2nd printing/edition.
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New York.: Doubleday, Page & Company., 1909. 1905 copyright. 2nd printing/edition.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Light age-toning.. 1 Brown leather over spine; lighter brown cloth over boards. Gold title box, spine. 6 v.; 19 cm. pp.867-1047. Contents: Marriage; The Parental Relation; Disabilities and Liabilities of Minors; Guardianship; Employer and Employees; Wrongs. Author Albert S Bowles was a Lecturer in Commercial Law and Banking in Haverford College.
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The Lincoln Reader
by Angle, Paul M. (Editor)
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New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1947. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Bookplate. Minor edgewear. Tight. Clean.. 0 xii, 564 p. 23 cm. Sections in B&W: Portraits, Plates, Facsimiles. References by chapter. Bibliography. Index. A biography written by sixty-five authors, Foreword. Light blue cloth-covered boards with 'A. Lincoln' facsimile cover signature and brown/maroon and gold title box.
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Managing Debt for Dummies: Proven tips to cut expenses and slash monthly payments
by Ventura, John, and Reed, Mary
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For Dummies / Wiley., 2007. 2nd printing.. Trade paperback. New. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Trade paperback (US), 6x9in. Glued binding. 292 p. Icon, cartoon illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Advice publisher series: 'A Reference for the Rest of Us! ' (subtitle). Bills itself as 'real world' advice.
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The Manual of Heraldry: A concise description of the several terms used, and containing a Dictionary of every designation in the science.
by Grant, Francis James, Sir (Editor)
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Edinburgh.: John Grant: Booksellers: Limited., 1948. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Clean covers and tight bound. Slightest of edge wear. Light random foxing to front end papers.. 1 Light blue cloth over boards. Dark blue spine titles.141p., 19 cm. 350 Pen&Ink illustrations. Coats of Arms, a history and reference. Contents: Origin of Coats of Arms; The Right to Arms; The Heraldic Executive; Arms of Dominion, etc. Tinctures, Furs; Lines used in Parting the Field, Differences, External Ornaments of the Shield; Marshalling Charges on Escutcheons by the Rules of Heraldry; Order of Precedency; Dictionary of Heraldic Terms; The Royal Arms, Union Jack, Heraldry in connection with History, Architecture, Interior Decoration, Costume, etc.
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The Merriam-Webster Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
by Merriam-Webster, Editors of
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Smithmark Publishers., 1995. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Age-toning. Slight jacket surface wear.. 1 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 743 p. Audience: General/trade. Reference for wordsmiths: Answers developed from crossword puzzle clues; plus more than 120 categorized word lists; solutions listed by number of letters and alphabetically; range of info like contemporary names, obscure words, literary characters, place names, mountains, rivers, seas, Triple Crown winners, more.
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A New Milestone in Encyclopedia Craftsmanship: World Book Encyclopedia (Sales Prospectus, 1958)
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Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, 1958. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor end paper foxing at back. A customer with small teeth has sampled 1-inch sections at top spine and top rear each, or some other purposeful light damage.. 1 518 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. Leather like maroon covers, 3-pin binding, showing a sample cover with 2 alternative cover materials. Sample volume selections as pages with promotional sections, front and back. This is a salesperson's sample book showing the World Book Encyclopedia at its best for families and schools; the importance of having educational resources that are attractive, with attention-getting and informative illustrations, as well as easy guides for locating the needed materials. As a 1958 edition, this is also a 'remember when' piece of nostaigia.
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New Practical Dictionary for Cross Word Puzzles: Revised, Enlarged Edition, More than 66, 000 Answers to Definitions
by Newman, Frank Eaton
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Garden City NY: Garden City Books, 1957. 4th since 1942.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Tight. Cover light irregular discoloration. Lower edge wear, inlcuding "thumbing" soiling, bottom and right edge. Interior pages clean.. 1 300 p.; 21 cm. A useful resource whether a puzzler or not, with definition and word association lists, including some terms no longer in use in this millennium due to changing technologies or language commonality.
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