English Language from Twin City Antiquarian Books
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Writing with Precision: How to Write So That You Cannot Possibly Be Misunderstood
by Bates, Jefferson D.
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- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 2nd ed, 4th ptg
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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Washington, D. C: Acropolis Books, Ltd., 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards, black titles on spine, black endpapers, xv, 213 pp, index. Top edge & one corner bumped. DJ has 3 small (under 1 cm) tears; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ed, 4th ptg. … Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program
by Frank, Stanley D.
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 7th ptg
- Published
- 1990
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780812917734
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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New York: Times Books (Random House), 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter natural linen with blue boards, blue titles on spine & maroon titles on front board, x, 212 pp, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 7th ptg. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm. Item Price
$25.99
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
by Cook, Claire Kehrwald
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780395389447
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey boards, blue titles on front board & spine, xx, 219 pp, glossary, bibliography, index. DJ has a few small nicks to edges; in Brodart archival cover. Guide to copy-editing to improve clarity and style by an editor for the Modern… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
Write to the Point! Letters, Memos, and Reports That Get Results
by Fruehling, Rosemary T. & N. B. Oldham
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 3rd ptg
- Published
- 1989
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780070225497
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Orange-yellow boards, red foil titles on spine, ix, 261 pp, bibliography, index. DJ spine slightly sunned; in Brodart archival cover. Guide to writing for business & personal correspondence. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Fine/Near Fine.… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
Small-Town Values and Big-City Vowels: A Study of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan
by Gordon, Matthew J.
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2001
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780822364788
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, 2001 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. American Dialect Society Publication Number 84. Full blue cloth, blue foil titles on front board & spine, xi, 229, [1] pp, tables, scatterplots bibliography, index. Study of linguistic change in Paw Paw & Chelsea, Michigan. Shipping weight… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
The Perrin-Smith Handbook of Current English
by Perrin, Porter G. & George H. Smith
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- Used - VG+
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- No dj
- Edition
- 2nd ed, 4th ptg
- Published
- 1964
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Palo Alto & Fair Lawn: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, white & pale green titles on front board & spine, xxv, 542 pp, index. Slight shelf wear. This guide to English grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling, style & composition of paper and… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
Reader's Digest Use the Right Word Modern Guide to Synonyms and Related Words
by Hayakawa, S. I. and the Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary Staff
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- Used - Fine
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- No dj
- Edition
- 6th ptg
- Published
- 1979
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780895770257
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$27.99
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Pleasantville, NY & Montreal: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue fake leather, gold on maroon titles on spine, x, 726 pp, index. Not just a list of synonyms--each entry discusses at some length the base word and its synonyms, elucidating subtle distinctions in meaning and usage. … Read more about this item Item Price
$27.99
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Johnson's Dictionary: A Modern Selection
by Johnson, Samuel (Ed. By E. L. McAdam, Jr. & George Milne)
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- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- G+
- Edition
- 3rd ptg
- Published
- 1963
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$21.99
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown leather-textured boards, gilt titles & decorations, xiv, 465 pp. Edge wear. DJ has small chips & tears; in Brodart archival cover. Samuel Johnson's plan in compiling his dictionary was to define words by quoting examples from English literature, and thereby… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.99
Bernstein's Reverse Dictionary
by Bernstein, Theodore M. & Jane Wagner
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- BCE
- Published
- 1975
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780812905663
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., Inc., 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine & dec. on front board, x, 276 pp. Spine ends slightly rubbed. DJ has 1 cm tear to top of rear panel, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Alphabetical… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
Storycrafting
by Boles, Paul Darcy
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- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1984
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780898791471
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$25.99
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Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, burgundy titles on spine, [vii], 243, [1] pp, index. Pencil underlining in first two chapters, else fine. DJ has a tear near base of front joint; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG.… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.99
Composition and Rhetoric
by Tanner, William M.
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- Used
- Published
- 1922
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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Boston, New York, Chicago, London et al.: Ginn & Company, 1922 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, black titles on front board & gilt titles on spine, xiii, 500, xxxix pp, 21 illustrations, index. Light shelf wear. Apparently a 2nd printing, code 629.2 on copyright page. High-school level text… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
Reference Manual for Stenographers and Typists (Third Edition)
by Gavin, Ruth E. & E. Lillian Hutchinson
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- Used - VG-
- Jacket Condition
- G
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- 3rd Ed, 4th ptg
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York et al.: Gregg Publishing Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Teal boards, purple titles on spine, [iv], 188 pp, index. Spine ends beginning to fray, otherwise very good. DJ chipped, torn & wrinkled but substantially complete; in Brodart archival cover. In addition to style… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
Webster's Encyclopedia of Dictionaries (Large Print)
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- Used - G+
- Published
- 1978
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$29.39
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n. p.: Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Bound in white fake leather with blue spine, gilt titles & decoration, pict. endpapers, [xiv], 1246, [17] pp. Small tear at top of spine, else VG, owner's address label on recto of ffep. Non-paginated color section at beginning and atlas at… Read more about this item Item Price
$29.39
An Old English Grammar
by Quirk, Randolph & C. L. Wrenn
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- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Published
- 1957
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$19.99
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. This is a volume in the series "Methuen's Old English Library," and except for the imprint appears to be printed from the same type as the Methuen edition. Putty cloth with purple & gold titles, x, 166 pp, footnotes, index.… Read more about this item Item Price
$19.99
Dictionary of Pronunciation
by Lass, Abraham & Betty
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1976
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., Inc., 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, gilt titles on spine, [vii], 314 pp. Slight edge wear. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Collects acceptable pronunciations for 8000 words from four standard US desk dictionaries, uses a single phonetic alphabet for display,… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
The Little, Brown Handbook
by Fowler, H. Ramsay & Jane E. Aaron
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- 4th ed, 1st ptg
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780673398598
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$21.99
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Glenview, IL, Boston & London: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Laminated brown & white boards, xx, 778 pp, index. Bookseller's promotional sticker on fpd, a couple of stray marks in ink on rpd. This book is both a textbook and a reference book on English language composition,… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.99
Dictionary of Problem Words & Expressions
by Shaw, Harry
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- 4th ptg
- Published
- 1976
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Beige leather-textured boards, green foil titles on spine, beige endpapers, xxxv, 262 pp. DJ has a couple of very small chips & spine is sunned; in Brodart archival cover. An introduction with general usage advice is followed by 1500… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
The Many Hues of English
by Pei, Mario
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- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1967
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$20.99
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Full pale grey cloth with blue & gold foil titles, top edge dyed blue, viii, 214, [2] pp. Remainder mark is stamped in red on recto of ffep, sticker marks on ffep & title page. DJ torn at spine… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.99
Origins of the English Language
by Williams, Joseph M.
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- Used - G+
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1975
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780029352809
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$21.99
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New York: The Free Press, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, black titles on spine, ix, 422 pp, bibliography, index of modern English words, subject index. Corners bumped, small spots on edges, some underlining in chapter 2 only. Introductory college-level textbook on the development of the English language. Contents:… Read more about this item Item Price
$21.99
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged)
by Stein, Jess (Ed.)
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- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Published
- 1966
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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$64.49
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New York: Random House, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full beige buckram with gilt and brown titles & device, xxxii, 2059 pp, including 64 pp atlas and gazeteer. Light soil. DJ edges rubbed with short tears and some soil; in Brodart archival cover. Does not fit in a flat-rate box.… Read more about this item Item Price
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