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
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott, 1833. Second Edition, Englarged. Octavo in fours (22.5cm). In contemporary sprinkled leather, seven pairs of double gilt rules to spine, titled in gilt on leather spine label, all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers; [viii], [i]-xxx [31]-432pp; 8pp of publisher's ads at front; with numerous in-text relief..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1928. First Edition. Octavo; dark reddish-brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xvi,347,[1]pp. Ink name to front pastedown, text edges foxed, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with several tears to spine ends and some very faint scattered..... More
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co., 1923. Fourth edition. Octavo (25cm). Two volumes in green cloth, titled in gilt on spines, top edges grey; tan endpapers; vol. I: [xvi],678pp; [iv],[679]-1484,[2]pp. Bookplate of James G. Mead in both volumes. Straight and unfaded but gently rubbed, headcaps frayed, wear to joints of..... More
Eagle Lake, MN: Westerheim Press, [1992]. New Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 40pp. Light soil to upper cover, inoffensive pencil notes on title page, else Very Good and sound. Lecture originally presented at the National Reading Conference in 1987 and first published as "Storytelling, Reading and..... More
New York: Plenum Press, 1976. First Edition. A "unique panoptic survey of current researches into native languages" of North, South, and Central America, including the history of American Indian linguistics, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, philology, and writing systems (jacket flap). Large octavo (26cm). Two volumes in brown paper over boards, in..... More
London: Penguin, 1962. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Black cloth, stamped in silver, in tan dust jacket; plain endpapers; 151,[1]pp. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight and clean, lightly pushed at head, tail, and corners, prelims lightly rippled from bookplate glue: Very Good. Jacket rubbed, faded, and..... More
[Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2007]. 12mo (20.5cm). Red textured paper over boards, white dust jacket; 154pp. Bookplate and name of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Fine, in a lightly rubbed, Very Good or better jacket with minor dustsoil. The complete text of the first alphabetical English-language dictionary, printed in 1604. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963. Reprint. Folio (28cm). Publisher's red-brown cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; xliv,780pp. Bookplate and ownership inscription of noted zoologist and marine biologist James Glen Mead. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed, faded at spine and top edge of front, with minor spots to cloth and top edge..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1882. First Thus. First one-volume edition. Quarto (27cm). Brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and black on boards, all edges stained red; black coated endpapers; xxviii,799pp. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Ownership inscriptions to half-title. A...... More
Philadelphia: Butler & Williams, 1845. New Stereotyped Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's black morocco-backed dark grey printed paper-covered boards, gilt-ruled spine; 192pp. Boards rather rubbed and soiled, some minor insect-damage to leather; textblock a bit cockled from exposure to damp, lacking endpapers, preliminaries spotted, title page partially detached with long..... More
Waverly, NY: Mei Foo, 1940. First Edition. Limited to 5000 copies. Octavo (21cm); yellow paper wrappers w/ red print lettering, green print pattern of Chinese characters reading "Mei Fu"; 104pp. Light offsetting and soil to wrappers, minor handling wear; Very Good or better. W.J. Sosnoski taught himself how to read..... More
[N.p. Norris M. Strauss, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 12pp. A hint of wear, very faint soil to upper cover fore-edge, previous owner's underlining on p. 1 and addendum on p. 12, else Very Good or better. According to the previous owner's note: "Overlay --..... More
Selangor: Penerbitan Pustaka Al-Hilal, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued); 245pp. Covers rubbed; text clean, tight and unmarked. Elementary course in Standard Malay for English readers. Illustrated with explanatory graphics. More
Muncie, IN: William A. Sutton, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original staplebound self-wrappers; 12pp. Fine. "The enclosed suggestions are intended to abet volitional linguistic decency as regards sexual equality and identity" - upper wrapper. OCLC locates 5 copies as of November, 2015. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; xiv, 263pp. A few superficial scratches to rear wrapper and bottom edge of textblock, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Near Fine. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876. Octavo (25.5cm). Full contemporary leather, titled on red spine label, all edges marbled; plain endpapers; xx,9-2336pp. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Bookseller's ticket of "Solomons and Chapman, Washington, DC." Sound but externally rubbed, internally with a few small spots of foxing..... More
[Washington, DC]: National Education Association, [1988]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's magenta staplebound card wrappers; 28pp. A hint of wear, else Fine. Critique of language restrictionism and the pending English Language Amendment. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1903. First Edition. Folio (29cm). Contemporary half black sheep, black cloth over boards; marbled endpapers; xxviii,349,[1]pp. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. A straight, sound copy, rubbed, leather scuffed and peeling, internally slightly toned but clean: Very Good. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology..... More
[Temple Terrace, FL]: Educa Vision, [1998, but 2006]. Revised Edition. Quarto (27.25cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 163pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit soiled, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Copyright date 1998 but "Edited March 2006" is printed on rear cover. More
Hartford: S. Andrus & Son, 1851. First Pocket Edition [But Reprint]. 12mo (15cm.); publisher's brown blind-tooled morocco, gilt-lettered spine, all edges marbled; 336pp. Boards quite rubbed, hinges cracked and both covers nearly separated, shallow loss to both spine ends, front flyleaf trimmed, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; Good only..... More
Portland, ME: Sanborn and Carter, 1846. Fiftieth Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); one quarter black paper with brown paper sides, gilt on spine; iv,228pp. Comprehensive dampstaining, wear and soiling; pinholes to spine hinges; board extremities rubbed and chapped, corners bumped. Textblock foxed and damped; stray marks throughout; Ben & Bernarda Shahn bookplate..... More
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New York: The Times of London / The Century Company, 1899 & 1903. Revised Edition. According to the Publisher's Note, the Edition of 1899 "comprises all the changes and additions thus made [since the first edition of 1891], and has also been revised with the same care, and will be..... More
