Search Results: Language and Grammar Studies from Minotavros Books

United States: CINCPAC-CINCPOA, 1945. Soft cover. Good. 8vo. With Kanji translations. Quarter red cloth, russet stiff card boards, duotang binding. x, 360 pp. Spine reinforced with packing tape, . Damp staining to interior. The distribution list at rear indicates that 462 copies went to the Army, 243 copies went to the Navy, and 250 copies to the Marines.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xv, 298 pp. Some light creasing and bumping to corners, else fine. This book introduces students to English literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, from 600 to 1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays.

Glasgow & Edinburgh: Porteous Brothers; John Ross & Company, 1877. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Orig. printed wrappers, calf spine, iv, 5-24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24; 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24. Illustrated. Light foxing, trimmed edges [not affecting text; wrappers chipped at outer edges; covers a bit faded, with small written notations on three volumes, but in fact very good copy. A wonderful example of late 19th century chapbooks from Scotland's popular literature in the 1700s.

Bern: A. Francke S.A., 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo. Orig. tan cloth. x, 176 pp. Spine tilted, rubbing to extremities. Interior is age toned.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. vi, 319 pp. Covers are age toned, creasing to joints, bruising to spine ends.

Kirkwall: Kirkall Press. Soft cover. Good. Brown, Moira. 8vo (slim). (n.d.). Original pictorial wrappers, 30, (2)pp. Illustrated in-text. Light foxing to pages and wrappers, covers somewhat creased, especially at corners. Lower spine bruised with a small tear to foot, otherwise a good copy. Contains 4 long poems by Orkney poet Gregor Lamb.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green cloth. vii, 551 pp. Cloth is soiled and scuffed, spine faded and tilted. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Rear inner hinge starting at last page.

Kent, UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. 16mo. Teach Yourself Books. Soft cover. v, 184 pp. Light creasing and a few small spots of rubbing to spine, a few scuffs to rear.

New York: Hippocrene Books, 2003. Soft cover. Fine. 4.25" x 7" Soft cover. 601 pp. Wear from sticker removal at head of rear cover, else fine. Easy to use format. Alphabetical listings in both languages. A perfect resource for students or travellers.

Coloniae Brandenburgicae: Sumptibus Danielis Reichelli, 1669. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. Bound in blue unlettered wrappers. [4] 68 pp.,, woodcut device on title page, bookplate of Lt. Colonel V.S.M. de Guinzbourg on front inner cover. Pages browning, light sunning and sporadic soil to wraps, corners bruised, front bottom corner curled, a small dampstain to lower front cover and tiny nick at lower spine, but still very good. Johannes Vorst [1623-1676] was a German rector, philologist, and theologian. Vorst received his doctorate in theology from Rostock, and in 1659 became the rector of the newly-established Joachimisthal grammar school (Edward Schroder, "Vorst, Johannes" in: General German Biography 40, 1986, pp. 308-309).

London: The Folio Society, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Forster, Peter. 4.5" x 7" Quarter black cloth, marbled paper boards. xviii, 365 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Fine in fine slipcase.

Hertfoerdshire, England: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Wordsworth Reference Series. Paperback, 254pp. Light rubbing and edgewear, o/w near fine.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 5.5" x 8" American Century Series. Soft cover. 211 pp. Covers deeply toned, spine faded. Light rubbing to edges.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo (imperial). Full maroon cloth, gold lettering. xiii, 854 pp. Fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, a few tears to edges, some light staining to spine. The great English authors of the period 1500-1700 made copious use of proverbs, native and imported, by direct quotation and by allusion, and their full meaning cannot be readily grasped without recognition of the proverbial phrases that they had in mind. The greatest of them all, William Shakespeare, was also the one whose knowledge of proverbs was most comprehensive and who availed himself of them most freely and skillfully. Professor Morris P. Tilley's A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, a compilation as exhaustive as thrity years of collection and study could make it, is intended to serve not only as a definitive proverb dictionary of this great period in English literature but also as an instrument for its… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe, 2003. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. English-German (vol/band 1) German-English (vol/band 2). Second, completely revised and expanded edition. Orig. paper boards. xi, 548;535 pp. Bruising to lower corners of vol. 1, a few light spots of chafing to board. Light soiling to spine foot of vol. 2, some light staining to fore edge of text block.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1955. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Unbound signatures. [2], 290 pp. A few small stains to verso of last page. Fine overall.

Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1805. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Contemporary calf. xlii, unpaged [A-3A4]. Chipping and wear to spine ends, worse at foot. Cracking to joints. Damp staining and foxing to interior. Ffep detached and laid in, with ownership inscription of Henry Whittemore, Roxbury. A very good copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. xiv, 370 pp. Extremities sunned, crease to lower corner of rear cover, else fine. "Here is a new thing under the sun, a virtually exhaustive treatment of lexicography by a single author qualified for the task by long practical experience and a strong and trained lexicographical intelligence." -Times Literary Supplement (from rear cover).

London: John Russell Smith, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Eighth edition. Full burgundy cloth. xxxvi, 480 pp; 481-960, 32 pp. Roughly cut edges. Rebacked with new spine, printed paper spine labels, new endpapers. Boards are scuffed and stained. Some rubbing and wear to extremities. Blacked out portions to copyright page, with some show-through to title page, and pencil notation of LOC classification and "cancelled" on top of the blackout (possible ex-library [no marks remain indicating which library].).

Larousse. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full blue cloth, white lettering. Moire endpapers. xxi, 630 pp. Navy ribbon marker. Light age toning to pages. Slight darkening to spine and top edges of dust jacket, bump to top edge of rear cover. This dictionary looks at the historical limits of ancient French, from la Chanson de Roland until 1350.