Whose What? : Aaron's Beard to Zorn's Lemma.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First edition, first printing. A reference book for all the strange expressions that have entered the American language.
Words & Language
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Buckley: The Right Word.
Random House, 1996. First edition, first printing.
Sticklers, Sideburns & Bikinis : The Military Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases.
Osprey, 2008. First edition, first printing.
Dreyer's English : An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style.
Random House, 2019. Later printing.
Dictionary of the Undoing.
Corsair, 2020. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb.
Ginn & Company, 1897. Rewritten and Enlarged. Maroon cloth, lacking dust jacket.
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed.
Pantheon, 1993. Later printing.
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.
Bilingual
Harvard U. Press, First edition, first printing.
Metaphors Be With You : An A-to-Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations.
Harper, 2016. First edition, first printing.
The Enchanted Hour : The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction.
Harper, 2019. First edition, first printing.
Poetry Notebook: Reflections on the Intensity of Language.
W.W. Norton, 2015. First American Edition.
A Standard English-Swahili Dictionary.
Oxford, 1965.
Globish : How the English Language Became the World's Language.
W.W. Norton, 2010. First edition, first printing.
The African Svelte : Ingenious Misspellings that Make Surprising Sense.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. First edition, first printing. Signed by both author and illustrator. Forward by Billy Collins.
101 Two-Letter Words.
W.W. Norton, 2014. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author.
Greek To Me
W.W. Norton, 2015. First edition, first printing.
Woe is I : The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English.
Riverhead, 1996. First edition, first printing.
The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament.
Zondervan, 1998. 2nd printing. Glazed boards.
Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
Penguin, 2014. Later printing.
The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image.
Viking, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Thirty Days Has September : Cool Ways to Remember Stuff.
Scholastic, 2008. Later printing. Blue and brown paper boards, no dust jacket.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
Hendrickson. 1997. Second printing. Glazed boards. Lacking dust jacket.
The Secret Lives of Words.
Harcourt, Inc., 2000. First edition, first printing.
Word Myths : Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends.
Oxford, 2004. First edition, first printing.
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