Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1989. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 462, [3] ads; fine in original pink wrappers. Issued as no. 6 in the publisher's Current Issues in Linguistics Theory series. More
Tokyo: Kenkyusha Ltd., 1958. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 419, including 9-page "A Bibliography of the Works of Takanobu Otsuka;" photographic frontispiece portrait of Otsuka dated February 1957; original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, the slightest of wear to the extremities and bowing to front cover, a...... More
Catania: Studio Editoriale Moderno, 1930. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 230, [2]; text in Italian, printed paper wrappers; light soiling to covers, paper starting to tone but otherwise clean and sound, very good. More
Cambridge: University Press, [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 234; a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. First edition, 8vo, x & 304pp., language and author indices, as new in the jacket. Includes the texts of nine essays on obscure grammatical topics. More
Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, [1991]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 280; portrait frontispiece; fine copy in original pictorial brown cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Festschrift for the famed linguist and runic scholar. More
[Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan Press, 1953. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, 53; 31 full-page maps on 32 plates; a fine copy in near very good dust jacket a little soiled and nicked along edges. More
Meisenheim Glan: Anton Hain KG. 1956. 8vo, pp. 183, [1]; tan printed paper wrappers; wrappers toned, writing on upper cover, very good. Together with the same text published as the author's dissertation, dated 1954 and with a number of editorial annotations. A study of Lucian. More
Göteborg: Centrum för metriska studier, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. 203, [5]; fine in original white printed wrappers. Text in Swedish and Danish with summaries in English. Skrifter utgivna av Centrum för Metriska Studier, vol. 6. More
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1956. First edition, 8vo, pp.[2], 108, [1]; very good in original beige printed wrappers. Issued as Volume 102, part 5 in the publisher's series Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. More
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1978. 4to, pp. xv, [3], 367; text printed from typescript; original red cloth (a few faint smudges), upper cover lettered in gilt, black gilt-lettered spine label; near fine. More
Moscow: Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1962. 8vo, pp. 269, [3]; text in Russian; green printed boards backed in tan cloth; corners and edges rubbed, ownership signature of George Smalley on endpaper; good and sound. More
Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1989. First edition, thick 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 739; finje in original white and yellow printed wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Düwel on the title-page. Beiträge zur Nordischen Philologie, no. 18. More
Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1973. Reprint edition, 8vo, 2 vols. in 1, pp. [6], 301; [iii]-vi, 422; fine in the original black cloth, gilt spine. A reprint of "New Edition, By a Missionary of the Oblates," originally published in 1878. More
Leningrad: Nauka, 1972. 8vo, pp. 186, [2]; text in Russian; orange and white printed paper wrappers; small closed tear on fore edge of cover and title leaf, not affecting text, light toning to paper, very good. Inscribed to University of Minnesota linguist Anatoly Liberman. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. 8vo, pp. xx1, [3], 612, 32 ads; original brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine; spine ends cracked, hinges starting; bookplate, the occasional pencil annotation or underlining in the text but on the whole, a good, sound copy. Extensive work, with sections on nicknames, surnames of..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. xxv, [3], 612, 32 ads; orig. brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine; spine ends chipped, hinges starting; good and clean., worn and dented edges, else good. Extensive work, with sections on nicknames, surnames of occupation, surnames of office, patronymic surnames, etc...... More
Zagreb: Skolska Knjiga, 1979. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 527, [1]; text in Croatian; blue cloth with silver detail; touch of sunning to spine, little bit of foxing on endpapers, near fine. The first modern grammar of Literary Croatian. It was banned during the Soviet Era as nationalistic. More
London: Sheldon Press, [1932]. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], ix, [1], 213, [1]; 4 leaves of tables inserted, lexicon in double column, joints worn; a good, sound copy in original blue cloth lettered in black on spine. Shona-English, English-Shona. More
Amsterdam: Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, 1981. First edition, 4to, pp. 203, [1]; text in Dutch; full red cloth, fine in slightly faded dust jacket. A joke and puzzle book about entertaining peculiarities of the Dutch language. More
Amsterdam: Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, 2002. 4to, pp. [4], [676]; text in Dutch; full green cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. Also with: Battus, Opperlans woordenboek. Amsterdam: Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, 2007. [7], [200], [1]; A joke and puzzle book about entertaining peculiarities of the Dutch language. It is the..... More
Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1950. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [3], x-xvi, 415, [1]; printed paper wrappers; upper wrapper perished, lower starting, spine chipped, owner's signature on flyleaf, one leaf chipped at bottom edge from contact with tape, not affecting text, textblock clean and sound, good. More
Jalis Saxonum (Halle): Nuntia Halensia, 1933. 8vo, pp. [8], 88, [2]; orange printed paper wrappers; ex-library, wrappers lightly soiled with some residue likely from a spine label, library stamps on title and internal page, text clean and sound, good. More
Roma: Il Calamo, 1992. First edition, 8vo, pp. 237, [9]; 4 illustrations on rectos and versos of 2 plates; spine a bit faded, else fine in original printed wrappers. Biblioteca di Ricerche Linguistiche e Filologiche, no. 33. More
London and NY: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. etc. 1867. Inaugural (i.e. first) edition, royal 8vo, pp. 126, [4] (ads); 16 stereotype plates representing the invented alphabet in handwriting and longhand; the text with ample instances of Bell's invention in type; navy pebbled cloth, gilt title on cover and spine, spine..... More
