Avis Walter S Editor (6 results)
- Softcover
Seller: Karen Wickliff - Books, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.Karen Wickliff - Books
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 264pp. mass market paperback, VG, slight reading crease to spine, spine faded, slight water stain on spine, two corner tips slightly bumped and creased, Anthology of Sam Slick, Yankee clock peddler, traveling through Nova Scotia and Great Britain commenting on what he saw with humor,…wit and an acid tongue, selected excerpts from eleven books in the series.
Language: English
Published by W.J. Gage, Toronto, 1967
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaSellers & Newel Second-Hand Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first printing/. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In fine, clear acetate dust jacket. An extensive collection of words and expressions used in Canada over the preceding 400 years.
Language: English
Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto, 1986
- Hardcover
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.G.J. Askins Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1590 page hardcover dictionary for Canadian. 158,000 entries with 200,000 definitions, plus Canadian college and university lists and government charters and laws. Clearly geared for Canadians. Dust jacket is bright, crisp and clean. Black board exterior with tit…le on spine in gold. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
A DICTIONARY OF CANADIANISMS ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES Produced By the Lexicographical Centre for Canadian English, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Avis, Walter S. Editor in Chief; Crate, Charles; Drysdale, Patrick; Leechman, Douglas; Scargill, Matthew H.; Lovell, Charles J.
Published by W.J. Gage Limited, Toronto, 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, CanadaJ. W. Mah
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine in Near Fine clear acetate dust jacket with a 1/2" tear to edge near the spine head in Good only slipcase with edges rubbed. Red cloth, xxiv, 927pp, [8] blank pages for Reader's Notes. Small line drawings. "That part of Canadian English whi…ch is neiher British nor American is best illustrated by the vocabulary, for there are hundreds of words which are native to Canada or which have meanings peculiar to Canada". Pink tea: a social gathering attended chiefly by women. Mudpup: a young Englishman sent out to Western Canada to learn farming. Mukluk: a warm knee-high boot worn by the Inuit and Aboriginals of the Northest Territries and the Yukon. Muskeg: an organic bog which is brown or black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth. Stook: a structure of grain sheaves, sometimes set up end to end in five or six pairs, (a long stook) sometimes in a circle (a round stook). (4.2 JM HQ 103/5 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Galt, Jean; Guest, Mary (illustrator).
Published by W. J. Gage Limited, Canada, 1967
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Old Goat Books, Waterloo, ON, CanadaOld Goat Books
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Jacket Condition: 'Near Fine' Condition: 'Near Fine' Notes: Red cloth boards in a near fine, clear acetate dust jacket. Binding is square and solid. Slight smudge to bottom, outer edge of text block, otherwise pages are unmarked, clean, and n…ot bent.
Published by W. J. Gage Limited, Toronto
- Hardcover
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaBurton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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1967. (Hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 927pp. In the vinyl dust jacket and in the publisher's slipcase. Illustrations, bibliography. The slipcase has some wear at the edges and has some peeling at the back. Series: Dictionary of Canadian English. (Dictionary, Dictionary, Language).
