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Price: $45.00
Publisher: Derby & Jackson: 1857
Seller ID: 21161
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
473 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, olive green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine, pale yellow endpapers, [vi] + 473 + 2 pages, rag (cotton fiber) paper throughout. ; Copyright page 1856. Title page 1857. ; Set in New England in 1600s, starring gallant rogue who titles himself Knight of the Golden Melice (honeybee) defending Native Americans against self-righteous Puritans; a popular novel in mid-1800s. ; Cloth worn at tips. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. Gilt on spine worn but just readable. Front free endpaper missing. Binding intact. (Amazonbuyers please note: This i... View more info
By: Aeschylus, with E. D. A. Morshead and Rex Warner; Illustrated by Michael Ayrton
Price: $21.00
Publisher: Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 20363
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
177 pages; 4to (11.25") 29 cm; Tall hardcover, dark green morocco leather, [xxx] + 177 pages, gilt lettering and decor, all edges gilt, green moire satin cloth endpapers, endnotes, yellow page-marker ribbon, 10 full-page b/w illustrations, color portrait frontispiece illustration of Aeschylus. ; Translated by E. D. A. Morshead. Introduction by Rex Warner. ; Three great tragic plays of antiquity, a trilogy concerning Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Gods of the Greek Pantheon, murder and justice. ; Endpapers tanned around edges. No other defects. No jacket, as issued. ; 100 Greatest Books Ever ... View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1990
Seller ID: 3963
ISBN: 0916500314
Condition: Near Fine
160 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, glossy covers. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Open letter to Janet Reno from editor (out of prison). Papua New Guinea. African folklore. Bigot '-ists'. Comedian responses to hecklers. Bowdlerization of Faulkner. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; No defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1978
Seller ID: 3956
ISBN: 0916500527
Condition: Near Fine
304 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Graffiti. Gay terminology. Medical pejoratives. Czech. Italian. Thai. Cockney. Swearing in football. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; No defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1981
Seller ID: 3960
ISBN: 091650025X
Condition: Near Fine
352 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Chinese. Tonga. French. Farsi. Dutch. Menomini (Native American) terms. Prison slang. Genital pet names. College sexual slang. Ethnic acronyms. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; Tiny spot on fore-edge, otherwise no defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1982
Seller ID: 3961
ISBN: 0916500268
Condition: Near Fine
320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 320 pages, scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. ; Topics include: Canadian. Australian. Argentinian. Greek. Italian. Japanese. Farsi. Polish. German. Lesbian terminology. License plate taboos. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. Compled 1982, published July 1983.; One leaf creased at corner, otherwise no defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1990
Seller ID: 3962
ISBN: 0916500306
Condition: Near Fine
320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 320 pages, scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. ; Topics include: Anti-religious graffiti. Medical slang. Swahili. Arabic. Ulster. Georgia (the country). Breast pet names. Rock band names. Sick jokes about Challenger. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1987
Seller ID: 20180
ISBN: 0916500292
Condition: Near Fine
320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover with top quality binding, 320 pages, a few b/w illustrations. ; Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Wimp. Graffiti. Cunnilingus. American ethnic slurs. Medical group nouns. Chernobyl jokes. Gay jokes. Gerbil jokes. Thomas Crapper. Interview with Lillian Mermin Feinsilver. More. ; Issn 0363-3659. Edited by German-American philologist, world scholar of dirty words, the great Reinhold Aman, PhD. ; Spine very slightly faded. No other defects. ; Maledicta Press Publications Series; Vol. 9 View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1977
Seller ID: 3954
Condition: Near Fine
108 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Stiff orange softcover. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Cuban Spanish. Yiddish. Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama in England. Game of stink-pink. Skopje dialect of Macedonia. Plus departments, other articles. ; ISSN 0363-3659. Copyright 1977. No additional printings listed. ; Only a touch of shelfwear. No other defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1978
Seller ID: 3955
Condition: Near Fine
8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Stiff orange softcover. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Pages 109-328. Topics include: Gershon Legman. Children's jokes. Xenophobia. Black American nicknames. Literary graffiti. F-U and other curses. Plus departments, other articles. ; Isbn 0916500519. Issn 0363-3659. ; Slight bump to upper tip, otherwise no defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1979
Seller ID: 3957
ISBN: 0916500489
Condition: Near Fine
304 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Stiff orange softcover. 304 pages. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Gay terminology. Black Arts movement. Insults in Irish, Yoruba, Arabic, Spanish, Greek, English, Russian, Swiss German. Portuguese nicknames. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; No defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1979
