29317. Flesch, Rudolf. The Art of Readable Writing. Foreword by Alan J. Gould. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1949, later printing, xiv, 237pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $7.5 Book club edition with red square on rear corner of binding. Otherwise clean, solid hardcover edition.
12033. Hughes, Geoffrey. Words in time: a social history of English vocabulary. Oxford: New York: Blackwell, 1988, 270pp. : ill.. 24 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, $13 The Language library.
17437. Humesky, Assya. Majakovskij and his neologisms. New York, [Rausen Publishers] 1964, xviii, 269pp. 22 cm, PAPERBACK, very good blue sewn paper wraps, $19 Based in part on the author's doctoral thesis, Harvard University. Pages 1-83 text in English, pages 85-255 in Russian.
15269. Martin, Harold C. / Ohmann, Richard M.. The Logic and Rhetoric of Exposition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, revised edition, 291pp., very good brown cloth, $12 .
16368. Munson, James Eugene, 1835-1906. The complete phonographer, and reporter's guide: an inductive exposition of phonography, with its application to all branches of reporting. Rev. ed.. New York, Harper & brothers, 1877, xvi, [2], [19]-241pp. 20 cm, very good small green cloth, a bit worn around edges, stenographic college stamp on title page, previous owner's names, $20 .
35300. Schmitt, Rüdiger. Grammatik des Klassisch-Armenischen mit sprachvergleichenden Erläuterungen. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2007, 2. durchgesehene Auflage, 253pp., very good green hardcover, new copy, $89 . ISBN 9783851247077
20889. Wallraff, Barbara. Word court: wherein verbal virtue is rewarded, crimes against the language are punished, and poetic justice is done. New York: Harcourt Brace, 2000, stated First Edition, xiv, 368pp. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, slight wear, $7.5 . ISBN 0151003815
16371. Willinsky, John, 1950-. Empire of words : the reign of the OED. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994, viii, 258pp. : ill. . 25 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good green cloth, tiny tear at bottom of spine, $10 .
21507. Winchester, Simon. The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999, 242pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $3 . ISBN 006099486X
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