Americanisms, First Edition (54 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 2006. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition. 8vo, 223 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unpaginated near-square trade paperback, photo black/red covers. No spine creases. No names, clean text. With many b/w photos. Words: mossback, hula hoop, electrocute, crook, etc. 10554 shelf. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. NY: Walker & Co. (2006), Hard Cover w/ DJ. New and Completely Updated. First US Edition (stated with complete number line). 8vo, 418pp (Including Index). Black board covers with red titles are clean and solid, with sharp edges and corners. Pages are clean, no names or markings, not Ex-Library. Unclipped DJ ($24.95) is clean and sharp, with lightly worn on edges. The jacket is lightly rubbed and protected in archival mylar jacket. Book and DJ condition: VG. Books are carefully packaged and quickly shipped in a box.

Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Aufl. IX, 406 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. Ein sehr gutes Exemplar. - Is Ahab, Ahab? -- A Monstrous Reader -- Natura non facit saltus: Classical Physics and the Reign of Continuity -- The Uninterrupted Succession of Events: Causality and the Philosophy of Determinism -- A Homogeneous Space of Knowledge: Colonizing the Local -- Representing the Real -- The World a Machine: Disenchantment and Domination -- The Age of Machinery: Nineteenth-Century Reflections -- Truth Without Confines: Ahab's Newtonian Logics -- Wonderful Prescience of Experience: The Empirical Basis of Ahab's World Picture -- The Newtonian Order of Ahab's Cosmos -- Well Nigh as Reliable as the Steadfast Land: The Sea Solidified -- An Unavoidable, Straight Wake: The Teleological Whale -- Khan of the Plank, King of the Sea: A Utilitarian Scientist -- No Mere Machine of an Automaton: Ahab's Machinicity -- Subverting the Metaphysics of Continuity: Moby-Dick's Cetological Center -- The Classical Dimensions of Natural History -- Discovering the Essence of Things -- The Nomination of the Visible -- The Continuous Tabulation of Difference -- Versions of Continuity: Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier -- The Classification of the Constituents of a Chaos: Cetology and Classical Natural History -- Ripping the Taxonomic Surface: The Failure of Classification The Failure of Nomenclature -- Discontinuity and the Failure of Classical Description -- Bohr's Principle of Complementarity -- A Dead, Blind Wall, Pleated with Riddles: Un-Reading the -- Whale -- Visualizing Atomic Phenomena, Visualizing the Whale: The -- Discontinuity of Object and Representation -- Complementary Taxonomies: Cetology Revisited -- Cetology as Revolution -- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Gifted With the High Perception: Ahab's Visual Scheme -- A Little Lower Layer: Ahab's and Ishmael's Differing -- Schemes of Perception -- Cetology as Revolution: Ishmael's Perception of Anomaly -- The Whiteness of the Whale -- An Impalpable, Malicious Agency -- Colorless All-Color. ISBN 9783825354879 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 576 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. Spine bottom slightly worn; nick in rear cover.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. (1st) Small book, smooth cream cloth with dozens of embossed gilt torches on front with gilt title and author with design near fine, spine browned, gilt lettering very good on spine, covers browned especially spine with tiny smudging at bottom front right. Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Impression. Red cover with bright gilt lettering shows some shelf wear but no fraying. Gift presentaton inside front cover. Dust jacket flap info laid in. 1946p. Large heavy book. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: New. Editor(s): Draxlbauer, Michael; Fellner, Astrid M. Series: American Studies in Austria. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 549. . 2005. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very Light Edgewear. Light Wear. Book Lightly Cocked. Name, Date & Initials Inked Along Top Edge Of Front Endpage. Dark Green Covers Wit Gilt Lettering & Decor On Front Cover & Spine.

xvi, 976 pp; 1 leaf, pp. 977-1946. Original cloth. Cloth rubbed at top & bottom of spine, and along joints. Bottom edge of front cover bumped in volume I. Vertical crease in half-title leaf in volume I. Small amount of pencilling in Preface to volume I. Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. The original, unabridged, two volume, clothbound edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding. 3 3/4" x 6." 190 pages, complete. A couple pages of advertisements in back for essays in Harper's American Essayists series. Gilt decorations and lettering on front cover and spine. Newspaper article, "The 'New' Woman and Divorce," tipped in on back pastedown. Pages are clean; binding is tight. A very clean copy.

