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There are 98 books in this catalogue.
Complete Crossword Companion
No Author
Book Number: 67365
ISBN: 1851520848
Publisher: Chancellor 1988
8vo hardcover, laminated boards. 640pp. very good.
Price: $10.00


Say It My Way : How to Avoid Certain Pitfalls of Spoken English, Together with a Decidedly Informal History of How Language Rose (or Fell)
Espy, Willard R.
Book Number: 67050
ISBN: 0385131011
Publisher: Doubleday and Company, New York 1980.
8vo. hardcover. 219pp. Very good. /Good d/w chipped on top edge.
Price: $12.00


Hidden Codes & Grand Designs: Secret Languages From Ancient Times To Modern Day
Berloquin, Pierre
Book Number: 67010
ISBN: 1402728336
Publisher: Sterling, New York 2010.
8vo. hardcover. 375pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00


The Field of Nonsense.
Sewell, Elisabeth
Book Number: 66934
ISBN: 
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London 1952.
8vo. hardcover. 198pp. Very good, foxing to endpapers & outer edge of text-block. / Very good d/w foxed on back panel and flaps.
Price: $75.00


Fraffly Well Spoken - How to speak the language of London''s West End
Lauder, Afferbeck - Alistair Morrison
Book Number: 66689
ISBN: 
Publisher: Ure Smith Sydney 1968
8vo. Softcover. Illustrated by Al Terego. 63pp. Good, spine repaired, tape marks inside covers & on endpapers.
Price: $45.00


Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
Shaw, Harry
Book Number: 37394
ISBN: 0070565171
Publisher: New York Mcgraw-Hill 1987
8vo hardcover 368pp. Good, highlighting on 2 pages. owner's name on fep. / good d/w. Defines, explains, and illustrates more than 1500 of the most common mistakes in word use made in English. Includes a brief guide to more effective writing and speaking.
Price: $8.00


Essentials of English Grammar
Jespersen, Otto
Book Number: 66262
ISBN: 
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London, 1950
8vo. hardcover. 387pp. index. Very good, small tape marks on endpapers. / Good+, foxed d/w.
Price: $35.00


The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Fowler, H. W. ; Revised by Sir Ernest Gowers
Book Number: 66264
ISBN: 0198691157
Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1982. 2nd edition.
8vo. hardcover. 725pp. Very good. / Very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $150.00


Dictionary of English Grammar (Brockhampton Reference)
no author
Book Number: 66221
ISBN: 1860190138
Publisher: Brockhampton Press, London 1995
12mo. hardcover. 251pp. Very good, page edges lightly toned.
Price: $10.00


The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Volumes I and II, A to M and M to Z
Little, William (prepared by)
Book Number: 65899
ISBN: 
Publisher: Guild / BCA, 1983.
4tos. blue cloth hardcovers. 2672pp. Very good, prelims creased, a little specking to cover. / no d/ws.
Price: $55.00


The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
Book Number: 65849
ISBN: 0198607024
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003.
8vo. hardcover. 260pp. b/w illus. Very good+. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $12.00


Grammar for Grown-Ups
Shrives, Craig
Book Number: 65814
ISBN: 9780857830807
Publisher: Kyle Books, London 2011
8vo. illustrated boards, hardcover. 243pp. Very good+.
Price: $12.00


Oxford German Dictionary. German-English; English-German
Scholze-Stubenrecht, W & Sykes, J. B. (editors)
Book Number: 65749
ISBN: 9780199545681
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Small 4to. hardcover 1752pp very good, wrinkled rear endpaper. / no d/w.
Price: $45.00


Nihongo Notes 1 & 2: Speaking and Living in Japan; Expressing oneself in Japanese
Mizutani, Osamu & Nobuko
Book Number: 65684
ISBN: 4789000680
Publisher: Japan Times.1979
2 volumes. 8vo. softcovers. pp.160,160. Very good+.
Price: $25.00


