Baltimore, Menasha, [et al.]: December, 1925-2004. All 8vo, 80 issues in all, and the property of Frederick Cassidy, editor of The Dictionary of American Regional English, many with his ownership signature, and some with notes (mostly check-marks). Includes early nos. 2-4 of volume I, nos. 1, 3, and 4 of... More

Firenze: Listino Prezzi e Ordinazioni, 1988. 8vo, pp. x, 151; original tan printed wrappers, fine. Errata leaf bound in back. No. 5 of the Quaderni dell'Istituto di Linguistica dell'Universita di Urbino. An annotated bibliography of Cædmon (fl. ca. 657-ca. 684), the earliest Northumbrian poet whose name is known, thanks to... More

Reykjavík: Stofnun Sigurðar Nordals, 1997. First edition, 8vo, pp. 152; fine in original gray printed wrappers. More

Oslo: Novus, 1995. First edition, 8vo, pp. 323, [1]; fine in original gray pictorial wrappers. Volume I in the Studia Nordica series. Texts in English and German. More

Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1986. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 335; charts and facsimiles throughout, text printed from typescript; original brown wrappers printed in black and white; near fine. Lexicographica Series Maior 15. Biographical study of the editor of the first French language dictionary, the Dictionnaire françois, Geneva, 1680. More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, 228; University of California publications in linguistics volume 69; maps, graphs, index; minor edgewear, else very good in yellow printed wrappers. More

Philadelphia: D. G. Brinton, 1882. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], vi, [2], 9-279, [1]; title page printed in red and black; later brown library cloth, gilt lettering direct on spine; good and sound. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate, with a Newberry Library bookplate, a small rubberstamp at the base of the... More

Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 693, [3]; very good in original red and white cloth. Issued as vol. 38 in the Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory. More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 186; text illustrations; original cloth in plum printed dust jacket; shallow chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text; interior fine. "Language that makes a difference--the subtleties of sounds, words, meanings--explained by a leading British novelist" - jacket cover. More

Basileæ: Ludovic König, 1621. Small, thick 8vo, pp. [16], 960, [71]; full 18th-century vellum, gilt spine, black morocco spine label, manuscript imprint information added to spine foot; a number of leaves browned and/or foxed, else a very good, sound copy. Buxtorf was a leading Hebrew scholar of the late 16th... More

Basileæ: Ludovici König, 1631. Editio quarta & ultima, 8vo, pp. [16] 974, [78]; ):(8 A-Zz8 AA-2V8; woodcut printer's mark, initials, and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title; spine considerably darkened; slightly later (1682) ownership inscription on front free endpaper, ink notes and blots throughout, most notably to... More

Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 301; being volume 53 in the publisher's Topics in English Linguistics series; fine throughout in original blue laminate boards. More

London: Thomas Martin, 1788. 12mo, pp. [2], 203; engraved portrait frontispiece of Carew; full contemporary sheep, red morocco label; small, scallop-size chip from the fore-margine of the title page, prelims a little foxed, else a very good, sound copy. An interesting piece of Americana, first published in 1745. "For misdemeanors... More