Dictionaries & Language Study from Classic Books and Ephemera

London: Printed for C. Hitch, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volumes; 17 cm. Contemporary speckled calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in the second compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled title: Rollin's Belles Lettres; volume number gilt-tooled in third compartment of each. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. "London 1742"… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Eighth US Edition. "The Only Dictionary Available with Complete Coverage of Latin-American Spanish" -- dust jacket. xlv, [3], 1036, [2], 63, [4], 1042-2141 p.; 27 cm. Grey cover with black spine title. Orange dust jacket with title: Collins Spanish Unabridged Dictionary. Orange endpapers. Abbreviations,… Read more about this item

Allentown, Pa: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine. vii, [1], 178, [2] p., 4 leaves of illustrations (1 folded): many full-page and in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine title, and red cover illustration. Title page has decorative red border. Decorated inital letters in red. Gift inscription on front free… Read more about this item

New York: Jemima M. Mason, 1840. Hardcover. Very Good -. 716 p.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red leather label in second compartment: "Blackwood's Magazine." Remains of small paper label at head of spine. Five issues bound together, each… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good -. "One-volume abridged edition." [2], xxv, [1], 777, [1], cxxiv, [4] p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. top page edges green. Dust jacket with design based on an original by W. A. Dwiggins; price-clipped. A heavy book; for international… Read more about this item

New York: Hippocrene Books, 2013. Paperback. Fine. xii, 299, [1] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. With 2 cds in sleeves inside front and back cover. "The complete intermediate course" -- on front cover. Includes answers to exercises, English-arabic glossary, and grammar index. In English and Arabic throughout. In Fine… Read more about this item

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1987. Paperback. Very Good +. 259, [13] p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Publisher's advertisements on final 10 unpaginated pages. An amusing correspondence in German and English. In Very Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; clean and tight.

Saarbruckern, Ger: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. [4], 72, [10] p.; 22 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. In this masters thesis, the author examines and compares two approaches to teaching modern Greek to adults -- the translation approach and the total-immersion approach. In Very Good Condition: pencilled underlining on a few pages.… Read more about this item

New York: McGraw Hill, 2012. Paperback. Near Fine. Second Edition. iv, 32, [2], 667 p.; 26 cm. Paperback. Includes English-Russian verb index, irregular verb index, and Russian verb index. The Russian text is in the Cyrillic alphabet. In Near Fine Condition: upper page edges slightly soiled; otherwise, clean and tight.

Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xxix, [1], 309 p.: illustrations, tables; 21 cm. Black cloth with silver spine title. Dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Conditon: 3 punctures along back joint; otherwise, clean and bright.

S.l.: LearnOutLive, 2013. Paperback. Fine. 93, [3] p.: illustrations; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.

Allentown, Pa: Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good +. v, [1], 213, [3] p., 1 leaf with a portrait: 1 leaf with a portrait included in pagination; 23 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine and cover titles. Title page has decorative red border. Decorated inital letters in red. Contents: In Memoriam John… Read more about this item

London: Rough Guides, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. 251, [5] p.: illustrations; 15 cm. Paperback. Publisher's advertisements on final 3 pages and covers. Includes English-to-Russian and Russian-to-English vocabulary; phrases for specific scenarios; and sections on food and drink. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; upper corner of front cover slightly creased; clean and tight.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Anglais, 1793. Hardcover. Good. Nouvelle Edition. [24], 264 p.; 16 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. 19th-century repair of joints with dark brown linen; later repair of front joint with white linen. Small bookplate of the Lynn Public Library on front fixed endpaper; "Rules and Regulations" of the… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1860. Hardcover. Good. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. vi, [2], 287, [17] p., frontispiece facsimile of German script: tables; 19 cm. Leather spine with gilt spine title; dark green cloth over boards. All page edges speckled red. Publisher's advertisements on endpapers for Perkins' Arithmetical Series, Algebraic Series, and… Read more about this item

Silver Spring, MD: Papaloizos Publications, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. [4], 73 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Text is in Greek and English. Without the grammar text, which it is designed to accompany. In Near Fine Condition: light pencil marks on first few pages; otherwise, clean and tight.

Middletown, DE: Ulan Press, 2015. Paperback. Near Fine. [6], viii, 203, [21] p.; 25 cm. Paperback. This is a reproduction of the 1890 edition published by Allyn and Bacon, Boston. Includes a vocabulary. In Near Fine Condition: cover slightly rubbed; two page corners creased; clean and tight.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition. Vol. 4 only: xii, 568 p., 1 folded map of the world according to Hecataeus; 22 cm. 19th-century polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather labels in second and third compartments with gilt-tooled title "Literature of Ancient Greece" and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1829. Hardcover. Very Good. The Ninth Edition, Revised and Improved. viii, 184 p.; 18 cm. Modern calf with gilt-tooled spine label. Inclues index. The author, James Ross (1743-1827), was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He headed a grammar school in Carlisle, Pa., from 1780 to… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Kohler Publishing Co, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. Neue und verbesserte Ausgabe. 96 p.: illustations; 19 cm. Brown cloth spine; cover title in black on plain paper. Cover has title vignette of an eagle feeding birds in a nest. Title page has title vignette of a dish full of fruit, including a pineapple. … Read more about this item