About this title: The Compact Edition of the OED reproduces micrographically, in a single volume, the complete text of the highly acclaimed Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. In this edition, nine pages of the original fit onto just one. This volume comes in a slipcase with a magnifying glass and a new user's guide which explains the conventions of ...
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Edition: 2 Sub
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 12/5/1991
ISBN-13:9780198612582ISBN:0198612583
Description: Good. 0198612583 Slipcase and magnifying glass are NOT included. **2nd Edition** Binding is slightly loose. Text is clean and unmarked. --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--May have a small blue OUP stamp on bottom or top edge of pages. Packaging have light shelf wear from storage, if any. read more
Description: Good. 0198612583 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: Very good. Features include the full text of the 2nd Edition reproduced micrographically (9: 1); over 500, 00 definitions, 137, 000 pronunciations, 249, 000 etymologies, and 2.4 million illustrative quotations; For more than 100 years, the world's greatest diction. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition. Reprint. 2nd ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198612582ISBN:0198612583
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 2424 p. Audience: General/trade. Very slight marking on boards. Otherwise fine. Complete with User's Guide and magnifying glass. Slipcase shows some scuffing and wear.. read more
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Clarendon, London
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780198612582ISBN:0198612583
Description: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Large 4to. (18)2386pp. Biblio. In a like new slipcase. Includes "User's Guide" & magnifying glass. Unused condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198612582ISBN:0198612583
Description: VERY GOOD++ No Jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. This new edition is in great shape and if not for one spot of tiny rubbing on back of slipcase it would be fine. slip case and book are in exceptional condition. no reading glass, a real treasured volume. read more
Description: Large slip-case contains book plus box with user's guide and magnifying glass. 20 volumes reduced to one volume. 2386 pages. 2nd edition. 36 x 27 cms. ISBN 9780198612582. Unused copy, a few dents to slip case otherwise untouched. read more
Description: Very good. Features include the full text of the 2nd Edition reproduced micrographically (9: 1); over 500, 00 definitions, 137, 000 pronunciations, 249, 000 etymologies, and 2.4 million illustrative quotations; For more than 100 years, the world's greatest diction. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198612582ISBN:0198612583
Description: As New with no dust jacket. 0198612583. Never used, in original packing box. Includes magnifier and publisher booklet.; 3.7 x 17.5 x 11.2 Inches; 2424 pages. read more
Description: PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly shipped from our UK warehouse using Royal Mail International Priority mail. Heavier or more expensive books are shipped with a TRACKING NUMBER. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). The Compact Edition of the OED reproduces micrographically, in a single volume, the complete text of the highly acclaimed Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. In this edition, nine pages of the original fit onto just one. This volume comes in a slipcase with ... read more
Description: PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly imported from the UK using DHL or Royal Mail international mail WITH TRACKING NUMBER. Delivery is typically 5-10 working days. Please do not select expedited shipping. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). The Compact Edition of the OED reproduces micrographically, in a single volume, the complete text of the highly acclaimed Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. In this edition, nine pages of the original fit onto just one. This volume ... read more
Edition: 2 SUB
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780198612582ISBN:0198612583
Description: When the twenty-volume Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, appeared years ago, the public response was extraordinary. The AP and UPI announced publication over their newswires. Time and Newsweek ran full-page articles. The New Yorker published... read more
Description: New. 0198612583 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"Wow, what a dictionary! As far as dictionaries goes, this is the dictionariest. This is the paragon of dictionaries, it's super dictionariarific. I paid almost 300 clams for this dictionary and I don't regret it. I paid 300 dollars for a root canal once and when I was done I said, "Is that all I get for three hundred bucks". I have never said that about this dictionary.
If I want to know what Boswell or Chaucer meant when they were using a certain word, all I had to do is look in this dictionary!
The only problem with this book is that the words are super small. The publishers, however, have been most charitable in adding a swell magnifing glass so you can actually read it.
I love my OED and if there were such a thing as the 'Dictionary Police' who went around confiscating peoples dictionaries--they would have to pry this one from my cold dead fingers.
This dictionary makes me want to write a special haiku in its honor.
"I received this as a gift from my mother and sister when graduating from CU. I love books, and I cannot think of a single book in my collection more precious to me than this one."
"My family had a much older edition of this on our bookshelves when I was growing up. I did NOT appreciate it as a kid. It was totally useless to me. I once tried to use it for a vocabulary assignment in English. I only wanted the definition of the words! I didn't need to see an entire history of it and a bibliography of where all the words were discovered for the first time in print and how the definition has changed in the last 500 years. I just about cried at how long the definitions were and got hand cramps before I even finished copying down the firest one.
Anyway, It is now one of my most favorite resources. I love to see how words have changed over the ages and when they first appeared in our language."
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