Padova, Italy: Unipress, [1997]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], vii, [1], 420; portrait frontispiece, generaloly fine in original white printed wrappers. Quaderni del Dipartimento di linguistica, Studi no. 4. More
[Milano]: Cisalpino-Goliardica, [1979]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 139; fine copy in original black pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 415, [1]; 2 maps (1 double-page), tables in the text; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. "This book presents twenty-six essays by one of the great Chinese linguists of our time. They cover over a half-century of..... More
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, [1970]. Second printing, 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1], 846, [2]; full blue cloth, gilt title on spine; edges foxed, slightly musty, very good in very good, soiled dust jacket. Yuen Ren Chao was a linguist, poet, and composer. His Grammar of spoken Chinese..... More
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[Orleans: imp. Georges Jacob, n.d., 1883?]. 8vo, pp. 8; preliminary material in French; text in Spanish and Tojolabal in parallel columns; printed presentation slip ("Avec tous les compliments de l'Auteur, de Charencey") laid in; very good in library boards, black lettering on spine. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate, with an Ayer..... More
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1968. Facsimile reprint, 8vo, pp. xvi, 166; original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, green endpapers; gutters of endpapers foxed, else fine. Facsimile of the London: Trübner & Co., 1868 edition. More
Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1974. 8vo, pp. 328, [4]; text in Russian with summaries in Georgian and English; two folding charts and folding map of the Caucasus; printed paper wrappers; wrappers a little creased, else very good and sound. 31 brief papers. More
Pisa: Universita degli Studi di Pisa, 1993. Small, thick folio, pp. [2], 384; fine in original red printed wrappers. Doctoral dissertation in linguistics. More
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1996. First edition, 8vo, pp. 141; very good copy in original blue printed wrappers. No. 18 in the publisher's Monographien zur Sprachwissenschaft series. More
Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1978. First edition; 8vo, pp. 296; black and white illustrations; original cream wrappers, spine toned, edges a bit soiled, else fine. More
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985. 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 308; original blue and yellow pictorial wrappers printed in black and white; edges very faintly faded, else fine. Benjamins Paperbacks no. 2. More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., [1956]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 258; a fine copy in orig. green cloth gilt and a very good dust jacket marred only by a few chips out at spine ends and some soiling to back panel, not price clipped. The idioms explained--1,015 of..... More
London: Hafner Publishing Company, 1955. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii-[xx], 210; original cloth in peach printed dust jacket, spine a bit browned, else very good. The best generic work on the subject. More
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
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953. Large 8vo, pp. [4], 290, full page map in text; green cloth library binding, gilt title on spine, speckled top edge, original paper wrappers bound in, a gift copy with "compliments of the author," written on the front wrapper; fine. An..... 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
Cambridge: University Press in association with the West African Languages Survey, and the Institute of African Studies, Idaban, 1969. First published in 1965 and here reprinted with corrections, 8vo, pp. xii, 108; full-p. linguistic map; fine copy in the dust jacket. Includes bibliography. Issued as no. 4 in the West..... More
[London]: Reprinted from Journal of the African Society, 1931. 8vo, pp. 148-163 [i.e.16 pages]; original white printed wrappers, very light occasional foxing throughout; fine. More
[London]: Reprinted from the Journal of the African Society, 1914. 8vo, pp. 152-166; original white printed wrappers (a bit soiled, ink stain), spine torn at various points, interior fine. Society notices and list of officers printed on wrapper versos. A short overview of the 3 sub-groups of the Ganda language..... More
[London: Reprinted from Journal of the African Society, ca. 1931]. 8vo, pp. 499-506; original white printed wrappers (a bit soiled), mostly fine. Cover text reads: "Reprinted from Journal of the African Society". A brief essay on the recent publication history of works on Bantu languages. Reprint not in OCLC. More
London: Cassell & Company, 1924. 8vo, pp. xii, 150, [2]; contemporary full black morocco, upper cover and spine ruled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; extremities rubbed, upper cover a bit damp stained; joints expertly reinforced, else interior mostly fine. 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
[Cambridge and New York]: Cambridge University Press, [2001]. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 272; near fine in like dust jacket, boards very slightly bowed. "Netspeak": is it a new linguistic medium? Crystal says "yes." 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
