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Chicago: Spencer Press, 1953. Books are in GOOD condition/NO dust jacket. Dark green leatherette hard covers with bright gilt design & lettering on fronts & spines. Both volumes have small corner, edge & spine end rubs & bumps. Spine ends are shelf dented. Page edges are lightly age tanned. End papers contain "Etymology Key, "Pronunciation Key", "Languages", & "Foreign Sounds" charts. Volume 1 is "A to Patras" and Volume 2 is "Pa... Read More

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Bath, England: Paragon, 1999. VERY GOOD to NEAR FINE book condition/VERY GOOD+ dust jacket. Glossy illustrated hard cover with matching dust jacket. Very minor shelf dent to tail of spine & one small spot on bottom front edge. Dust jacket has minor shelf rub along top & corners. One small (1/8") triangular closed tear to lower back along spine edge. "Young readers will find the Children's Illustrated Dictionary an invaluable tool for extending and developing their language skills. Full color illustration... Read More

Bookseller: Denney Book Shelf (Kansas, United States)

New York: Hurst & Company, Publishers. GOOD book condition/NO dust jacket. Black cloth hard cover with fading gilt lettering on spine. Spine darkening. General rubs to faces, corners, edges, head & tail of spine. Head & tail of spine slightly shelf dented. Tail of spine shows 1/4" of fraying. Top half of back 1 1/2" out from spine show evidence of past dampness. Previous owner name on inner fep. Page edges are tanning & have a few small light spots. 312pp. Tight, clean pages. Picture is provided by... Read More

Bookseller: Denney Book Shelf (Kansas, United States)

Berlin: Langenscheidtsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1929. FAIR book condition/NO dust jacket. Corners chipped & rubbed, edges rubbed, head & tail rubbed with slight fraying. Front & Back hinges broken but attached. Ffep still attached at top. Owner name & Hamburg Universitat, Hamburg, May 10, 1934 on ffep. Pocket Dictionary of the English and German Languages. First Part English-German, Second Part German-English. Body of dictionary intact & attached. Some small staining & pencil notations on ffep & a f... Read More

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New York: Random House, 1992. FINE+ book condition/NEAR FINE dust jacket. Navy blue faux leatherette with embossed red publisher logo & title on front, red lettering on spine. No apparent damage. Glossy dust jacket has very minor edge, corner & spine end rub with mild general shelf scuff. "Like a fantastic restaurant menu with hundreds of focabulary categories and thousands of tempting choices. More than a dictionary, The Random House Word Menu arranges words in a logical structure -- with nearly 80... Read More

Bookseller: Denney Book Shelf (Kansas, United States)

New York: MacMillan Co, 1936. GOOD book condition/NO dust jacket. Deep blue linen like cloth hard cover with gilt lettering on front & spine. Spine sun faded. Corner & edge rubs & bumps. Small (1/2") edge chip with fray on back bottom. Back bottom corner has small crease. Head & tail of spine shelf dented & rubbed. Previous owner name & phone numbers on ffep. Fingerprint smudge to leading edge of pages. Hinges & pages tight & clean. This is an alphabetical list of titles with author & short descrip... Read More

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H.W. Wilson Company, 1990. VERY GOOD to NEAR FINE book condition/NO dust jacket. Burgandy cloth hard cover with previous owner name/address sticker on ffep. From the Preface: "As English is used more and more throughout the world, users everywhere need a dictionary that explains important new words and meanings. ... Like the first and second Dictionaries of new English, this volume "is a lexical index of the new words of the past decade, a record of the most recent terms required and created by our... Read More

Bookseller: Denney Book Shelf (Kansas, United States)

New York: MacMillan Co, 1997. FINE to VERY FINE book condition/NO dust jacket as issued. Glossy illustrated hard cover. Minor dent to spine ends. Otherwise as new. Spine uncracked. Never used. Pronunciation Key on ffep. Word Finder Table on back paste down & bfep. "An illustrated dictionary, featuring selected word histories, synonym studies, lists of words with prefixes or suffixes, and spelling tips. Also included are an Atlas, Album of the Presidents (through Clinton), Album of the States, State... Read More

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New York: J.H. Sears & Co., Inc., 1924. GOOD- book condition/NO dust jacket. Red cloth hard cover with black decoration & lettering on front & black lettering on spine. Corner, edge & corner rubs & dents. Overall severe light spotting -- red dye has work off. Small amount of rub through at bottom back corner. Based upon the original foundation laid by Noah Webster, LL.D and other eminent lexicographers. Occasional pencil check mark. Small tear to top of bfep. 246 pp. Pages are tight. Shipping in th... Read More

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. VREY GOOD to NEAR FINE book condition/GOOD+ dust jacket. Red hard cover with bright gilt lettering on front & spine. Tiny amount of shelf dent to spine ends. Dust jacket has very light corner, edge & spine end rubs with a little bit of edge creasing & a few very light surface scratches. Previous owner name on bottom of front paste down. "More than 200,000 clear, concise definitions, thousands of example of words in actual use, New entries from acupres... Read More

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Maplewood, NJ: Hammond Inc., 1990. FINE book condition/VERY GOOD+ dust jacket. Red cloth hard cover with white title on front & white lettering on spine. Extremely light shelf dent to tail of spine. Almost invisible dent near top on front. Otherwise AS NEW. Glossy, colorful, illustrated dust jacket with edge, corner & spine end rubs. Pictures and descriptions of parts in the following categories: The Earth, Living Things, Shelters and Structures, Transportation, Communication, Personal Ite... Read More

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. VERY GOOD book condition/NO dust jacket. Paperback with mild corner, edge & spine end rubs & bumps. Small (1/8") chip to top of spine. Light shelf scuff. Previous owner name/address sticker on ffep. From the Introduction: "To love anything, you must first know it. To love words, you must first know what they are. Yes, words are symbols of ideas. But many words have lives of their own. They have their own historical and etymological associations, their own ro... Read More

Bookseller: Denney Book Shelf (Kansas, United States)