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Linguistics List
Last updated January 18, 2010
1. Baker, George M - editor. NEGRO
DIALECT RECITATIONS: COMPRISING A SERIES OF THE MOST POPULAR SELECTIONS IN PROSE
AND VERSE. Boston, Lee and Shepard Publishers:
1888. 127 pages. Missing front paper cover. Back cover is intact. The paper
spine is about halfway chipped away. Soiling to the back cover. Staple binding
is tight. A very scarce black dialect book. $55.00
2. Deal, David Allen. THE
NEXUS SPOKEN LANGUAGE: THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAYAN AND SEMITIC DURING
PRE-COLUMBIAN TIMES. Columbus, Georgia, Institute
for the Study of American Cultures: 1993. 134 pages. Slight shelf wear to spine
and corners. $115.00
3. Gallup, Frank A.. A
LATIN READER: EASY SELECTIONS FOR BEGINNERS. New
York, American Book Co.: 1913. 143 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to
spine and corners. Corners slightly bumped. $9.50
4. Gessler, Elizabeth. Guignol
a L'ecole. Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Gessler:
1937. 64 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Corners
slightly bumped. This is a book of puppet player for beginning French students.
$9.00
5. Grimes, Barbara F. ETHNOLOGUE
LANGUAGE NAME INDEX: TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION OF THE ETHNOLOGUE. Dallas,
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc. : 1996. 288 pages. Corners slightly
bumped. Softbound covers. $7.50
6. Henn, P. A
SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS OF GERMAN GRAMMER: BEING A COMPREHENSIVE COMPILATION OF ALL
THE RULES TAUGHT AND EXEMPLIFIED IN AHN'S RUDIMENTS OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE WITH
REFERENCES TO THE EXERCISES ON SUCH RULES. New
York, E. Steigner: 1877. 127 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine
and corners. Corners slightly bumped. The leather spine has a split down the
front joint and a couple of small pieces missing from the leather. $55.00
7. Keetels, Jean Gustave. AN
ANALYTICAL AND PRACTICAL FRENCH GRAMMAR. New York,
Maynard, Merrill, & Co. : 1893. 548 pages. Heavy shelf wear and rubbing to
spine and corners. A few stained spots to the covers. Front hinge cracked, but
binding is holding. $7.00
8. Krapp, George Philip. THE
KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH. New York, Henry Holt: 1927.
Some wear and rubbing to spine and corners. $6.95
9. Lowe, Cornelius Marshal. BELLUM
HELVETIUM, FOR BEGINNERS IN LATIN. Chicago,
Albert, Scott, and Company: 1891. 279 pages. Shelf wear to binding and rubbing
to spine and corners. Corners bumped. The cloth is starting to fray at the
edges. $20.00
10. Nuttall, P. Austin. THE
STANDARD PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. London,
Frederick Warne: ca. 1890. Some shelf wear. Corners bumped. Top edge of text
block has a stain. $40.00
11. Rieber, R.W.-editor. THE
PROBLEM OF STUTTERING: THEORY AND THERAPY. New
York, Elsevier: 1977. There is an ink stamp that says "library surplus
material" on the front endpage, but no other library marks. Former owner's
ink stamp is crossed out with pen. Some wear, rubbing and fading to spine $7.50
12. Royo, D. Manuel Ainsa. GRAMATICA
PRACTICA, PARA HABLAR, LEER, Y ESCRIBIR POR PRINCIPIOS GRAMATICALES LOS IDIOMAS
CASTELLANO, INGLES, FRANCES E ITALIANO. Barcelona,
Spain, Imprenta De Valentin Torras: 1837. 430 pages. Oblong leather binding.
Heavy shelf wear to the spine edges and the corners. Some scuffs to leather
binding. Nice marbled paper endpapers and paste-downs. With a couple of fold-out
charts in the middle of the book. One of the charts has a small piece missing at
the bottom, affecting a small amount of text. The hinges are tight and the text
block is sound. Former owner's name in ink on the title page. $250.00
13. Smirnitsky, A. I. RUSSIAN-ENGLISH
DICTIONARY. New York, E. P. Dutton: 1959. Some
shelf wear. Slight soiling to covers. $6.00
14. Vaughan, L. Brent. HILL'S
SPANISH ENGLISH AND ENGLISH SPANISH VEST POCKET DICTIONARY AND SELF INSTRUCTOR. Chicago,
G.M. Hill: 1898. 317 pages. Small flexible leather covers. The spine edges have
small chips to the leather. There are a few scuffs to the leather covers. The
binding is tight. An early Spanish-English dictionary. $19.50
15. Webster, William G. & William A. Wheeler. A COMMON-SCHOOL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Explanatory, Pronouncing, and Synonymous with an Appendix Containing Various Useful Tables. Mainly Abridged from the Latest Edition of the American Dictionary of Noah Webster. New York & Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. : 1879. 391 pages. Some shelf wear to binding and rubbing to spine and corners. Black leather spine. Some stains and scuffs to the covers. A few of the illustrated pages at the back of the book are partially torn away. $22.50