Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. First Edition. Second impression. Octavo (25cm). Grey paper-covered boards, in dust jacket; xvii,[3],625pp. Bookplate and ownership inscription of James Glen Mead. A straight, clean copy, gently rubbed at head, tail, and corners: Near Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges, slightly dusty: Very Good. More

Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1871. "Revised edition." 12mo (19cm). Green cloth stamped in orange, all edges stained orange and green; brown coated endpapers; [ii],5292,[2]pp; 2pp advertisements at rear. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Rubbed, with a few minor spots to cloth, but sound, internally clean: around..... More

[Oxford]: Basil Blackwell, [1988]. Reprint. Octavo (24cm). Brown paper over boards, in dark red jacket; [x],270pp. Fine in lightly rubbed, Near Fine jacket. More

[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

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

Honolulu: Tongg Publishing Company, 1943. 16mo (16cm). Blue cloth stamped in black; 314pp. Sound, with general mild rubbing and wear, front board lightly curved, internally clean: Very Good. #61460. 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

Philadelphia: John F. Watson and Joseph Delaplaine, 1812. Second American Edition. 12mo (14.5cm). Contemporary speckled sheep, titled in gilt on leather spine label; [i]-xii [13]-142pp. With large ownership inscriptions of Jesse C. Thomas to endleaves, and "J. C. Thomas" to lower edge of textblock. Sound, rubbed at edges and joints..... 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

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

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

[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

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