Kyoto: Kyoto Daigaku Humanities Department, 1983. 8vo, pp. [2], v, [7], 706, [6]; text in Japanese with table of contents in English; green cloth boards, fine in near fine slipcase. With chapters by Yukio Yamane, Susumu Fuma, Masao Mori, et al. More
[Auckland]: Heinemann Educational Books, [1979]. First edition, 12mo, pp. ix, [1], 1339; very good in original green cloth and slightly worn dust-wrapper. The first New Zealand dictionary to blend the headwords, phrases, meanings, and pronunciations which are part of the New Zealand idiom into the international corpus of words rather..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1967. 4to, pp. x, [2], 362; frontispiece, and lithographic illustrations throughout by Lynd Ward; fine in quarter blue cloth over paper-covered marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine, publisher's slipcase (very lightly scuffed at top edge), The Heritage Club monthly newsletter laid in. Selections from Jefferson's..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. Reprint, 12mo, pp. [12], 279, [1]; two-tone title page vignette; contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt spine in 6 compartments, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; joints cracked, rear cover nearly separated, edges a touch scuffed; textblock fine. Originally published in 1897..... More
Washington [D.C.]: Henry M. Parkhurst, 1853. 16mo (6.5" x 4.5") consisting of bound issues from year IV, no. 11 to year V, no. 34 of The Plowshare, two issues of The Cosmopolitan, and year V, no. 16 to year VI, no. 30 of The American Reporter, as issued. Pp. [4]..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1964. 12mo, pp. xii, 196; original stiff white wrappers (a bit soiled), edges toned, 2 small stains to textblock fore-edge, else very good. "A Dutton Paperback." More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1927. 8vo, pp. 250, [1]; original half red cloth over marbled boards, red-lettered spine, top edge green; edges and first and last few leaves quite foxed, else fine. More
London: E. Moxon, 1870. Thick 8vo, [82] & 586pp. plus ads, genealogical tables at the front; front hinge cracked, else good or better in orig. red cloth, blue label lettered in gilt; ex-MHS. More
Salt Lake City: Porte Publishing, [c1923]. First edition (and so noted on title page), 12mo, pp. [4], iii, [1], 283, [1]; a few illustrations in the text; very good in original brown leatherette stamped in blind and green on front cover and spine; very light wear to extremities. More
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1997. 2 volumes, 8vo; frontispieces and facsimile illustrations throughout; fine. Includes biblographies of his work and index. More
London: X-ASITY, 1989. 16mo, pp. 336; text illustrations; red printed paper wrappers; corners of upper wrapper a little worn, near fine. A compilation of 100 articles from the U. S. press between Oct. 1961 and April 1966 about Bob Dylan, with index. No copies in OCLC. More
Baton Rouge: the Friends of the LSU Library, 1987. First edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 280; original turquoise cloth stamped in silver; fine. Preface by Kathryn Morgan. Introductory essay on natural history illustration by David M. Lank. More
Uppsala: Norna-förlaget, 1993. 8vo, pp. 176; text in Swedish with English summaries; printed paper wrappers; textblock clocked, but clean and sound, near fine. Norna-Rapporter 51. A result of a symposium on the theme of "Personal names in Old Scandinavian and other Old Germanic languages." More
[Minneapolis]: privately printed, 1928. Edition limited to 300 copies printed by Carl Purrington Rollins at the Yale University Press, signed by Phelps on the colophon; 8vo, pp. [8], 169, [1]; very good copy in orig. black cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering on spine. The Upson Room, at the University of Minnesota..... More
Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2004. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. viii, 43; black and white photographic portrait frontispiece; original cream wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Uomini e Dottrine no. 41. Laid in autograph note signed by the editor concerning the death of his father. More
Hartford: Press of the Fowler & Miller Co., 1893. Slim 8vo, pp. 94; original half white cloth over grey boards (soiling), upper cover stamped in black and gilt; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, spine discolored, edges and corners scuffed, interior mostly fine. Publication includes the menu, starting with Canapés..... More
Leningrad: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 1989. 8vo, pp. 187, [5], 10, [2]; text in Russian with English summaries; 9 full-page illustrations, maps; printed paper wrappers; abrasion to upper wrapper, bookseller's ticket on lower wrapper, text clean and sound, very good. Papers on nuthatches in Sakhalin, storm-petrels, aging of pied flycatchers, Japanese..... More
Seattle: published by the editor, [c. 1967]. 4to, pp. 38; stiff white pictorial wrappers; textblock loose, light toning and wear to wrappers. Featuring work by Jack Large, Clair Oursler, Oshune, Carlos Reyes, Dave Wagner, Edward Smith, Charles Potts, Dirk Kortz, and Dawn. Although not stated, this copy is from the..... More
Seattle: published by the editor, [n.d., c. 1968]. 4to, pp. 46; stiff white pictorial wrappers; textblock loose, light toning and wear to wrappers, one inch tear to spine. Featuring work by Charles Potts, Edward SMith, Norm Sihum, Gino Clays, Karen Waring, David Tammer, L. Kent, and Paul W. Sawyer. Although..... More
Los Angeles: University of California Library, 1955. First edition, 4to, pp. [1], ii, 70; very good in original green cloth-backed wrappers, somewhat discolored and rubbed. More
New York: To be ordered through the Secretary of the Association, Dean Harry L. Levy, 1959. 8vo, pp. vi, 274, lxi; original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; minor damp damage to spine and hinges, else mostly very good. More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1988]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xxx, [2], 192; original full green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket; lower corner rubbed, a few small closed tears to jacket, else near fine. Contains approximately 1,000 entries from Canada's smallest province. More
Rowley, MA: Newbury House Publishers, 1982. First edition, 8vo, pp. v, [3], 286; original white wrappers (a bit soiled) printed in blue and orange; some toning along edges, else very good. Collection of scholarly papers on non-mother-tongue "Englishes" More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 342; text printed in double columns; original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; small chip to front bottom right-hand jacket corner, else fine. Editor inscription on title page: "This represents the first brick in the path to lexical domination"..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1966]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 369; a fine copy in original blue cloth, dust jacket (a bit scuffed). A selection of new fiction, poetry, drama and criticism by 21 writers of the time, which include Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, Irvin Faust, John Barth..... More
