Author: Bernard Quaritch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Catalogue of Works on Music, Songs, Games, Sports, Military and Naval Sciences, Law, Diplomacy, Trade, and Proverbs... Offered for Cash at the Affixed Net Prices by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, W. London, August, 1882
Catalogue of Works on Music, Songs, Games, Sports, Military and Naval Sciences, Law, Diplomacy, Trade, and Proverbs... Offered for Cash at the Affixed Net Prices by Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, W. London, August, 1882
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
A Catalogue of Works on Music, Songs, Games, Sports, Military and Naval Sciences, Law, Diplomacy, Proverbs, Bibliography, Typography, Literary and Catalogues of Libraries
Author: Bernard Quaritch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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A General Catalog of Books Offered to the Public at the Affixed Prices
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
General Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
CATALOGUE OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE
Chats on Autographs
Author: Alexander Meyrick Broadley
Publisher: New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger Fletcher
Publisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
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Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Life of Slang
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191630721
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and machine-searchable newspaper collections provide a wealth of new information about historical slang, while blogs and tweets provide us with a completely new perspective on contemporary slang. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company. Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents characterize the language of teenagers as sloppy, repetitive, and unintelligent, but these complaints are nothing new. In 1906, an Australian journalist overheard some youths on a street-corner: Things will be bally slow till next pay-day. I've done in nearly all my spond. Here, now; cheese it, or I'll lob one in your lug. Lend us a cigarette. Lend it; oh, no, I don't part. Look out, here's a bobby going to tell us to shove along. What, he wondered, was the world coming to. For the 411, read on ...
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191630721
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It explores why and how slang is used, and traces the development of slang in English-speaking nations around the world. The records of the Old Bailey and machine-searchable newspaper collections provide a wealth of new information about historical slang, while blogs and tweets provide us with a completely new perspective on contemporary slang. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company. Teachers, politicians, broadcasters, and parents characterize the language of teenagers as sloppy, repetitive, and unintelligent, but these complaints are nothing new. In 1906, an Australian journalist overheard some youths on a street-corner: Things will be bally slow till next pay-day. I've done in nearly all my spond. Here, now; cheese it, or I'll lob one in your lug. Lend us a cigarette. Lend it; oh, no, I don't part. Look out, here's a bobby going to tell us to shove along. What, he wondered, was the world coming to. For the 411, read on ...
The History of American Ornithology Before Audubon
Author: Elsa Guerdrum Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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