Dictionary Americanisms Glossary Words Phrases by Bartlett John Russell (80 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.

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Hardcover. Second Edition; First Reprinting. Book condition is Very Good; bound in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Some rubbing and edge wear to exterior. Light foxing at end pages. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo. 8 3/4"h x 5 3/4"w.

Condition: Good. Little Brown & Company, 1859. Cover lightly rubbed/bumpedsoiled, corners/edges/spine ends lightly bumped/chipped, top spine end quite chipped, several small tears on spine, ex-libris plate on front pastedown; corners lightly rubbed/bumped, spine ends lightly bumped; edges lightly rubbed/bumped/soiled/sunned, quite soiled at bottom of fore edges; interior faintly age-toned throughout, decorative paper on pastedowns/end papers, pencil marking on ffep, very light soiling on front pastedown; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean, except where noted. hardcover. Good.

Condition: New. pp. 865.

2d edition greatly improved and enlarged. xxxii, 524p., red buckram, ex libris.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth. Gold lettering on the spine. Pebbled texture stamped on the boards and spine. This copy has been professionally rebacked with original spine laid down on top of new brown cloth. New cloth visible only at the hinges. Some shelfwear to the original boards, but binding good and tight now, with new headbands. 524 pages. Text block good and tight. Bookplate with the name Charles Carpenter on the inside front cover. This is the second edition of Bartlett's famous reference book, much enlarged (and in many ways preferred) from the first edition. Small triangle of front free endpaper missing from inner edge; all else good. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second edition greatly improved and enlaeged, bound in the publisher's original brown cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Shelfwear to cloth at extremities, particularly at the head & heel. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown and presentation in ink on ffep.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Book has bumped corners, modest cover wear, despite imperfections still an attractive volume. Book.

First London issue, (the book appeared under the New York imprint only in 1848); lg. 8vo, [xxviii] & 412pp., bookplate on front pastedown, front hinge separated at joints, cracked at joints, chipped at extremities, paper label on spine rubbed and partially perished, with loss of half of lettering (the 12 shilling price remains); otherwise clean and reasonably bright in original blue cloth. Uncommon edition. Vancil, p. 20.

First edition, 8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 412; original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine; a few cracks to spine; hinges reinforced, preliminaries foxed, else very good and sound. Late 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ownership signature on title page. This popular and influential work went through four editions, the last in 1878, and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States (1815), which treated a mere 500 words, no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett, which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil, p. 20.

First edition, 8vo, expanded to small folio, xxvii, [1], 412; the whole interleaved in folio throughout; 20th-century quarter brown morocco over marbled boards; generally fine; judging from the soiling on the page edges, this copy was interleaved at an early date, much earlier than the relatively modern binding, but there are no annotations on the interleaves. This popular and influential work went through four editions, the last in 1878, and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States (1815), which treated a mere 500 words, no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett, which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil, p. 20.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Lghtly impressed decorations on covers and spine. Signed and inscribed by author in black ink on front free endpaper: "[.] Hon. A. B. Longstreet, with the compliments of John Russell Bartlett." 6" x 9." Pages [i]-xxvii, 1-412, complete. Appendix in back. A few leaves unopened. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Light rubbing and several small spots of dampstaining to the covers. Moderate chipping to head of spine and slight chipping to tail of spine. Slightly bumped corners. Pages are foxed. Inscription of Bartlett very clean and intact. A Very Good copy. An alphabetical glossary of Americanisms beginning with "A" and ending with "Y." Appendix in back includes additional words, also listed alphabetically. Bartlett describes the words in this book as unique to the United States and places emphasis on New England Americanisms and their provenance. He writes that many New England words and phrases are derived from those of England. Other regional words and phrases are also included such as those from the South. Bartlett defines each word or phrase, and for some, provides its origins and some examples of its usage. A sampling of the Americanisms in this book: "all-winsome" ("sweet, pleasant"), "Americanism" ("a way of speaking peculiarly to this country"), "catty-cornered" ("diagonally"), "gravy" ("used in New England instead of 'juice'"), "hoity-toity" ("an exclamation surprise or disaprobation, with some degree of contempt"), "latish" ("rather late"), "pollywog, or pollywig" ("a tadpole"), "sky-racket" ("the vulgar pronunciation of 'sky-rocket'"), "tit for tat" ("I shall treat you as you treat me"), and "yourn" ("contraction of 'your own'"). John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886) was an American linguist and historian. He is best-known for this work, A Dictionary of Americanisms. The individual to whom he presented this copy was Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870), an American lawyer, judge, minister, educator, and humorist. Longstreet is best-known for his book, Georgia Scenes. Inscribed by Author(s).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1848 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 449.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1848 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 457 John Russell Bartlett.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1848 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 460 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1848 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 450 Language: English Pages: 450.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1860 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 569.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1859 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 567.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1860 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 570 Language: English Pages: 570.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1877 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 891.