Literature in exile
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 175, [1]; full burgundy cloth; fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. More
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The poetical works of Thomas Moore
London: Oxford University Press, 1924. 12mo, pp. xxx, 751; frontispiece portrait of Moore, marbled endpapers with some toning at edges, else a very good copy in contemporary half navy morocco with gilt decorated spine and raised bands. t.e.g. More
Incunabula in American libraries. A third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections.
New York: the Bibliographical Society of America, 1964. 8vo, pp. lxiii, [1], 798; original red buckram; spine slightly faded, else fine. More
Dictionary of American underworld lingo
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1950. First edition, 8vo, pp. 327; lexicon in double column; original cloth in second state grey-blue pictorial dust jacket; chips and tears along jacket edges and spine ends with one 1/4-inch loss; about fine and good jacket. The board of advisors for this compilation includes Bad..... More
Bucolica, Georgica, et eneis. Accendunt Clavis Metrica, Notulæ Anglicæ, et Quæstiones, nec non index vocabulorum Uberrima.
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, 1826. 8vo, pp. iv, 602, [2], 207, index; engraved folding map; contemporary sheep, red leather spine label lettered in gilt; binding worn with small chips at rear joint, hinges cracked, light sporadic foxing, overall a sound, tight, good or better copy. Gould (1787-1859), was one of the..... More
Standard phonographic visitor, vol. IV
New York: Andrew J. Graham, 1869. 12mo, pp. [2], 622, with 52 weekly issues, from July 1869 to July 1870, each 12 pp. with 8 pp of standard type and 4 pp. of lithographed shorthand text, until issue 47 at which point the format changes to 12 pp. of shorthand..... More
California imprints, 1833-1862 a bibliography.
Los Gatos: the Talisman Press, 1961. First edition, 1 0f 750 copies, pp. 524; illus.; fine in original red cloth, good dust-jacket with some chips, edgewear and darkened spine. More
Adam international review, Vol. XXXIV, nos. 328-330
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 1969. 8vo, pp. 95, [1]; 4 leaves of black and white illustrations printed on rectos and versos; original white pictorial wrappers, heavily foxed, else very good. Special issue on French author Georges Simenon, including his own "A novelist is a man who writes novels: I...... More
The poetry of the affections
New York: Leavitt & Company, 1850. 16mo, pp. x, 288; occasional foxing, a.e.g.; edges lightly rubbed, else very good or better in full green calf with gilt diced pattern and double gilt rules on covers, gilt-decorated spine. Love poems from various authors such as Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley to name..... More
Plastische ornamente der italienischen Renaissance, als vorlagen für schule und werkstatt
Berlin: Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth, [1881]. Large folio, pp. [4], 30 black and white photographic plates hinged with linen; 20th-century brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; edges a bit rubbed, else very good. Photographs by the editor show details of plaster ornaments from the Italian Renaissance. More
Language, mind, and knowledge
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 424; text diagrams; original cloth in brown dust jacket printed in white; minor wear to jacket with small, 1/2-inch tear in the middle of upper jacket hinge, previous bookseller's sticker on back jacket cover; interior fine. Minnesota Studies in the..... More
Le magasin du spectacle, no. 3, juillet, 1946
Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1946. 8vo, pp. 186, [6]; 2 leaves of black and white photographic plates printed on rectos and versos, additional full-page illustrations throughout; original white wrappers, decorative border in purple and red; uneven toning throughout, else very good. Includes "Des Souris et des Hommes (fin)," the French..... More
The mountain men and the fur trade of the far west. Biographical sketches of the participants by scholars of the subject and with introductions by the editor
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1965-1972. First edition, 10 volumes, frontispieces in each (that in volume I in full color), folding map in volume I, illustrations throughout; a fine set in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slight wear to extremities. A monumental effort tracing the contributions of individual "mountain men"..... More
The mountain men and the fur trade of the far west. Biographical sketches of the participants by scholars of the subject and with introductions by the editor
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1965-1972. First edition, 9 volumes, frontispieces in each (that in vol. I in full color), folding map in vol. I, illustrations throughout; a fine set in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, slight wear to extremities; vols. VII, VIII, & IX retaining their plain kraft paper..... More
Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others.
