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: 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

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

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

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

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

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Red buckram, gilt spine title, red dust jacket; [x],51,[1]pp. Bookplates of John P. Zanes and noted zoologist James G. Mead. Inscribed by Starnes to John P. Zanes in ballpoint on f.f.e.p. Straight, lightly rubbed, with discoloration to top..... 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

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

[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

New York: The Century Company, [1889-1891]. First Edition. Folio (33cm). Six volumes in half red leather and red cloth, gilt spine titles, all edges marbled; renewed brown endpapers; unpaginated; occasional in-text wood engravings. With a copy of an 1893 ad for the dictionary removed from an 1893 publisher's catalog. Bookplate..... More