Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
April 1988. Hardcover. More
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The Devil's Dictionary (The 100 greatest masterpieces of American literature)
Franklin Library, January 1980. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page marker. More
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day - Colloquialisms, Catch-Phrases, Solecisms, Catachreses, Nicknames, Vulgarisms, Americanisms; New, Revised, and Enlarged Fifth Edition - Two Volumes in One -
MacMillan Company, 1961. Cloth. In dust jacket with considerable edgewear, tears, etc., but still decent and 98% intact (with darkening to margins). Sound binding. Clean text. Tanning/discoloration to textblock edges. 1362 pages. More
Dictionary of Americanisms
Crescent, February 1990. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. The edges of the print block are yellowed. More
Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang : A-G
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
Metaphors Be with You
Harper Paperbacks, December 2017. Paper Back. Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history's greatest metaphorical quotations, meticulously curated for writers, readers, and quotation lovers everywhere..... More
The Book of the Year 2019
Hutchinson, November 2019. Hardcover. The Book of the Year is back, with yet another pro-rogues gallery of the most amazing, audacious and absolutely absurd news of 2019. Once again the fact-finding foursome behind the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish have been newspaper-trawling and website-crawling to create your ultimate..... More
Superior Person's Complete Book of Words
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
Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture)
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
Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts and Strange Stories
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
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