Key To The Exercises Adapted To Murray's English Grammar circulated To Enable Private Learners To Become Their Own Instructers In Grammar And Composition
Murray, Lindley
Book Number: 64627
ISBN: 
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London 1845.
12mo. stiff leather covered boards, 228pp. Fair, pieces missing from ends of spine, endpapers foxed, stain on bottom edge of last few pages.
Price: $25.00


The Cat's Pyjamas
Brasch, R
Book Number: 63794
ISBN: 0207189706
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1997.
8vo. softcover. 290pp. index. Very good.
Price: $8.00


The Everyman Dictionary Of Abbreviations.
Paxton, John
Book Number: 63760
ISBN: 0460871285
Publisher: Second Edition with revisions and supplement.
8vo. hardcover. 195pp. Near Fine. / Near Fine d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Essential Crossword Dictionary
Rafferty, Kathleen
Book Number: 63642
ISBN: 0517124378
Publisher: Wings Books, New York 1984.
8vo. hardcover. 422pp. Very good, light tanning to page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


A Dictionary of Latin Tags and Useful Phrases
Ehrlich, Eugene.
Book Number: 63096
ISBN: 0709031459
Publisher: Robert Hale London, 1995.
8vo. softcover. 260pp. index. Very good, rubbing to cover corners.
Price: $12.00


How Not to Say What You Mean, A Dictionary of Euphemisms
Holder, R. W.
Book Number: 63010
ISBN: 0198604025
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.
8vo. hardcover. 501pp. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


Nothing Rhymes with Orange: Perfect Words for Poets, Songwriters, and Rhymers
Redfield, Bessie G.
Book Number: 62994
ISBN: 9780399534652
Publisher: Perigee 2008.
9vo. softcover. 346pp. Near Fine.
Price: $12.00


The Chambers Rhyming Dictionary
Brooks, Ian; Rodger, Liam; Holmes, Andrew. (editors)
Book Number: 62992
ISBN: 
Publisher: Chambers UK. 2003.
8vo. Paperback. 421pp. Very good.
Price: $10.00


Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
Room, Adrian (compiled by)
Book Number: 62981
ISBN:  0304358711
Publisher: Cassell & Co, London, 2002
8vo hardcover 1523pp. near fine.
Price: $18.00


Maori Picture Dictionary
Reed, A.W. (compiled by)
Book Number: 62973
ISBN: 
Publisher: A.H.& A W Reed, New Zealand, 19645
8vo. dec. boards, hardcover. 144pp. Very good with faded spine.
Price: $15.00


Latin for All Occasions
Beard, Henry
Book Number: 62939
ISBN: 0207171254
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, UK 1991.
8vo. hardcover. 91pp. b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00


Discovering Egyptian Hieroglyphs, A Practical Guide
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor
Book Number: 62896
ISBN: 0500276943
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London 2004
8vo. softcover. 121pp. colour & b/w illus. Near Fine.
Price: $22.00


Tagalog Dictionary,
Ramos, Teresita V.
Book Number: 62633
ISBN: 0870226762
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press 1971,
8vo. softcover. 330oo, Very good, foxing on edge of cover.
Price: $10.00


The Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
Hendrickson, Robert
Book Number: 47522
ISBN: 0333460898
Publisher: Macmillan 1987
4to. hardcover. 581pp. Very good. / Very good d/w. Small tear to cover and wrapper at bottom of spine(repaired).
Price: $18.00


NTC's Compact Korean and English Dictionary
Jones, B.J.; Rhie, Gene
Book Number: 62634
ISBN: 0844283614
Publisher: NTC Publishing 1995
8vo. softcover. 394pp. Good, first 100 pages wavy on bottom edge.
Price: $10.00


The Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
Hendrickson, Robert
Book Number: 45838
ISBN: 0333460898
Publisher: Macmillan 1987
4to. hardcover. 581pp. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $30.00



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