Neilson, William Allan; Knott, Thomas a ; Carhart, Paul W (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, solid condition. No markings inside. Tan cloth cover with bright gold lettering on front and spine. Cover is lightly rubbed along edges and corners. Page introducing Noah Webster and title page show creasing.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. Extremely large, heavy volume reprinted 1947 based on the 1934 edition. Stamping of former owner on first blank page and two subsequent pages. Title pqge and a few other pages wrinkled. Overall, moderate wear. NOTE: THIS BOOK IS TOO HEAVY TO SHIP OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

Cloth. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. beige cloth, edgewear, red ribbon, marbled edges, 3210 pgs., tab indexed; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Used, acceptable. This is the preferred (second) edition published by the C&G Merriam Co. Heavy duty tan cloth cover with a black leather title band and a brown leather title band on spine, standard (not thin) paper, 6" thick, thumb tabs, 1945 copyright, 1949 print date, 3210pp. Overall condition - still functional but quite worn, front and back covers taped to spine with heavy duty black fabric tape, binding split near front of book could be repaired with strong tape, a few pages worn or creased but none missing or ripped, no marks or writing. Functions fine if laid open on a flat surface as intended. **VERY HEAVY, OVERSIZE - priority mail and overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Condition: Used - Acceptable. 1942. Hardcover. Decorated leather. 4to. 3210 pp & 360 pp. Some shelfwear and scuffing to boards. Severe tears to upper joints. Corners slightly bumped. Previous owner's inscription to rear of ffep. Title page badly damaged. Binding fragile but intact, ut with some pages loose and damaged. Sound working copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Unabridged Edition. Boards are shelf rubbed, but remains neat. Binding is secure. Ink inscription from previous owner on the front paste down and end pages. Small stamp on the front end page. old cello tape markings on the paste downs. One page is ripped out in the front, and the title page is halfway torn out. Rest of the pages are neat with no other inscriptions or annotations. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Condition: Used, good. Good+ condition. This is the most desireable (second) editon of the Merriam Webster unabridged dictionary, bound in dark brown leather, red marbled endpapers, printed on India (very thin) paper which reduces its thickness by half to around 3 inches, 3194pp. This is the 1953 version, printed in 1954, Only "good plus" condition due to heavy wear at the top of spine and rubbing mostly on edges of spine, binding very slightly split at page xxxi but not loose, a few of the first India paper pages are wrinkled (as is common), the page with Webster's biography is torn. Gold lettering on spine and front cover is clear and bright, all thumb tab labels are present, clean and with no marks or writing. Overall a fully functional copy with a couple of defects. Excellent for everyday use. **OVERSIZE - priority mail and overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Very Good Minus. Rich brown faux leather cover with bright gold lettering on spine and front cover, 2nd edition, 1954 copyright, 1955 printing, published by G&C Merriam, 3194pp of text plus "Reference History" section, very thin India paper edition (so book is 3.5" thick rather than 6"). CONDITION:Cover has light wear on edges, just a little worn through on tips of corners; a little writing in pen on first blank page; a few creased pages at start of book as is usual for India paper editions; page edges a little worn, all thumb tab labels present. Overall a little worn but nice condition. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. 2nd. This is the very desirable 2nd edition of the G. C. Meriam Company unabridged Webster's dictionary, this version of the dictionary is in 3 volumes, published in 1954, printed in 1957, bound in dark red leather-like cloth with bright gold lettering on the spine and front cover, 3194pp + "Reference History of the United States and Canada" (146pp) + "Index to Classified Illustrations" (105pp). CONDITION: Overall very nice (VG+). Cover has slight loss of color on the corners and edges due to general wear and a few very minor surface scratches; there is a name/address written inside the front cover of volume 1 otherwise the interiors are clean and unmarked; no thumb tabs are missing; each volume has a very slight binding split - volume 1 after the copyright page, volume 2 at page 1055, and volume 3 at the first blank page at the end of the book - these are very minor and do not affect using the book. SELLER: We are a small family business selling fine new and pre-owned books online since 1999, providing professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments and sturdy packaging. OVERSIZE - priority and overseas orders require additional shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Sm. folio. Tan cl., gilt lettering and logo on blind-stamped front cover, backstr. gilt lettering on tan with blind-stamped lines and lightly raised bars. Edges v. v. sl. rubbed on backstr. and at corners. Marbled edges. Thumb indexed. Color rrontis. Prof. illus. Cxxxvi, 3194pp., triple columns including Abbreviations (6 columns), Arbitrary Signs and Symbols (2 columns), Forms of Address (3 columns), Pronouncing Gazetteer (2 columns) and Pronouncing Biographial Dictionary (2 columns). A few forematter pp. sl. creased. NICE COPY OF THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME DICTIONARY. Heavy book: 9 1/2 lbs., will require extra shipping charges and no international or priority mail, sorry. Cover VG-. Contents VG+ %.

hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Gorgeous rich brown full leather cover with bright gold lettering on spine and front cover, 2nd edition, 1953 copyright date and print date, red marbled endpapers, published by G&C Merriam, edited by Neilson, Knott and Carhart, 3194pp, very thin India paper edition (so book is 3.5" thick rather than 6"), insruction sheet that came with the dictionary "How to care for your Unabridged Merriam-Webster" is taped to the second (blank) page. CONDITION: Book cover is just about like new with the slightest (barely visible) scuffing, first 25 India paper pages are wrinkled (as is often the case with this very thin paper) resulting in 1/4" or so of the edge of these pages sticking out beyond the rest of the pages and getting a little ragged from wear, "J" thumb tab label partly missing. No marks or writing. Very beautiful cover, nice condition. **OVERSIZE - priority mail and overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. Second edition,1945 copyright, 1946 printing. Bound in medium brown heavy duty cloth, gold lettering on spine and front cover, brown endpapers, 3210pp, India paper edition so book is 3 1/2 inches thick rather than 6". CONDITION: Cover has rubbing mainly on the back cover, name on front free endpaper else no marks or writing, a couple of slightly creased pages, pages have slight warp (don't quite lie flat when book is opened), no missing thumb tabs, very faintly musty **OVERSIZE - priority mail and overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

2d ed., unabridged. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked decorative cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 3210 pages; Description: xcii p. , 1 l. , xciii-civ, 3210 p. Col. Front. , illus. , plates (part col. ) ports. , maps, diagrs. 31 cm. Subjects: English language --Dictionaries. An entirely new book utilizing all the experience and resources of more than one hundred years of genuine Webster dictionaries. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. 2nd. Very good condition. This is the preferred second edition; standard (not India) paper, 1934 copyright, 1945 New Words section, 1946 print date. Heavy duty tan cloth cover with gold lettering, two leather title bands on spine one brown and one black; 3210 pages, marbled page edges, thumb tabs. Very fat and heavy. CONDITION: Cover has slight loss of color on edges, no fraying; about 20% of title bands are worn away; half of one thumb tab is missing; part of the marbling on lower page edges is worn away, a half inch of the lower right tip of about 50 pages is creased and worn, no marks or writing. Overall nice condition. **OVERSIZE - overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 25 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. Very Good Minus condition. This is the highly desirable second edition, bound in dark tan cloth, with gold lettering and design on spine and front cover, India paper (very thin but strong pages), brown endpapers, 1959 copyright 1960 print date, 3194pp. CONDITION: Cover clean, gold is clear and bright, cloth on tips of outer corners just barely worn through and a little frayed at top and bottom of spine; a little loss of color on edges of spine; back panel has a few surface scratches. Interior clean and unmarked, page with Webster's biography has a couple of small tears, title page has 2" tear and lower edges somewhat ragged, otherwise the pages are like new. Overall rather nice condition. **HEAVY/OVERSIZE. ** We are a small family business selling fine new and pre-owned books online since 1999. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. This is the very desirable second edition published by the G&C Merriam Company, 1950 version, 1950 printing, heavy duty tan cloth cover with two leather title bands one black and one brown, standard paper (not very thin "India" paper, gold lettering, marbled design on page edges, 3214 pages, almost 6" thick. CONDITION:This massive book has stood up well to years of use and has only a few minor wear-related imperfections, a sound binding, and no marks or writing. The cloth cover has overall light surface wear and is very slightly soiled by use but is not worn through and has no fraying; the upper title band is a little worn mainly on the edges, the outer inch of the edges of the lower title band are worn away but almost all of the gold lettering is present; thumb tabs are all present; a few pages have been slightly creased, causing one edge to stick out 1/16" or so beyond the other pages and get a little worn. No pages are torn or missing. Nice, strong, very serviceable. HEAVY/OVERSIZE - overseas shipping and priority mail will require addition postage. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. This is the very desirable second edition published by the G&C Merriam Company, 1950 version, 1950 printing, olive green cloth cover with gold lettering on spine and front cover, India paper, 3210 pages. CONDITION: Cover is clean, gold lettering bright, cloth cover slightly worn through on tips of corners, no thumbtab labels are missing, binding is tight, no marks or writing, bookplate inside the front cover, no large creases on any pages which is unusual in Websters with India paper because the paper is so thin the pages at the start of the book tend to get creased. Overall nice condition. HEAVY/OVERSIZE. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