88 pages with a lot of illustrations. In good condition. On the titlepage: Katharina Koller of Switzerland os one of the glamorous young ladies who adorn the ski slopes this season in Europe. Further stories: 'Bobby' Kennedy on the go: the President's brother makes a whirlwind around the world, New day for an old cubist: Archipenko has a comeback. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 900 Colourillustrated OBrosch. Gr.4to. (Format: 36 x 27 cm).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition; Second Printing. One Volume Edition; DJ shows chips, tears, and fading. It still holds together well and is included. Book is in great condition for the year. Pages have yellowed. Most wear is light, and there are no noteworthy blemishes. No writing. ; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Condition: New. 2018. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; 990 clean, unmarked pages; lite foxing of end papers; black cloth w/gilt titles; some shelf rubbing; ownr's name; Will not fit in priority envelope.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. ex-library 4to. Book.

. 15,5 cm. 4 h., 190 pág., 1 h. Enc. en tela edit. estampada. Primera edición.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. a very nice 2 volume set from the firs printing .

Full Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Binding is tight with rounded corners and one-inch split on spine at top rear. End papers are missing. There is some student writing on the inside cover. 444 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. Scarce SIGNED edition. Ex-library with the usual labeling. General shelf/age wear. Pages clean.

Hardcover. Exhibition Companion. Small Quarto, unpaginated. In Good Condition. Fully bound in publishers grey cloth. Spine grey with faded black lettering. Mild shelfwear and soiling. Staining to back panel. Tail corner of front board bumped. Spine slightly cocked. Inscribed by Ruscha on front end paper. Shelved case 11. 1381061. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition, 4to, 2 vols.; pp. xvi, 1946 continuous pages, text in double column, illus. in text; good and sound in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, though worn at extremities and a little shaken. "The first dictionary to deal exclusively with those words and meanings of words which have come into the English language in the United States" (jacket blurb).

Cloth. First edition. xvi, 1946. Sm. 4to. An important work. Good+ exlib copies with the usual markings, boards rubbed, leaves clean and unmarked. No dust jackets.

Two vols. 8vo. vi, [2], 565, [1]; [4], [567]-990, [2], vi pp. Blue embssd cloth, gilt lettrng on spines (vry mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), VG set. First edition of this scarce and interesting reference work on American dialect, replete with contemporary examples, written and organized by the founder of the University of Oregon Law School.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First American Edition. Two volumes, complete. John Weik, 1857; no later printings indicated. Full calf, with black leather labels. Front hinge of volume 2 is cracked, front board is detached loose. Hinges on volume 1 loosening but otherwise intact. Boards are worn at edges. Closed tears to Vol. 2 end pages, else both volumes' page blocks remain sturdy and fully intact; moderate amount of foxing throughout both volumes, though more extensive in volume 1. Grieb was a Christian Socialist who inspired the utopian thinker Charles Fourier. In Paris of the '30s - in the crucible of new, even utopian ideas; between thousands of political refugees - was enthusiastic about the ideas of early Grieb socialist Charles Fourier. While in London, Grieb developed a new German-English dictionary, because he knew that English would be the language of the future. He attached special importance to including scientific terms and technical developments in 19th Century Europe. Due to the size/weight of this offer extra charges to apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. *Extra postage may apply.* Two volumes, complete. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with black dust wrapper. Gilt lettering on spine of book. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4." Volume I: 976 pages, complete. Volume II: Pages 977-1946, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrappers are very clean and intact. Dust wrappers have no chipping but are very lightly worn at the extremities. Dust wrappers are not price-clipped. No remainder marks. Two Fine books in Fine dust wrappers. Printed on front panel of Volume I's dust wrapper: "The first dictionary to deal exclusively with those words and meanings of words which have come into the English language in the United States." Printed on front panel of Volume II's dust wrapper: "Through dated quotations from a wide variety of sources, the 50,000 entries in this dictionary trace the history of America's contributions to the English language from the coming of the first colonists to the present." Volume I covers Americanisms from "A-Lincolnism." Volume II covers Americanisms from "Lincolnite-Zwieback.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mitford M. Mathews. A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles. The University of Chicago Press 1951. First edition. Two large folio-size volumes in very good condition. xvi+1946 pages Slight wear on blue cloth boards, spine gilt faded. Ex-library, but a reference library, with bookplate on verso of front boards and "withdrawn stamps on title pages and versos of rear boards. Extra shipping costs for the two substantial tomes.