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Calif. UP., 1961. Periodical. [2], 110 p., facsimile plates; printed blue paper wrappers, as issued; grease spot on front cover, else VG. Copy of Lewis Hall Gordon, professor of comparative literature, with a few of his pencil notes. Includes Malkiel, Three Definitions of Romance Linguistics; Fought, Sigmatism in French; Dembowski, En marge du vocabulaire de Robert de… Read more

David McKay, NY. "Reprinted December 1961". Hard Cover. xv, 544 p., 17 cm. Red cloth stamped in black; minor wear, ink owner name; VG. 37919 {mrp}.

Baltimore, Penguin [1963]. Soft Cover. 378 p.; 20 cm. "This book wittily attacks linguistic abusage of all kinds, and at the same time offers helpful, constructive advise on the proper use of English." MPR. Stock# 32,040. Good+, but pages darkened/ paper.

NY, Odyssey [1927]. Hard Cover. xv, 414 p., illus., 20.5 cm. A textbook for beginners in Spanish. Stock# 32,782. Vg/ no dj.

Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa / Warsaw, 1973. Hard Cover. xvi, 1030 p., 17 cm. Orange cloth stamped in black; red dj chipped; pages darkening; good+. 37446.

Baltimore, American Association of Teachers of French, 1969. Periodical. Includes Greene, Louis Guilloux's Le Sang noir: A Prefiguration of Sartre's La Nausée; Alden, Quinette, Landru, & Raskolnikoff; Furber, The Myth of amour-propre in La Rochefoucauld; Sakharoff, L'Etourdi de Molière, ou l'école des innocents; Leiner, Venceslas ou le triomphe de la royauté; Pelletier, Le Caractère biculturel & bilingue du Canada;… Read more

Cambridge, MIT Press [1967]. . Soft Cover. viii, 64 p., index, illus.; 23.5 cm. Stock #29,573x. VG/ wrappers.. Linguistics, philology, grammar, communication.

California Uni. Press, 1964. Periodical. Contents include Farnham, Romanesque Design in the 'Chanson de Roland'; Sawyer, Implications of Spanish /r/ and /rr/ in Wappo History; review articles (Catalán, Nuevos enfoques de la fonologí­a española; Keller, Lexical Inventory of Swiss-French Dialects); reviews & notes. 143-252 pages, 25.5 cm.; blue printed wrappers, as issued; spine slightly darkened; VG. Stock#31520.

Alajuela, Costa-Rica, Alfalit [Port-au-Prince]. Committee on World Literacy & Christian Literature, ©1966. Selections from New Testament books Matthew and John. In Haitian. From the ilbrary of romance linguist Raphael G. Urciolo. Soft Cover. 29 pages, illus. (some color); 23 cm. Vg / soft cover. Stock#47199.

Roma, Cuggiani, 1939. Soft Cover. 18 p., 23 cm. Società Filologica Romana. Stock# 41,834. Author's inscr.; Vg / offprint.

Oxford UP, 1942. Hard Cover. xvii, 347p. A textbook "A student who has first gained some insight into the nature of a living language will be more ready to realize that Old and Middle English were once living too." Stock# 32,006. Vg/ nl dj.

Kalinin, 1980, Kalininskie Gosudarstv. Univ. . Soft Cover. 158 p. 20 cm. Ministerstvo Vysshego i Srednego Spetsialnogo Obrazovaniia RSFSR, Kalininskie Gosudarstv. Univ. Papers on semantics, pragmatics, comparative and general grammar, Syntax. Stock #25774. vg/ paper.

Gallimard, Paris [mars 1955]. Soft Cover. 264, [2] pages; 19 cm. Includes Palinodie ou Leçons de bien dire et de bien faire; Proverbes; Chansons; Mots de ma mère; Mots de mon père; Solécismes, archaismes, néologismes sans avenir; Glossaire; Le Domaine de mon père; Valérie & Toussaint-Annet; Les rogations; Les Soupes-rousses; Intervention de ma sœur; Revanche de la bru; Veillée… Read more

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1976]. Hard Cover. ix, 207 p., index; 23.5 cm. "A smog of jargon is settling on our fair land. Newman blows it away with sweet reason." Stock# 31,469. Vg/ dj (small tear); VG

The Hague & Paris, Mouton, 1968. Soft Cover. 128 p.; 23 cm. Janua linguarum. Series minor, nr. 73. A critical review of current American linguistic theory directed toward the views of Noam Chomsky. Stock#46804. Good+ / soft cover, slight tear at base of spine.

N.Y., Norton [1965]. Hard Cover. x, 273 pages, maps; 22 cm. Very Good; dj clipped, worn With the author's presentation inscription. A second copy, not signed. Stock#31867x.

[Dublin], Celtic League, [1983?]. Soft Cover. [v], 331 pages, illus., 21 cm. 34 essays; texts in English, Breton, French, Gaelic, Irish, Manx, and Welsh. Stock#37959. Good+/ paper .

Univ. Calif. Press, 1968. Periodical. Includes Várvaro, Nuovi studi sul 'Libro de buen amor' I: Problemi testuali; Klum, Notional Versus Formal Analysis, Applied to Romance Conjugation; 21 reviews. [2], 133-258 pages, 25.5 cm.; blue printed wrappers; spine a bit cocked, light spotting to covers; good+. Stock#31552.

Paris, Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1932.. Hard Cover. Tome II ONLY. [iii], 406 p. 26.5 cm. Etymological dictionary of contemporary French language, giving date of earliest appearance, derivatives, etc. Seehy (10th) AD 313. Stock# 41,036. Vg/ no dj.

Paris: Leroy frères, 1883. Hard Cover. ix, 268 pages; 15.5 cm. Title continues: "...avec la prononciation italienne figurée... par C.-I. Rapelli." Quatrième édition. Owner signature of distinguished hispanist "Alan S. Trueblood Paris Sur les quais 9 Janvier 1939". Copies of Rapelli editions are listed in few French libraries; none in the U.S. Stock#46051. Good+, in original printed boards.