London: William Pickering, 1945. 16mo, pp. lxxv, [1], 136; contemporary half blue morocco over blue cloth, spine gilt lined in six compartments and gilt lettered; head of spine a bit chipped, joints and corners lightly rubbed, bookplate to front pastedown, else a very good, attractive copy. More
Little folks' every day book. Rhymes and illustrations for every day...Twelve color designs emblematic of the months: by G.F. Barnes
Boston: D. Lothrop & Company, 1881. 24mo, unpaged; color frontispiece, 11 plates, 366 engraved illustrations throughout; publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, tan floral endpapers; spine toned, edges and corners a bit rubbed; lacking ffep, contemporary gift inscription on front fly leaf and blank leaf in back..... More
The history of lexicography: papers from the Dictionary Research Centre seminar at Exeter, March, 1986.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986. 8vo, pp. viii, 265, [3]; text printed from typescript; original white and orange printed boards (some light soiling). 23 essays by Allen Walker Reed, Roger Steiner, and Robert Allen on subjects diverse as John Wilkins, Chinese Dictionaries, Lexicographers of the North, and the Beginnings..... More
物語 日本の労働運動 / Monogatari. Nihon no roudou undou [= The story of the Japanese labor movement]
Tokyo: Rionsha, 1953. Second printing, 12mo, pp. 259, [1]; text in Japanese; text illustrations, one folding chart; blue cloth backed in white paper, gilt title on spine; spine toned, light rubbing and bumping to edges, textblock browning but clean, very good. Hattori was a historian and himself a member of..... More
The beginning of American aid in Southeast Asia: the Griffin mission of 1950
Lexington, MA: Heath Lexington Books, [1971]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 336; tables in the text; very good in original terracotta cloth lettered in silver. More
Word Study (vol. XXI-XXX)
Newark: G. & C. Merriam Company, 1946-1955). An incomplete run of this periodical for teachers, vol. xxi no. 5 to vol XXX no. 2, lacking the whole of vol. XXVI in between; 8vo, pp. [344]; text in double column, each issue with biographies of important linguists, word trivia, observations on..... More
Class of seventy, Yale University: report of the fiftieth anniversary, June 19 to 23, 1920. Together with a supplementary biographical record continuing the history of the class of '70, 1911-1921
Boston: Thomas Todd Company, 1921. 8vo, pp. 222; black and white photographic frontispiece, one additional plate; contemporary three-quarter white cloth over blue cloth, gilt stamped upper cover and spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, gift bookplate from Yale Class of 1870; white cloth a bit soiled, spine toned, interior..... More
Words of power: voices from Indian America
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, [1994]. First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [2], 56; original black pictorial paper-covered boards; sentence circled in ink on p. 3, gift inscription on front free endpaper, else about fine. Signed by the editor. More
Abstracts of bacteriology 1917-1925
Baltimore and London: Williams & Wilkins Company, and Cambridge University Press, 1917. An unbroken run of this medical journal, vol 1, no 1 to vol 9, no 12. After the ninth volume the journal was continued as the Journal of Bacteriology. Original gray paper covers, bound in to 9 vols..... More
The papacy: an illustrated history from St. Peter to Paul VI
New York: Macmillan Company, [1964]. Large 4to, pp. 304; plain and color illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers; original linen in white pictorial dust jacket; spine rather toned, some minor jacket edge wear, else very good and sound. More
Life and thought in the early middle ages.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1968]. Second printing, 8vo, pp. [4], 165; 18 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 8 plates; a fine, fresh copy in like dust jacket. Eight essays by academics demonstrating "that the significance of the period is far better indicated by words like 'transition' or..... More
