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LAVERS, Jack with Keith Newberry.

'A Proper Job, Mayet' (Isle of Wight): Jack Lavers’ Dictionary of Island Dialect. Additional material and foreword by Keith Newberry.

P/b., 112pp.. Small crease to lower cover. A very nice bright and clean copy. First published in 198..

£15.00

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LINTERN, Jessie

15 Readers. (1.: Billy's Bike, 2: Jenny's Bike, etc.. ) A Leighway Story.

Paperbacks in colour printed card covers. Pen mark to upper cover of vol. one else near new. Used; L..

£12.00

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PARTRIDGE, Eric.

A Dictionary of Clichés. With an Introductory Essay. Third Edition Revised.

A very nice, clean tight copy. Small 8vo., 260pp. Dust wrapper chipped and a little discoloured, mar..

£8.00

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BRANFORD, Jean.

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..

£16.00

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LONG, W. H.

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 ..

£60.00

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PARTRIDGE, Eric.

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 ..

£20.00

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MOSSE, Fernand, Trans. by James A.Walker. MOSSÉ

A Handbook of Middle English.

1961 reprint of 1952 edition. A nice hardback copy in original green cloth with light signs of wear ..

£10.00

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MOSSE, Fernand, Trans. by James A.Walker. MOSSÉ

A Handbook of Middle English. Seventh printing.

Hardback in original green cloth The author's mastery of the material and talent for clear and orde..

£10.00

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BAUGH, Albert C..

A History of the English Language. Second Edition (revised). Reprint.

xiii[v]+506pp., illustrations, maps, appendices. In original red dust-wrapper. A very nice bright ha..

£8.00

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WYLD, Henry Cecil.

A Short History of English: With a bibliography and lists of texts and editions. Third edition revised and enlarged. Reprint.

viii+294pp.. An very good clean, tight copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Dust-wrapper age-bro..

£8.00

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Bright, James W.

An Outline of Anglo-Saxon Grammar Published as an appendix to " An Anglo-Saxon Reader "

Reprint. Original brown cloth, boards marked, paper browned and marked in places. Signs of use and a..

£6.00

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RODRIGUES, Louis J.

Anglo-Saxon Verse Runes:

P/., 152 pp.. Illustrated As new, appears unused. Clean, tight and bright. Deals with runic verse in..

£6.00

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SCHUR, Norman W..

British English A to Zed:

8vo.,xvi+477pp., index. In original unclipped dust-wrapper. A very nice copy, clean, bright and tigh..

£12.00

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Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker, Stephen Burger, et al.

British Phrasebook: (Lonely Planet Phrasebook).

Small format paperback. Very good. This new language guide demysitifies the "mother tongue" for Engl..

£3.50

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WRIGHT, Peter

Cockney Dialect and Slang.

A very nice bright copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. 184pp.. Clean and tight. 9 diagrams and ..

£10.00

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