Avis walter s editor (6 Ergebnisse)

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 264pp. mass market paperback, VG, slight reading crease to spine, spine faded, slight water stain on spine, two corner tips slightly bumped and creased, Anthology of Sam Slick, Yankee clock peddler, traveling through Nova Scotia and Great Britain commenting on what he saw with humor, wit and an acid tongue, selected excerpts from eleven books in the series.…

Trade Paper. Zustand: Good Condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. As Issued. This book is an abridgment of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Illustated card binding is slightly rubbed along edges and corners. Rubber stamped name of previouse owner on front flyleaf. Content clean and sound. Illustrations By Jean Galt and Mary Guest. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first printing/. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In fine, clear acetate dust jacket. An extensive collection of words and expressions used in Canada over the preceding 400 years.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1590 page hardcover dictionary for Canadian. 158,000 entries with 200,000 definitions, plus Canadian college and university lists and government charters and laws. Clearly geared for Canadians. Dust jacket is bright, crisp and clean. Black board exterior with title on spine in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. 1st. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine in Near Fine clear acetate dust jacket with a 1/2" tear to edge near the spine head in Good only slipcase with edges rubbed. Red cloth, xxiv, 927pp, [8] blank pages for Reader's Notes. Small line drawings. "That part of Canadian English which is neiher British nor American is best illustrated by the vocabulary, for there are hundreds of words which are native to Canada or which have meanings peculiar to Canada". Pink tea: a social gathering attended chiefly by women. Mudpup: a young Englishman sent out to Western Canada to learn farming. Mukluk: a warm knee-high boot worn by the Inuit and Aboriginals of the Northest Territries and the Yukon. Muskeg: an organic bog which is brown or black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth. Stook: a structure of grain sheaves, sometimes set up end to end in five or six pairs, (a long stook) sometimes in a circle (a round stook). (4.2 JM HQ 103/5 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Galt, Jean; Guest, Mary (illustrator).…

1967. (Hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 927pp. In the vinyl dust jacket and in the publisher's slipcase. Illustrations, bibliography. The slipcase has some wear at the edges and has some peeling at the back. Series: Dictionary of Canadian English. (Dictionary, Dictionary, Language).