2d ed., unabridged. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked decorative cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 3210 pages; Description: xcii p. , 1 l. , xciii-civ, 3210 p. Col. Front. , illus. , plates (part col. ) ports. , maps, diagrs. 31 cm. Subjects: English language --Dictionaries. An entirely new book utilizing all the experience and resources of more than one hundred years of genuine Webster dictionaries. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. This is the highly desirable second edition in the dark brown faux leather cover with thin "India" paper so book is only 3" thick rather than 6" thick with standard paper, 1954 copyright, 1955 printing, 3194pp + "A Reference History of the United States and Canada." (146pp) + "Classified Pictorial Illustrations." (105pp). Overall condition - a little worn, sound binding, a little writing at front of book else clean. Cloth cover is just a little worn through on tips of outer corners, edges have a little loss of color due to rubbing. Binding is tight and square, no thumb tab labels are missing, name/address/date on front free endpaper, a little writing on first white page else interior clean and unmarked. A few pages have worn edges due to being folded with the result that a little of an edge stuck out beyond the other pages so received wear; no pages missing or torn. A fully functional, very serviceable copy. **OVERSIZE - priority mail and overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Edited by Neilson, Knott, and Carhart. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine stamped in black and gilt, cover stamped in gilt. All edges marbled. Illustrated with color frontispiece of Webster, colored flag reproductions, and black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Charming blue and white striped dust jacket. Book is fine except for very minor rubbing to extremities and head of spine. Dust jacket has wear to extremities and chipping to heel of spine. A very large book. 1945 copyright, 1949 print date. 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches. 3210 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. Very nice condition. Second edition, G&G Merriam Company, copyright 1954, 1955 printing, bound in in the usual heavy duty tan cloth with gold lettering and design on spine and front cover, marbled page edges, 3194pp. CONDITION: Cover just about like new--slightest (barely visible) rubbing on edges, back cover has a couple of minor spots, Noah Webster biography page is wrinkled. No marks or writing. **OVERSIZE - overseas shipping and priority require additional postage. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Leather Bound. Condition: Used, very good. Almost like new. Second edition of the Webster's unabridged dictionary published by the G & C Merriam Company in 1945, printed in 1949, bound in very attractive dark brown leather with bright gold lettering, gorgeous marbled endpapers, printed on thin "India" paper so the book is only 3 1/2" thick rather than the usual 6 inches, 3210pp; laid in pamphlet that originally came with the dictionary "The Merriam-Webster What it will do for you" 16pp and a newspaper clipping from 1965 about this dictionary and some tips for using it. CONDITION: Almost like new. Cover has very slight loss of color on outer edges and lower edges else like new, "Flag" pages have very minor dampstain (barely noticeble) on outer edges, most pages have very slight rippling along the upper edge, page 1281 has lived its life very slightly creased so its lower edge sticks out about 1/16" and is a little worn, all thumb tab labels are present, clean, no marks or writing. Very nice. OVERSIZE: Priority and overseas orders may require additional shipping. SELLER: We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. As close to like new as is likely to be found. This is the highly desirable second edition, bound in original heavy duty tan cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, marbled page edges, 1959 copyright, 1961 print date, 3194pp. CONDITION: Cover is like new, strong binding, page edges have slightest loss of color due to use, title page a little creased otherwise interior is like new. **HEAVY/OVERSIZE. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. Almost like new. This is the desirable second edition published by G & C Merriam, 1945 version (1934 copyright, 1945 New Words section) printed in 1947, heavy tan cloth cover with two leather title bands on spine one dark red and one black, gold lettering on spine and front cover, marbled page edges, brown endpapers, 3210pp. CONDITION: Cover has slight surface wear but cloth is not frayed or worn through, title bands a little rubbed, gold lettering bright and clear; binding tight and square, no thumb tabs missing, no marks or writing. Unusually nice condition. **OVERSIZE - priority mail and overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Leather Bound. Condition: Used, very good. Almost like new! This is the preferred (second) edition; gorgeous dark brown real leather cover (not imitation leather), thin (India) paper so book is only 3" thick rather than more than 6" thick with standard paper, red and gold marbled endpapers, thumb tabs, 1934 copyright, 1939 print date. CONDITION: Cover has very slight surface wear consisting of a few very minor scratches, a little rubbing on corners (leather just barely worn through on the tip of one outer corner), spine very slightly lightened by sunlight but all gold lettering on spine and front cover is clear and bright. Binding is tight and square. No marks or writing, all tumb tabs present, original tissue present between flag pages at front of book, no torn or damages pages, very small smudge at lower edge of title page. Unusually nice condition. **OVERSIZE - priority mail and overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We are a small family business with over 30 years experience providing fine new and pre-owned books online. You can expect professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectable, very good. Very Good Plus condition. Personalized presentation signed by George Gallan, president of the G. & C. Merriam Company, on the first blank heavy stock page. Massive one-volume edition, tan cloth cover with gold lettering and design, 1953, no additional printings, regular (not India) paper, 3194pp. Very slight exterior wear, no marks or writing (other than inscription), first few pages a little wrinkled. HEAVY/OVERSIZE. ** We are a small family business selling fine new and pre-owned books online since 1999. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

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