Swan Sonnenschein & Co. / Gale Research Company, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Dust stained chartreuse cloth covered boards with gold lettering in olive green rectangular title plate on spine. Dustjacket is missing. Bright, clean, olive green end pages. Mildly darkened top textblock edge. Small fingernail shaped dust stain textblock bottom edge..... More
Garland Publishing, March 1990. Hardcover. First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (7 & 1/4 inches x 10 & 1/4 inches) Quarto without dustjacket in pictorial boards. Black end pages. Clean, sound, tight binding. Without markings. (928 pages). More
The Folio Society, 2006. Hardcover. In dark red slipcase. More
NYRB Classics, September 2020. Paper Back. A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. Juan Eduardo Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation..... More
Houghton Mifflin, June 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, January 2007. Trade Paperback. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Much has changed since the first edition of Lisa Ede's "Work in Progress"; students need more rigorous help working with sources, creating effective arguments, and addressing the greater demands of academic writing in a digital age. Refocused on the kinds of academic writing students..... More
Vintage Books USA, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Have you ever wondered about the difference between Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism and which influenced the other? Do you know where Post-modernism stops and Post-structuralism begins? Would you like to? From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools of..... More
Shorebird Press, June 1997. First Edition. Paper Back. Octavo; {6' x 9'}; shelf worn, curled textblock, dog-eared pages. Much of the wear appears to be the result of improper storage and handling. Uncommon title and excellent source for the jargon of the news business of 'old', assuming 24 years ago..... More
Crescent, February 1990. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. The edges of the print block are yellowed. More
Random House Inc, May 1994. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. The "only" historical dictionary of slang -- spanning three hundred years of slang use in America. Light shelf wear and a one inch closed tear on the jacket. Very lightly bumped corners on the boards. Edges of the print block lightly..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 2007. Trade Paperback. So friendly, so classic, so delightful . . . Kalman has taken 'the little book' and made it even more elegant and uplifting. --Los Angeles Times The only style manual to ever appear on a bestseller list now refreshed by one of our most..... More
Penguin Books, October 1977. Trade Paperback. Lightly toned with minor shelf wear. More
Contemporary Books, January 1983. Trade Paperback. As is. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. Shelf wear. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Higher education has its own rules -- rules about who is heard, what counts as knowledge, what works as persuasion. They are conventions that must be learned -- and taught. So it is no wonder that for new students, college can be a confusing..... More
The Macmillan Compnay, 1959. Cloth. Quarto (7 & 1/2 inch x 10 & 1/4 inch); 'Second edition (with some corrections and additions),' in price-clipped, mildly edgeworn, dustjacket. Heavy darkening at margins, spine & verso of jacket. Purple topstain. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine edge. Some fade & discoloration..... More
David R. Godine, Publisher, October 2016. Paper Back. What Bowler manages to do in this omnium gatherum of over 1,000 words that all of us have (very) occasionally heard but have no idea how to use, compiled from the three separate editions previously published by Godine, is not only to..... 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
Random House Reference Publishing, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. A fun, new approach to examining etymology Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 B.C. as a synonym for 'diamond, '..... More
Weiser Books, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Did you know duck dander is hallucinogenic? Or that Katherine Hepburn had a phobia of dirty hair? Have you ever wondered about the Magickal Skull of Doom or contemplated the mysterious Transylvanian Tablets? The Book of the Bizarre is a veritable treasure trove of..... More
