Language & Linguistics
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Golden Boy as Anthony Cool: A Photo Essay on Naming and Graffiti
$800.00 Add to cartHerbert Kohl; James Hinton
New York: The Dial Press, 1972.
Important early study of urban text graffiti and tagging in New York. More than just a photobook, though Hinton’s work definitely gives it that distinction, Kohl, founder of the 1960s Open School movement, provides lengthy and invaluable insight into language and identity. -
Methods and Materials for Recording Australian Languages
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First Edition.
12cm x 15.5cm. vi, 68 pages, [68] interleaved blanks. Lettered wrappers.
Field guide for fieldwork with Aboriginal language by Arthur Capell. A. P. Elkin, the Australian anthropologist’s copy, with his signature, The University of Sydney, to the wrappers upper panel.
Minor creasing. Very Good Condition. -
Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development
$150.00 Add to cartR. M. W. Dixon
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. -
Notes on Some Queensland Languages
$100.00 Add to cartNils M. Holmer
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, 1988.
Fieldwork notes on indigenous languages of Queensland, New Guinea, and Torres Strait: Mer, Saibai, Gugu-Bujun and related languages, Kantyu and Koko-Yalandji, Gangulida, Bundjil and Wandji, Garwa, Punthamara. -
A Descriptive Study of the Djingili Language
$55.00 Add to cartNeil Chadwick
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1975. -
Narratives from the North-West of Western Australia in the Ngarluma and Jindjiparndi Languages (3 Volumes)
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First Edition.
26cm x 20cm. 3 volumes. Illustrated wrappers.
60 narratives in language with translations, notes, glossary, and index.
Some discolouration, rubbing, and light creasing to wrappers of volume 1, minor to vols. 2 and 3. Very Good Condition. -
Drugs: Sign Language Workbook
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First Edition.
27.5cm x 21.5cm. [126] pages, black and white illustrations. Ringbound illustrated covers.
American Sign Language teaching book for language around drugs including alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, as well as police, hospital, therapy, etc.
. Fine Condition. -
The Language of the Wangerriburra and Neighbouring Groups in the Yugambeh Region
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First Edition.
21cm x 14cm. 80 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
From the Works of John Allen and John Lane, edited and published by The Kombumerri Corporation for Culture.
Very minor shelf wear. Very minor tanning to page extremities. Near Fine Condition. -
Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness
$50.00 Add to cartDiana Reed Slattery
Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2015.
Foreword by Allyson Grey. -
The Descent Into Words: Jakob Bohme’s Transcendental Linguistics
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xiv, 201 pages. Lettered wrappers, illustrated jacket.
Minor shelf wear. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition. -
Languages of Cape York
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First Edition.
24.5cm x 17.5cm. xi, 314 pages. Lettered wrpapers.
Soiling to edges. Minor creasing to spine. Good Condition. -
A Basic Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary
$125.00 Add to cartCliff Goddard
Alice Springs: Institute for Aboriginal Development, 1987. -
Etudes et Documents 8: Observatoire du Francais dans le Pacifique
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. 196 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Text is in French.
French Observations in the Pacific. Including Le Lexique du Bagne a la Nouvelle by K.J. Hollyman and A.S.G. Butler. The Observatoire du Francais Dans le Pacifique was created in 1979 as a multi-organisational and multi-departmental linguistic research unit based in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Auckland.
Minor soiling, insect damage, and foxing. Small water stain to middle of top edge of lower panel and leaves. Good Condition. -
Pintupi / Luritja Dictionary
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Third Edition.
30cm x 21cm. vi, 267 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor bumping to spine corners. Very Good Condition. -
The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality
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Reprint.
22.5cm x 15cm. ix, 186 pages, black and white illustrations. Lettered wrappers.
. Fine Condition. -
Bilingual Situations and Translation
$50.00 Add to cartMaximilian Brandle
Wollongong: Department of Modern Languages, Wollongong University, 1995. -
A Dissertation Upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue / Two Dissertations / Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon / Seven Letters Containing a New and Easy Method of Learning the Hebrew Language / An Hebrew Lexicon
$1,000.00 Add to cartGregory Sharpe
London: John Millan, 1751.
