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Catalogo da exposic¸ do bibliografica comemorativa do primeiro centenario do nascimiento de Marcelino Menendez Pelayo.

By: (Silva, Dr. Emilio, compiler).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rio de Janeiro, Biblioteca National: 1956

Seller ID: 9927

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

TEXT IN SPANISH. 119pp., portrait frontis; printed white wrappers with tanning to extremities. Business Card of P. Dr. Emilio Silva de Castro laid in with a holograph note of thanks on a scrap of paper, to "Dear W." Separate slip laid in "Prof. Woodbridge." Would appear to be Hensley Charles Woodbridge.

Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, was a Spanish scholar, historian and literary critic. Even though his main interest was the history of ideas, and Hispanic philology in general, he also cultivated poetry, translation and philosophy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in L...
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First Readings in Old English, selected and edited with Introduction, Notes & Glossary.

By: Ardern, P. S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wellington, New Zealand University Press: 1951

Seller ID: 9738

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Condition

270pp.; 8vo; printed gray wrappers; two folding maps. Moderate wear, toning and soil to covers; spine tanned.

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Fervent and Full of Gifts. The Life of Althea Warren.

By: Boaz, Martha.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Scarecrow Press: 1961

Seller ID: 3505

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

163 pp., incl. bibliography of books & articles by Althea Warren; 8vo; mustard cloth, no dust jacket.

Althea Hester Warren (1886-1958), during a long and influential carrer in Library Science, she was president of the American Library Association (1943-1944) and Los Angeles City Librarian (1933-1947).
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UCJ: An Orthographic System of Notation and transcription for Sino-Japanese.

By: Boodberg, Peter A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University Of California Press: 1947

Seller ID: 9803

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

102pp. 4to; printed gray wrappers. Inscription from the author on front cover top spine corner. Chips to leading yapp edges; slight tanning to extremities.

University of California Publications in East Asiatic Philology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 17-102.
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The Long Trail. What the British Soldier Sang and Said in The Great War of 1914-18.

By: Brophy, John and Eric Partridge.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1965

Seller ID: 4950

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Very Good jacket, in protective mylar wrap

239 pp.; 8vo; red paper over boards, in white & red jacket; black & white photographs. Slight age toning to jacket at back & extremities.

First published in 1930, with the last of three editions published in 1931, now completely revised and re-arranged by Mr. Brophy.
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Sir William Jones and Edmund Burke.

By: Cannon, Garland H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: no place, Modern Philology: no date

Seller ID: 9770

Abstract: Reprinted for private circulation from Modern Philology, Vol. LIV, No. 3, February, 1957. Pages 165-186; 8vo; stapled, printed gray wrappers. Leading corners well bumped; odd wavy tanning pattern to extremities of back cover. Text pages fine, save for leading corners.

Sir William Jones (1746 –1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-E...
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Image for Le Secretaire a` la mode Reforme´, ou le Mercure Nouveau, contenant les lettres choisies des plus beaux esprits de ce temps, avec une nouvelle instruction a` ecrire des lettres, et VI entretiens de la civilite´, le tout mis en ordre par Francois de Fenne ...

Le Secretaire a` la mode Reforme´, ou le Mercure Nouveau, contenant les lettres choisies des plus beaux esprits de ce temps, avec une nouvelle instruction a` ecrire des lettres, et VI entretiens de la civilite´, le tout mis en ordre par Francois de Fenne ...

By: DE FENNE, FRANCOIS, (PUT IN ORDER BY).

Price: $100.00

Publisher: (Leyde), Jacques Hackius: 1684

Seller ID: 9306

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair condition.

(1-2), title & verso; 3-(10), introduction and advertissemsnt; 1-624 pp.; 24mo; dark brown calf; 4 raised bands forming five compartments; spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Cover surface with cracking, bumped and rubbed at corner tips, with a thumb size spot rubbed through front cover; edges and prelims with soil, a splotch of ink, a doodle. Margin and leading edge of text torn out p. 639. Otherwise a solid copy. Text in French.

Instruction on the French language including grammar, letter writing, etiquette, etc.
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Dialectologia Mozarabe.

By: de Fuentes, Alvaro Galmes.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Madrid, Editorial Gredos: (1983)

Seller ID: 9926

ISBN: 842490916X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

TEXT IN SPANISH. 300pp.; printed self-wraps; folding map.

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Sobriquets and Nicknames.

By: Frey, Albert R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Company: 1888

Seller ID: 5311

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

482 pp.; 8vo; rebound in blue fabricoid, spine stamped in gilt.

Abdael to The Zuthpen Hero. Pages 369-482 is an index of True Names.
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Linguistics and Philology in Spanish America; a Survey (1925-1970. [Inscribed].

By: Malkiel, Yakov.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Hague-Paris, Mouton: 1972

Seller ID: 9912

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition

Inscribed by the author to Samuel G. Armistead: "a small attention in meager return for a generous gift." 179pp., incl. index of topics; blue wrappers with a touch of fading at extremites.

Yakov Malkiel (July 22, 1914 – April 24, 1998) was a U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. He was the founder of the journal Romance Philology. Samuel Gordon Armistead was a prominent American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian, lite...
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Metamorphoses, Our Farewell Issue.

By: Mancini, Felice, editor.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Redwood City, Summit: 1989

Seller ID: 4838

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

General interest magazine. 62 pp.; 4to; still in white mailing wrapper.

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A Dictionary of Cliches. With an Introductory Essay.

By: Partridge, Eric.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd.: 1962

Seller ID: 4839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good condtion in very good jacke, in protective mylar wrap

260 pp., 12mo; cloth in dust jacket. Spots of foxing to top edge; a few spots of light foxing to endpapers. In very good or better jacket with light wear at edges & light soil, Macmillan distribution sticker on jacket front.

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American Given Names. Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language.

By: Stewart, George R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Oxford University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 5197

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition in Fine jacket in mylar wrap

264 pp.; cloth in dust jacket. Moderate foxing to edges.

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Category: Language Arts & Disciplines