Geist Robert J (10 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good. First page has a name.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. Wraps are scuffed, creased and edgeworn. Previous owner name written on page edges. Text highlighting, underlining and marginalia. Binding is tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Paper Back. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: As New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, tight, unmarked, front rubbed. No real defects, just a very good condition used book. Describes changes in the English language over time, four Periods of English language (Pre-English Period, Old English Period, Middle English Period, Modern English Period), related languages, changes in meanings of words, and much more. 196 pages. Macmillian/Collier, London, England, 1970.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 373 pp. Book has school stamps but was apparently uncirculated. Very light wear to boards. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Teachers Ed. very good condition; B047840; 144 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A very good copy of the presumed first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement) in a clear protective cover and cardboard slipcase. Save for the page number of one essay circled in pencil in the table of contents and a parenthetical note in pencil on that page [ 57 ] to the effect that Chotoku Higa was the owner's "elder brother" the text, which is in English and Japanese, is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding bright and fresh in appearance. Essays include: Geist's "Current Linguistic Change," Mead's :The Lyceum and American Culture," Higa's "Pessimism in Twain's What Is Man?"; Komesu's "Yeats and the Noh," Matsuda's"The Development in Transformational Grammar with Emphasis on the Treatment of Meaning," Nakachi's "The Study of Huckleberry Finn," Nakaima's "An Acoustic Tone Analysis of the Naha Dialect," Senaha's "On An Essay on Man," and Yagi's "Emerson's Dialectic Use of Hindu Thought." 362 pp. A brilliant copy.