Two scarce works on Latin and Hebrew language by English theologian Gregory Sharpe (1713-1771) bound in one volume, being: A Dissertation Upon the Origin and Structure of the Latin Tongue: Containing a Rational and Compendious Method of learning Latin: Taken from The Powers of the Servile Letters, The Uses of the Greek Digamma, and The Cuases of the Latin Tongue TOGETHER WITH Two Dissertations: I. Upon the Origin, Construction, Division, and Relation of Languages. II. Upon the Original Powers of Letters; wherein is proved from the Analogy of Alphabets, and the Proportion of Letters, that the Hebrew ought to be read without Points. To which is added, The Second Edition, enlarged, of a Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon, Without Points BEING Seven Letters Containing a New and Easy Method of Learning the Hebrew Language: The Second Edition Enlarged AND An Hebrew Lexicon, Containing all the Primitive Words in Hebrew, and Many Deriv’d Words in that and other Languages: with their Various Significations in Hebrew and English. Free from the Masoretic Points. To which is added An Alphabetical Table or Index of all the English and other Words in the Lexicon; with a Reference by Figures to the original Hebrew, The Second Edition, Enlarged, Answering to, or Derived from the Hebrew: in which The Hebrew Letter is the First Radical, and the numerical Figure refers to the Third Radical. The Greek, and all Words in Italic Character, are Derivatives. -
Bagh O Bahar: Consisting of Entertaining Tales in the Hindustani Language by Mir Amman of Dihli
$80.00 Add to cartDuncan Forbes
London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1873.
To Which is Added, A Vocabulary of all the Words Occurring in the Work. -
The Superior Person’s Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive & Downright Dangerous Language
$25.00 Add to cartPeter Bowler; Leslie Cabarga
Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2008. -
The Quick Brown Fox: Using Australian English
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First Edition.
18cm x 11cm. [vii], 196 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor wear to wrappers. Tanning to pages. Very Good Condition. -
Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. xxxvi, 465 pages. Illustrated boards, no jacket.
Cross/Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English No. 182. ANSEL Papers Volume 19.
Slightly cocked. Very minor soiling to edges. Very Good Condition. -
The Language-Culture Connection
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First Edition.
21cm x 15cm. vi, 263 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Anthology Series 37.
1496 written in texta on spine. Sticker and stamp of Macquarie Library, no other library markings. Minor wear to wrappers. Very Good Condition. -
Language Use & Language Change in Brunei Darussalam
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First Edition.
Ohio University Center for International Studies: Monographs in International Studies: Southeast Asia Series Number 100.
Book is in Very Good Plus Condition, by which we mean it has minor marks of age and/or wear from light handling, but is still a very desirable copy. Very Good Condition. -
The Quick Brown Fox: Using Australian English
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First Edition.
18cm x 11cm. [vii], 196 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Very minor general wear. Minor tanning to page extremities. Near Fine Condition. -
A Grammar of Worrorra
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First Edition.
29.5cm x 21cm. vii, 144 pages. Ringbound, illustrated covers.
Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
The Tiwi Language
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First Edition.
24cm x 18cm. xii, 170 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Grammar, myths and dictionary of the Tiwi language spoken on Melville and Bathurst Islands, northern Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies No. 55, Linguistic Series No. 21.
Discolouration to wrappers. Very minor general wear. Very Good Condition. -
The English Language
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Fourth Folio Printing.
23cm x 15cm. xvi, 230 pages, frontispiece, [26] pages of illustrations. Quarter cloth, decorative papered boards, gilt lettering, slipcase.
Introduction by Robert McCrum, afterword by John Simpson. FORD-SMITH 1321.
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Semantography (Blissymbolics): A Logical Writing for an Illogical World
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Third Edition. Signed by Author
23cm x 16cm. 882 pages. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
The ideographic writing system of Austro-Hungarian (current Ukraine) Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985). Jewish, Bliss conceived his Blissymbols while a refugee in Shanghai and Sydney with the goal of creating an easy to learn international auxiliary language. He migrated with his wife to Australia in 1946. The scarcely seen Third Edition, this copy with a lengthy inscription by Charles in Blissymbols and English.
Some soiling to edges. A very small stain to crown fore-edge corner of lower pages, interior otherwise clean. The jacket in Poor Condition, water stained and soiled and with a chunk missing from the upper panel. Good Condition. -
The Complete Guide to English Usage for Australian Students
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Sixth Edition.
25cm x 19cm. ix, 253 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor creasing to wrappers. Very Good Condition. -
The Complete Guide to English Usage for Australian Students
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Fifth Edition.
25cm x 19cm. viii, 200 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor general wear. Near Fine Condition.