London: Andre Deutsch, 1982. First edition, 8vo, pp. 214; 16 leaves of facsimiles printed on rectos and versos; original stiff purple wrappers; pages uniformly toned, else very good. Forms part of the Language Library. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. First American edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 792; text printed in double columns; original black cloth (a bit soiled) printed in silver; minor edge wear, some soiling to textblock edge, previous bookseller's ticket on back pastedown; a very good, sound copy. "Published in England..... More
Osimo: Domenicantonio Quercetti, 1768. Small 8vo, pp. [8], 208; full contemporary vellum (soiling), 2-inch strip torn from rear cover fore-edge, extremities rubbed, front hinge cracking; preliminaries browned, else textblock very good. Attributed to Compagnoni according to Clemente Merlo's preface to the reproduction of this edition which was published in 1932..... More
New York: Facts on File, [1982]. Second printing, 8vo, pp. xii, 355; stamp-mark bottom edges, slight tears and scuffing in jacket; very good or better. Covers terminology from the sports of baseball, basketball, boxing, hockey, tennis, football, soccer, golf and bowling with a brief history on each sport. More
Mexico [City]: Instituto Nacional de Antheropologia e Historia, 1942. Thick, small 4to, pp. [3]-37, [1], [44], plus 430, [1] leaves; original printed wrappers bound in contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; near fine. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate with a Newberry release stamp inside the front wrapper and an Ayer accession label..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975, 1985. Second edition, first Dorset printing, thick 8vo, pp. xx, 998; text in triple columns, illustrations; original cloth in blue dust jacket; fine. More
London: for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., 1880. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 109, [1], [2] blank, 21 (Seventh Annual Report of the English Dialect Society for the year 1879), [1]; original blue printed wrappers, worn along the edges, but generally very good. This copy with the ownership..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xviii, 467;xix, [1], 551;over 50 illustrations; as new set in the dust jackets. Volume I: General-Purpose Dictionaries; Volume II: Specialized Dictionaries. Among the distinguished contributors are Allen Reddick, Sidney Landau, Richared Bailey, Anatoly Liberman, Julie Coleman, and A. P. Cowie..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975-1983. First edition, fourth (1979) impression of Vol. 1, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxxxi, [1], 396; lxiii, [1], 685; original boards in dust jackets, minor wear to jacket edges, else very good. Vol. I by Cowie and Mackin only. More
Burlington, N.J. published by D. Allinson & Co., 1813. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiv, 84, & unpaginated lexicon in double column, plus chronological tables and errata; minor spotting and staining, full original reversed calf, red gilt-lettered morocco spine label; hinges cracked, extremities rubbed and worn, else good; contemporary ownership..... More
Burlington, N.J. published by D. Allinson & Co., 1813. First edition, large, thick 8vo, pp. xiv, 84, & unpaginated lexicon in double column, plus chronological tables and errata; full contemporary blind-tooled calf; front joint starting; with the later stamp of the G. & C. Merriam Company (publishers of Webster's dictionary..... More
Boston: Charles Ewer, 1819. Thick 8vo, pp. 1006, [9] subscribers' list; text in double column; full contemporary calf, rebacked in inoffensive maroon leatherette, original morocco label preserved; a good, sound copy. Crabb (1778-1851) "commenced the study of medicine, but being unable to endure the dissecting room resigned his medical studies..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1837. Apparently the fifth American edition, 8vo, pp. [2] ads, lxiii, [1], 535; extremities rubbed, but still a good, sound copy in publisher's full sheep, red morocco label on spine. This edition not in Vancil and not found in the OCLC database. American Imprints 43886..... More
London: printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [et al.], 1826. Fourth edition of the most famous of all dictionaries of synonyms, 4to, pp. lxiv, 688; uncut; text in double column; 20th century half tan calf antique over marbled boards; nice copy. Crabb (1778-1851) was the successful compiler of several German..... More
London: printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [et al.], 1826. Fourth edition of the most famous of all dictionaries of synonyms, 4to, pp. lxiv, 688; text in double column; 20th century quarter brown calf antique over gray speckled paper-covered boards; near fine. Crabb (1778-1851) was the successful compiler of several..... More
London: published (for the proprietors) by Henry George Collins, 1849. First edition, 2 volumes, thick large 8vo, engraved titles and frontis, text in double column; a near fine copy in contemporary half black calf. A rather uninspired effort in spite of its having been based on Johnson and Walker; the..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1981]. 10th printing, 4 volumes, 4to, text in double columns; original red cloth, gilt spines; fine set. More
London: Printed for the Authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell [and 3 others], 1764. 3 volumes, folio; Vol. I: [†]2 a-d2 B-7K2; Vol. II: [A]-7Z2; Vol. III: [†]1 A1 B-7B2; wood-engraved frontispiece,151 plates and maps, including 2 folding; early 19th-century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red..... More
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1972. First edition, large 4to, pp. x, 485; text printed in double columns; original tan cloth (a bit soiled) printed in red; ex-Media Center, Plant City High School with usual markings, previous owner's rubber stamp ex-libris on ffep; good and sound. More
London: A, Cruden, J. Buckland [et al.], 1769. 4to, pp. [12] & unpaginated lexicon in triple column; engraved frontispiece portrait; contemporary full calf, brown label on spine; joints tender, leather partially stripped on boards, head and tail of spine perished, a good, sound copy. A massive and respected work by..... More
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, [1980]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 390; of The Language Library series; a fine copy in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine, orange dust jacket (spine a bit faded). More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1977]. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. [12], 745; original boards in pink dust jacket (a bit soiled); jacket edges slightly shelf worn, else very good. Forms part of the Language Library, edited by Eric Partridge and Simeon Potter. More
Aukland: Whitcombe & Tombs, [ca. 1920s]. 12mo, pp. 380; publisher's red pictorial cloth (ink stains), spine faded, corners a bit frayed; lacking front flyleaf, contemporary signatures on front pastedown endpaper. 2 copies in OCLC, both in New Zealand. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1885. First edition, large 8vo, pp. iv, 603; text in double column; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine a bit cocked, very minor shelf wear, else very good and sound. Vancil, p. 66. More
London & New York: Routledge, [2006]. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xvii, {1], 1076, [2]; [6], [1077]-2189, [1]; generally a fine set in the dust jackets. Overall, the 9th edition of Partridge, and by far the most comprehensive. More