Seller ID: 20221
Condition: Near Fine
172 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 172 pages numbered 145-316. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Interlingual taboo words. Insults and ethnic slurs in US English, Canadian English, Russian, etc. Gay terminology. Swiss swearwords. Adacemic graffiti. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. This is Number 2 only of a volume that had 2 numbers. ; No defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1983
Seller ID: 20222
Condition: Near Fine
320 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, 320 pages, scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. ; Topics include: Peter Tamony interview and articles. Dietary stereotypes and slurs. Poonerisms. Offensive medical slag. Graffiti proverbs. Italian and Catalan insults. Dictionary definitions of smegma. Many more. Plus departments, etc. ; Issn 0363-3659.; Textblock very slightly bowed. No other defects. View more info
By: Aman, Reinhold
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Maledicta Press: 1996
Seller ID: 20213
ISBN: 0916500322
Condition: Near Fine
160 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Orange softcover, glossy covers, 160 pages. Scholarly articles on 'offensive' and 'derogatory' language. Topics include: Open letter to Janet Reno from editor (out of prison). Papua New Guinea. African folklore. Bigot '-ists'. Comedian responses to hecklers. Bowdlerization of Faulkner. Plus departments, other articles. ; Issn 0363-3659. ; No defects. View more info
By: Anderson, Poul
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17255
ISBN: 0312874499
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
304 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Hardcover, 304 pages. ; 1st edition, full number line. ; No defects to book or jacket. View more info
By: Aristophanes, with Dudley Fitts; Illustrated by Marian Parry
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 20352
Condition: Near Fine
144 pages; 4to (11.5") 30 cm; Tall hardcover, dark green leather, gilt lettering and decor, [xii] + 52 + [xviii] + 62 pages, 144 total pages, all edges gilt, green moire cloth endpapers, page-marker ribbon, dozens of b/w and color illustrations. ; Contents: 1) The Birds, by Aristophanes, with introduction by Dudley Fitts, illustrated by Marian Parry. 2) The Frogs, by Aristophanes, translated by William James Hickie, with introduction by Gilbert Seldes, illustrated by John Austen. ; Two classic plays of antiquity. ; Endpapers tanned around edges. Ribbon tanned at tip. Original publisher's b... View more info
By: Avenarius, Ferdinand, with Hans Bohm
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Verlag Georg D. W. Callwey: 1937
Seller ID: 20159
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
320 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; German text throughout, in old Fraktur script. Hardcover, gray cloth, green lettering and decor, 320 pages, 3 indexes, 72 b/w illustrations, about 200 ballads and narrative poems by famous German poets of the past 300 years. ; Originally published 1929. This edition, with new introduction by Hans Böhm, 1937.; Spine very slightly sunned. No other defects. No jacket. View more info
By: Ball, Alice E. ; Illustrated by Robert Bruce Horsfall
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Gibbs & Van Vleck: 1917
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20120
Condition: Near Fine in Poor dust jacket
191 pages; 8vo (9.75") 25 cm; Hardcover, green cloth, gold spine title, 191 text pages + 56 full-color illustrations on glossy plates printed one side only. ; Text copyright 1916. This is 1st edition, 1917. ; Enchanting poetry descriptive of birds and bird life of North America, accompanied by high quality realistic original paintings showing birds in their natural habitats. Poems by Alice E. Ball and other famous poets. ; Minor shelfwear only. Jacket is mostly gone but blurbs are taped to rear endpaper. Scarce. Sold as is. View more info
By: Balzac, Honore de, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Roberts Brothers: 1888
Seller ID: 11550
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcovers. English throughout. Uniform bindings. Dark red russia leather over spines, dark red marbled boards, gray marbled endpapers, gilt titles and ornaments on spines, top edges red, about 300-550 pages per vol, many also with 8-16 pg publisher catalog in rear. Several short stories and other works are also included to round out various vols. Vols 10, 12, 14, introduction by George Frederic Parsons. ; Vols are: 1. Pierre Goriot, 1888. 2. Duchesse de Langeais, 1888. 3. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, 1886. 4. Eugenie Grandet, 1888. 5. Cousin Pons, 1886. 6. Country D... View more info
By: Barclay, Florence L. ; Illustrated by F. H. Townsend
Price: $11.00
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14805
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
426 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, purple cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine, blindstamped decor, 426 pages + 6-pg publisher catalog in rear, lovely full-color glossy frontispiece illustration by F. H. Townsend. ; Same date. NAP. A m a z o n b u y e r s please note: image matches this edition, but this edition is a true first by G. P. Putnam's Sons, NOT a reprint by Grosset & Dunlap. ; Charming love story set in the small village of Bramble Dene, England; the three sections of the novel are entitled Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. ; Extremely light shelfwear visible at heel and ... View more info