'A Proper Job, Mayet' (Isle of Wight): Jack Lavers’ Dictionary of Island Dialect. Additional material and foreword by Keith Newberry. P/b., 112pp.. A very nice bright and clean copy. Small crease to lower cover. First published in 198.. LAVERS, Jack with Keith Newberry. £10.00 Purchase
A Dictionary of South African English. New Enlarged Edition. xxxi+361pp.. Arranged in two columns. In original dust-wrapper. Used; Very Good This scholarly refe.. BRANFORD, Jean. £16.00 Purchase
A Dictionary of the Isle Wight Dialect: and of Provincialisms used in the Island; with illustrative anecdotes and tales; to which is appended the Christmas Boy's Play, an Isle of Wight "Hooam Harvest", and songs sung by the peasantry; forming a Treasury of Insular Manners and Customs of Fifty Years Ago. Original green cloth lettered gilt to spine and upper board, xii+170pp.. Generally very good, clean .. LONG, W. H. £60.00 Purchase
A Dictionary of the Underworld British & American. Third edition (much enlarged). Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggards and Tramps, Convicts, The Commercial Underworld, The Drug Traffic, The White Slave Traffic, Spivs. A good copy in original dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Tall quarto (c.20x25cm), xv+886pp.. Arranged .. PARTRIDGE, Eric. £20.00 Purchase
A Glossary of Words pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorkshire; with others peculiar to Lower Nidderdale by C. Clough Robinson. 1876. Bound with: A Glossary of Words used in Holderness in the East-Riding of by F. Ross, R. Stead, T. Holderness. 1877. Glossaries of Words used in Yorkshire and Holderness. English Dialect Society. Gilt rubbed from spine, leather scuffed at edges and corners, upper hinge tender but still strong. .. ROBINSON, C. Clough and ROSS, Frederick STEAD, Richard, HOLDERNESS, Thomas. £95.00 Purchase
A ordem das palavras no portugues arcaico (frases de verbo transitivo) [Text in Portuguese]. P/b., 211pp.. A good, clean, tight copy. Mild damp spotting to covers, internally very good. Long pu.. CANNAES, Maria da Piedade e PADUA, Mariz de £12.00 Purchase
An Elementary Middle English Grammar: Second Edition Small 8vo., hardback, usual maroon cloth, lettered gilt, xiii+226pp.. In very good condition. Clean.. Wright, Joseph and Wright, Elizabeth Mary £12.00 Purchase
British English A to Zed: 8vo.,xvi+477pp., index. In original unclipped dust-wrapper. A very nice copy, clean, bright and tigh.. SCHUR, Norman W.. £12.00 Purchase
British Phrasebook: (Lonely Planet Phrasebook). Small format paperback. Very good. This new language guide demysitifies the "mother tongue" for Engl.. Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker, Stephen Burger, et al. £3.50 Purchase
Bulgarische Grammatik: 2. vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Second enlarged and improved edition. Small 8vo., 12 x 18 cm., original red buckram-backed printed boards, vi+207[ii] pp.. Weigand, Germa.. WEIGAND, Prof. Dr. Gustav £45.00 Purchase
Changing English: Second Revised Edition. The Language Library. Edited by Eric Partridge and Simeon Potter. 8vo., brown boards, 206pp.. Original brown dust-wrapper uniform with others in the series. In good c.. POTTER, Simeon. £5.00 Purchase
Cockney Dialect and Slang. A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. 184pp.. Clean and tight. 9 diagrams and .. WRIGHT, Peter £10.00 Purchase
Dialectology. An Introduction. Linguistics Library. A very nice bright paperback copy, 256pp.. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good An introductory survey t.. Francis, W.N. £5.00 Purchase
Dictionary of Catch Phrases British and American from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day Complete edition, first published in 1977.A very nice bright hardback copy in original unclipped dus.. PARTRIDGE, Eric £12.00 Purchase
Dictionary of Contemporary Russian Slang A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper. 175pp.. Clean and tight. Original Russian edition.. UFO (pseud. Valery Nikolski). £25.00 Purchase