A Dictionary of Cliches: With an Introductory Essay
Routledge, January 1978. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Routledge, January 1978. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Brill, July 2012. Hardcover. Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines..... More
Perigee Trade, July 2008. Hardcover. An obsessive word loveras account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. aIam reading the OED so you donat have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on...a So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless..... More
Cooperstown, 1824. Leather. Solid binding in origianl boards; Boards show general wear from age w/ chipping and fraying present at edges; Previous owner name present at front and rear end-pages along with some other minor markings; Text free of markings; Pages moderately foxed w/ some damp-staining present; Over-all an extremely..... More
Other, December 1989. Hardcover. An entertaining collection of nearly 3,500 quotations - the essential companion to the world of the written word. Previous owner's name. More
Penguin Press, October 2005. Cloth. The only style manual to ever appear on a bestseller list now refreshed by one of our most beloved illustrators Every English writer knows Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. The book's mantra, make every word tell, is still on point. This much-loved classic..... More
Nabu Public Domain Reprints. Oversize Softcover. Facsimile of original text. Appears unread. Faint echo of cleaned off name on the spine. Appears unread. More