[Port-au-Prince]: Institut Haitiano-Americain, 1945. First Edition. Octavo bifolium (23cm.). Extremities a bit worn and toned, light soil, some pencil marginalia to third panel (possibly by a judge?) else Very Good overall. Program for a competition in English diction overseen by Ambassador from the United States Orme Wilson and Haitian educator..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., Alexander Jameson, 1818. First Thus. The "valuable abridgement" of Jamieson's dictionary, first published in 1808 in two quarto volumes (ODNB). The ODNB states that the work is "somewhat weak in philology, but is generally admirable in definition and illustration, and. . . exhibits a rare..... More
Boston: Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1809. New Edition. 12 volumes; octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue paper-covered boards, orange printed spine labels, deckled edges; engraved portrait frontispiece in Vol. I. Boards a bit scuffed, a few volumes with shallow losses at spine ends, rear cover of Vol. XIII and upper cover of..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. First Thus. Three volumes; octavo (23cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's cloth, white dust jackets printed in red; facsimile frontispieces, including one folding, another double-paged. General shelf wear, including a few tiny chips to jacket, some light soil and foxing to extremities and textblock edges, else a...... More
London: Bowker-Saur, 1992. Octavo (24cm). Blue and white glazed paper over boards; iv,253pp. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Lightly rubbed and bumped but generally sound and clean: Very Good. More
Moskau: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UdSSR, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 51pp. Stock rather toned and a bit brittle due to poor paper stock, some brief chipping at spine crown, else Very Good. Correspondence school-issued second volume of a Russian dictionary for German émigré workers in..... More
Essex, CT: Verbatim, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (25.5cm.); gilt-stamped, dark red publisher's cloth-backed boards in natural tan pictorial dustwrapper; 267pp. Textblock is edgestained red; clear and bright. Pages off-white stock as-issued with mild handling wear, creased lower corners, else Near Fine. Boards also Near Fine or better; front..... More
[Australia]: Privately published, 2016. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); gilt-stamped, grey publisher's cloth-backed boards in pale pink pictorial dustwrapper; 115pp. Front pastedown and title page stamped, else Fine, like new. Surplus duplicate from the Library of Congress. This book introduces simple conversational sentences and words in Mandarin Chinese, providing Chinese characters..... More
Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1991. First English Language Edition. 12mo; pictorial card wrappers; 69,[32]pp. Issued as Chinathemen no. 63. Mild external wear; brief gift inscription; Very Good. Text in English, with appendices in Chinese. More
New York: Random House, 1994-97. First Edition. First printings. Two quarto volumes. Cloth-backed boards (hardcovers); dustjackets; 1006+736pp. Tight, Near Fine copies in like dustwrappers. Printed bookplate of Smithsonian curator James G. Mead to each volume. Lighter's dictionary, the first of its kind devoted to American slang, was projected to run..... More
Calcutta: Indian Statistical Institute, 1959. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's tan cloth, upper cover lettered in black Cyrllic typescript; [6],279pp.; text printed from typescript. Corners bumped, a hint of soil, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by J. Saha to title page: "To Miss Marjorie Quigley / With..... More
Bucuresti: Editura Didactica si Pedagogica, 1963. First Edition. Large octavo (24.25cm.); original cloth-backed boards; 220pp. Some wear to corners, spine a bit sunned, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Romanian. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "With the author's compliments." Remnants of the envelope in which this book was..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1951. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Two volumes in blue buckram, gilt spine titles, grey topstains, navy blue dust jackets; vol. I: xvi,976pp; vol. II: [ii],977-1946pp; occasional in-text black and white illustrations. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight, sound volumes, with slight shelfwear, endleaves lightly..... More
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[Verucchio]: Pier Giorgio Pazzini Stampatore Editore, [2000]. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in dark red and black, French flaps; 123pp. Minor dust-soil, else Near Fine. Collection of poems in the threatened Romagnol dialect by the Italian socialist, published a year before his death. Inscribed and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. First Edition. Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 894. Large octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in pale green dust jacket printed in red, black topstain; x,374pp. Jacket unevenly toned to tan, shallow chips and closed tears to extremities, split along spine edge..... More
London: Printed for the Authors, and Sold by Alexr Hogg and S. Leacroft, 1778. First Edition. First printing. Folio (35cm). Two volumes in later half brown leather, blue cloth over boards, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; not paginated; ad to final page of vol II; with 79 (of 80) full-page..... More
Albany: Websters and Skinners, 1821. First Edition. Address delivered by the American medical doctor and man of letters Samuel L. Mitchill (1734-1831), describing the literary achievements of the country by state, as well as endorsing the projected compilation of a dictionary of the American language. Despite Mitchill's prolific and storied..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Second Edition. Quarto (29cm). Two volumes in blue paper, backed in tan pictorial paper, titled in silver; vol. I: xx,912pp; vol. II: xiv,[913]-1864pp. Ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead in both volumes. Straight, sound, and clean, though corners of vol. II bumped: Very..... More
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1890. 12mo (18cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 112pp + [6]pp ads. Red ink hand-stamp ("Rejected 17 Ja '49") to base of page following title page, else clean, tight and unmarked; a Very Good, well-preserved copy. Includes three..... More
London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); glossy paper pictorial wrappers; viii,370pp. Wrappers mildly scuffed, with slight bumping to leading corners, heel and crown of spine; interiors have mild handling wear, otherwise clean. Near Fine overall. This book is intended to be an introduction to reading, writing..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953. Reprint. Quarto (26cm). Blue cloth, in dark blue dust jacket; xvi,1230pp. A straight copy, rubbed, spine sunned, endleaves foxed but otherwise clean: Good. Jacket sunned, foxed, rubbed, and much chipped, with cellotape repairs to verso: Fair. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (26cm). Publisher's pink cloth, with pink dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xii],199pp. 1976 ownership inscription to f.f.ep. A straight, clean copy: Near Fine. Jacket price-clipped, spine slightly browned, edges rubbed, minor dustiness to rear: Very Good. "Any reader of Russian history, whether..... More
London: 1839. Quarto (29cm). Two volumes in quarter brown leather, marbled paper-covered boards; yellow endpapers; vol. I: [iv],[1184]pp; vol. II: [ii],1185-[2223]pp. Bookplate of James G. Mead. Straight and sound, but rubbed, with amateur tissue repairs to joints (internal and external), board edges exposed, loss of leather to lower front corner..... More
Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1832. First Edition. First printing. Octavo in fours (24cm). In original tan paper-covered boards, backed in blue ribbon-embossed cloth, with small remnants of original paper spine label; plain endpapers; [i]-viii [9]-180pp. With occasional contemporary annotations. A straight copy with general moderate wear and rubbing to boards..... More
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1968. Third Printing. Octavo (23cm). Printed card wrappers; 99pp. Bit of external toning and soil, still clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good or better. In series "Porta Linguarum Orientalium." More
