Uppsala: Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 12, [2], [83]-121, [1], [3]-55, [1], 126; fine in original green printed wrappers. English abstract and thesis of Swedish doctoral dissertation at Uppsala University, 1986. Presentation copy, with an inscription from the author at the top..... More
London: Christian Literature Society for India, 1901. Slim 8vo, pp. viii, 166; publisher's brown cloth (some soiling), gilt-lettered spine; top 2 inches of spine starting to detach, ends frayed, edges show some shelf wear; endpapers browned, slightly later (1916) ownership signature on ffep, else interior very good. More
Berlin: Nordeuropa-Institut der Humboldt-Universität, 2006. First edition, 8vo, pp. 386; publisher's complimentary slip laid in; fine copy in original gray printed wrappers. More
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, University Press, 1886. First edition, large square 4to, pp. 26; 4 maps; light wear but a near fine, unopened copy in original cream wrappers printed in red. Plain salmon-colored outer wrappers (torn and detached) has the ownership stamp of American ethnologist and linguist James C...... More
London & New York: Routledge, [1995]. First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. x, 186; fine copy in the dust jacket. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. 4to, pp. xii, 365; original green printed wrappers (back cover lightly soiled), extremities a bit rubbed and curled, else a very good copy. Forms part of the Yale Linguistics Series. More
Helsingfors: Akademiska Bokhandeln, 1973. 8vo, pp. [4], 243, [1]; text in English and Swedish; original printed wrappers, light toning to covers, fine. Inscribed to the Minnesota linguist Anatoly Liberman from Christen Kummelstedt on title page. More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1897. Small 8vo, pp. 392, [4]; charts; original olive cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; spine darkened, minor spot of damage to spine foot; offsetting to endpapers from previously removed dust jacket, else interior fine. More
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987. Slim 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 148; original red printed boards, small stain on textblock fore-edge, else fine. Erratum to be inserted after p. 147 laid in. Collection of 10 papers read at the seventh triennial World Congress of l'Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée; text..... More
London: The Champlain Society for the Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1949. Limited edition for subscribers only, of which this is no. 116, large 8vo, pp. cv, [1], 352, x; one black and white plate, text illustrations printed in red and black throughout; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g.; boards a...... More
London: The Champlain Society for the Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1949. Subscribers' only limited edition of which this is no. 621, large 8vo, pp. ciii, [1], 352, x; one black and white plate, text illustrations printed in red and black throughout; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, t.e.g.; spine lightly faded..... More
Plovdiv: Paisii Hilendarski, 1994. 8vo, pp. 213, [3]; text in Bulgarian; printed paper wrappers, folding map laid in; light soiling to covers, a few pen marks in text block; good and sound. More
Los Angeles: Program in Indo-European Studies, 1999. 8vo, pp. [4], 331; fine in original printed yellow wrappers backed in black cloth. Articles by the editors, Raimo Anttila, Christopher Wilhelm, and Jay Friedman. Volume 2 did not appear until 2003. More
Washington, D.C. Carnegie Institution, 1921. 12mo, pp. 64; frontispiece and 2 plates, ex-Iowa State, with their bookplate marked withdrawn, withdrawn rubberstamp on title-p., preface, 1 plate, and 1 internal page; all else good and sound in later green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. More
Austin: University of Texas, 1938. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 490; 324 "plates," (in fact, illustrations in the text) and 283 figures in the text; original cream printed wrappers a bit soiled, else very good. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry release stamp inside the upper cover; no..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. 8vo, pp. 158; original boards in red, green, and brown printed price-clipped dust jacket (minor soiling); light shelf wear to jacket edges; previous bookseller's ticket on front pastedown, glue stain to rfep, else interior very good. More
Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2003. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 314; portrait frontispiece; fine copy in original laminate pictorial boards. Includes an 8-p. Basbøll bibliography at the back. More
Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1959. Third edition, sixth (1978) printing, 8vo, pp. xxxv, [1], 323; illustrations by Merle Gish and the author, text in double columns; original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; light wear to jacket edges, else fine. More
Oslo: Novus Forlag, 1997. First edition, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. 180; fine in original white and red pictorial wrappers. Fifteen papers by scholars from Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Russia. The texts are largely in English and German. More
Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press, [1990]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [3], 646; near fine in the dust jacket. More
Cambridge: M. I.T. Press, [1983]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 186; near fine in the dust jacket, jacket with spine sunned. More
[Paris]: Flammarion, [1980]. First French edition, 8vo, pp. 175, [5]; pages slightly tined, else near fine in original white printed wrappers. More
London: Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, 1989. 8vo, unpaged; facsimiles, text printed from typescript; original cream wrappers printed in red and black; light edge wear, previous owner has circled a few items in ink, else very good. Catalogue of 490 items, mostly English, relating to language, education, and etiquette. More
Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], vi, 236; printed from typescript; fine in original gray printed wrappers. Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, University of Chicago, 1990. More
Bergen: A. S. John Griegs Boktrykkeri, 1958. 8vo, pp. 41, [1]; text in Norwegian; orange paper wrappers; corners bumped, edges of covers sunned, near fine. Historisk-antikvarisk rekke Nr. 2. A survey of minimal word pairs with tonal opposition in Norwegian "Bokmal" in order to show the numerical relationship between different..... More
