København: Glydendalske, 1938. First edition (3000 copies printed); 8vo, pp. 245, [2]; portrait frontispiece and 4 plates; near fine in original brown cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Most of the edition was bound in wrappers. The famous philologist's autobiography. More
Copenhagen: Det Schubotheske Forlag, 1897-1899. 8vo, pp. 633, [3]; text in Danish; two plates, one folding; green printed wrappers; upper wrapper loose, textblock split into two sections and spine worn, fair. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1924. 8vo, pp. 448; original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends chipped, else a very good, sound copy. Previous bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1854. First edition, 8vo, pp. 256; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine sunned, library pocket removed from inside back cover, old accession numbers on spine partially eradicated; good and sound. A reprint was issued in Milwaukee in 1948, and another in New York in..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 443; black and white photographic portrait frontispiece, title page printed in red and black; original cloth (some dampstaining) in pale grey printed dust jacket; spine quite toned to brown, shallow chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text, a...... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. 8vo, pp. x, [2], 257, [1]; black and white photographic illustrations; original cloth-backed boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket; cloth spine a bit dampstained, else a near fine copy. Jacket cover subtitle: "Using creative power of children's personal images to teach reading and writing" More
Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2009. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 284; two two-page color maps; printed paper wrappers; fine. Includes a DVD with a facsimile of Douglas Carstairs' "A Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or spoken language of Amoy" and the "Supplement" by Thomas Barclay. An outline of..... More
Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007. 8vo, pp. xxxix, [3], 360; text in double column; full blue cloth; fine. Included is a DVD facsimile of "A Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy" by Rev. Carstairs Douglas with the "Supplement" by Thomas Barclay. More
London: printed for G.G. and J. Robinson & R.H. Evans, 1799. First collected edition, 6 volumes (2 supplemental volumes were published in 1801 and are not included here), large 4to, engraved portrait after Joshua Reynolds, 59 engraved plates (12 of them on 6 sheets, plus 1 folding and 1 double-p.)..... More
Washington, D. C. Institute for the Study of Man, 2002. 8vo, pp. x, 191; fine in original yellow wrappers printed in black. More
Madison, Wisconsin: United States Armed Forces Institute, [ca. 1970s]. 4to, pp. 51; tables and charts, text printed from typescript; original green wrappers (a bit soiled), faint foxing along edges, general light shelf wear, interior fine. At head of title: "A 676.3, A 677.3". Cover subtitle: "To Be Used With Basic..... More
'S-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co., 1962. Slim 8vo, pp. 81, [3]; tables in text; later green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; very good. Janua Linguarum nr. XXIV. More
Thessaloniki: [n.p.], 1963. 8vo, pp. xii,117, [1]; text in French, printed gray wrappers; wrappers sunned, text clean and sound, very good. An analyzed collection of Homeric usages focusing on φιλος, έτης, θεραπων, and ξεΐ. Ap. 9 of the E biliotheke tou philologou series. More
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991. 8vo, pp. [6], 140, [9]; text in German, yellow printed paper wrappers; small chip to lower corner, else fine. More
Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991. 8vo, pp. vi, 140, 84, [10]; two facsimile pages, text in German; green printed paper wrappers; fine. Only the introduction of Eustathius' commentary on Pindar has survived. More
[Paris? Librairie Orientalist Paul Geuthner? 1923?]. 8vo, pp. [4], 436; original black cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover; very good, sound copy of an important and esteemed work by the noted sinologist and professor at Goteborg. This edition without place of publication or date, and possibly an early..... More
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1997. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 552; xii, [2], 555-1041, [1]; decorative laminate boards; fine. "The goal of this publication is to provide a summary of what is currently known about the phonology of selected Asian and African languages ... in an informative..... More
New Jersey: Humanities Press Inc., 1978. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 649; original cloth in red, yellow, and white dust jacket (some soiling) printed in red and black; some wear to jacket, minor foxing to jacket flap edges, previous bookseller's price tag on front pastedown, else very a...... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1940. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 429; tables; original red cloth lettered in black; near fine. More
Saint Paul: Rulon-Miller Books, 1990. Edition ltd. to 100 copies (this, no. 32), 8vo, pp. 61, [3]; photographic facsimile tipped in, original green cloth, slipcase, paper label on spine. Printed by hand in red and black on handmade Umbria Bianco paper by Emily Mason Strayer of the Kutenai Press, South..... More
London: Hall and Virtue, 1855. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 42, 57, 30; contemporary brown blind-tooled cloth (upper fore-edge a bit damp stained), upper cover lettered in gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; edges and spine slightly faded, small crack in the cloth along the front joint; textblock fine. The second section..... More
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1923. Small 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 174, [3]; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a bit worn, else near fine. Forms part of the series Our Debt to Greece and Rome. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1915. 8vo, pp. 12; Publications of the Philological Society VII; light wear and soiling to extremities, else a very good copy in original green printed wrappers. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 181; fine copy in the dust jacket. Recent models of dialect contact, notably in the work of Trudgill, Chambers, James Milroy, and Labov have stressed the importance of the notions of salience, simplification, linguistic complexity, and the speech community in..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1977. Slim 8vo, pp. v, [1], 100; original pink and black printed wrappers; general light shelf wear, else very good. Studies in Semiotics Vol. 9. More
