Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary [TWO VOLUMES].
Oxford, 1979. Later printing. Blue cloth, housed in publisher's two-slot slipcase. Includes original publisher's magnifying glass in sliding tray and acetate pulls.
Words & Language
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford, 1994. Second Edition, later printing. Blue cloth, housed in publisher's slipcase, with magnifying glass and User's Guide in stapled wraps. Includes original publisher's magnifying glass and User's Guide.
Treasury of Proverbs and Epigrams
New York: Avenel Books, 1954. Later printing. Publisher's glazed boards, title stamped in silver.
Algospeak : How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Irish Proverbs
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986. Later printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Whose What? : Aaron's Beard to Zorn's Lemma.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. A reference book for all the strange expressions that have entered the American language.
The Superior Person's Third Book Of Well-Bred Words.
Godine, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Unlocking the English Language
London: Faber and Faber, 1989. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The English Language.
London: Folio Society, 2008. Later printing. Cloth-backed paper boards in publisher's slipcase. Introduction by Robert McCrum. Afterword by John Simpson.
Bennett Cerf's Treasury of Atrocious Puns
Harper & Row, 1968. With illustrations by Michael K. Frith. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Verbivore's Feast : A Banquet of Word & Phrase Origins.
Helena, Montana: Farcountry Press, 2004. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Briefly inscribed by Chrysti on the title page.
Spell It Out : The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Toujours Tingo : More Extraordinary Words to Change the Way We See the World.
Allen Lane, 2007. Illustrations by Sandra Howgate. Early printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Great Typo Hunt : Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
New York: Crown Publishers, 2010. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Dreyer's English : An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style.
Random House, 2019. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb.
Ginn & Company, 1897. Rewritten and Enlarged. Maroon cloth.
The New Well-Tempered Sentence : A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed.
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Expanded and Revised edition, later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Chasing the Sun : Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Irish Wit & Wisdom.
Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, 1998. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Defining the World : The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Later printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Surfaces and Essences : Analogy at the Fuel and Fire of Thinking.
New York: Basic Books, 2013. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
The Guinness Book of Poisonous Quotes
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1993. First printing thus. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
A Standard English-Swahili Dictionary.
[Cambridge, UK]: Oxford, 1965. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.
Science and Sanity : An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics.
Lancaster, PA: The International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Company, 1933. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth, blind ruled, with gilt spine title. [vi], xx, 798 [2]. 9.5" x 6.5" Alfred Korzybski was a Polish-American philosopher who created the field of general semantics, which operates from the belief that we have.....
Over Their Dead Bodies : Yankee Epitaphs & History
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1962. Illustrated by George Daly. Later printing. Hardcover in dust jacket.