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BASTARD TONGUES: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hill & Wang, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all - Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. . . Bickerton has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. . . a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer." Double page map, glossary, index. suggested reading. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-28174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56321More details Price: $17.50 -
THE MALEDICTION IN INDO-EUROPEAN TRADITION.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in blue wrappers with title label on front cover.
Book ID: 85556More details Price: $65.00 -
EARLY KINGDOMS IN MADAGASCAR 1500-1700.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on detailed research into the precolonial history of Madagascar in an attempt to provide a more balanced answer to the questions of how the early kingdoms formed, their growth, and why did they change. He discovered that African influences -versus those from Asia - were more significant than previously thought. Illustrated with black and white photographs and 12 maps. xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 0-030841712.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (sunning to spine and upper edge of dj.)
Book ID: 47215More details Price: $21.00 -
OUT OF SILENCE. A Journey into Language.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating, and highly praised, story of a little boy trapped in silence and struggling to regain language. Dustjacket praise from Richard Selzer and Ivan Doig. ISBN: 0-8050-19987.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4761More details Price: $15.00 -
OUT OF SILENCE. A Journey into Language.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fascinating, and highly praised, story of a little boy trapped in silence and struggling to regain language. Dustjacket praise from Richard Selzer and Ivan Doig. ISBN: 0-8050-19987.
Condition: SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 29017More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LANGUAGES OF FIJI.
Edition: First printing.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1972. Hardcover first edition - Frontispiece of Rev. David Cargill. Illustrated. Maps. Bibliography. Index.xii, 120 pp. ISBN: 0-19-8151365.
Condition: Very good overall in dark blue cloth with rubbing to the spine, lacking the dj (prev owner's name,) Uncommon,
Book ID: 47956More details Price: $40.00 -
ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Edition: First edition.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-195106873.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 72781More details Price: $25.00
