25 magic steps to word power
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1959. 8vo, pp. 183; original pale grey cloth, spine stamped in black and white; spine foot lightly foxed, else fine. More
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1959. 8vo, pp. 183; original pale grey cloth, spine stamped in black and white; spine foot lightly foxed, else fine. More
S. Fernando, La Unión I.F. Imprenta Batallador, [1910]. 8vo, pp. 11, [1]; original printed wrappers bound in modern green cloth; text browned, else very good. Cockfighting rules and regulations in the Philippine language of Iloko (or Ilokano), an Austronesian language. The caption title reads: "Naarian á bilin ti 21 ti..... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, [1972]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 216; fine copy in the dust jacket. More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968. First edition; 12mo, pp. 171, [1]; original white pictorial wrappers (some soiling), some shelf wear, bottom of spine beginning to detach, edges and corners bumped; interior fine. No. 5 of the series "Le Linguiste" and forms part of the Collection SUP. More
Malmo: Department of Linguistics, Lund University, 1978. 8vo, pp. [2], 301, [3]; graphs and maps in text; gray printed paper wrappers, spine creased, wrappers toned and rubbed, text clean and sound, very good. With articles on Sentence Prosody, Word Prosody, Systems and Interference, in multiple languages. No. XIII in the..... More
[Lund]: Lund University, 1973. First edition, small folio, pp. [6], 119; original black cloth-backed red paper wrappers. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the title-page. No. 8 in the series Working papers / Phonetics Laboratory, Department of General Linguistics, Lund University. More
Lund: LiberLäromedel/Gleerup, 1977. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 116; printed from typescript; fine in original gray wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title-page. Travaux de l'Institut de linguistique de Lund, no. 11. More
Hamburg: Helmut Buske, [1976]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 287, [1]; printed from typescript; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Hamburger phonetische Beiträge, no. 18. More
Leiden: Boekdrukkerij v/h. L. van Nifterik Hz. 1917. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 130, [2]; laid in, as issued, is a full octavo gathering of Stellingen (i.e. theses); original green printed wrappers, extremities faded to brown; very good. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry release stamp on the verso..... More
Wein: Druk der Osterreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1932. 8vo, pp. 169, [1]; text in German; 1 folding plate; printed paper wrappers; wrappers toned and edgeworn, library stamps on title page, ownership stamp of H. v. Petrikovits on upper wrapper, good. Mitteilungen aus de papyrussammlung de Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Papyrus erzherzog rainer) neue..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1939. 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 485; original brick cloth (faintly dampstained) stamped in black and gilt, extremities a bit worn, previous bookseller's ticket mounted to ffep; interior very good. Copyright date 1938. More
Bloomington, Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1976. First published edition, 4to, pp. iii, [1], 170; printed from typescript. Fine in original green wrappers. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. More
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, [2004]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 321, [2]; illustrated; fine copy in original yellow, gray and black laminate boards. More
New York & London: D. Appleton & Co., 1932. First edition, 8vo, pp. xlvi, 487; folding color linguistics map; generally fine in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. More
Boston: Ginn & Company, 1892. Small, slim 8vo, pp. vi, 42; illustrations; original red cloth (some dampstaining), covers blind tooled, gilt-lettered spine; ex-Xavier University Library with usual markings, spine ends a bit worn, interior very good. Forms part of the International Modern Language Series. More
London: printed for S. Hooper, 1790. 12mo, pp. viii, [324]; 57, [3]; including the glossary, supplement, proverbs, and superstitions, includes 1 leaf of Hooper ads for other Grose titles; original blue paper-covered boards, title in ink on cream paper spine; front cover nearly loose, spine soiled. In a new blue..... More
Göppingen: Kümmerle, 2000. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, 448; x, [449]-773, [2]; portrait frontispiece; fine copy in original green printed wrappers. More
New York: Philsophical Library, 1950. 8vo, pp. v, [1], 160; original cloth in grey printed mylar-protected dust jacket, jacket a bit worn, spine browned; a very good, sound copy. "Shows howt he multiple derivation of the English vocabulary--Teutonic, Greek, Latin and French--erects a barrier more effective than wealth and status..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 424; text diagrams; original cloth in brown dust jacket printed in white; minor wear to jacket with small, 1/2-inch tear in the middle of upper jacket hinge, previous bookseller's sticker on back jacket cover; interior fine. Minnesota Studies in the..... More
[Reykjavík]: Iðunn, [1973]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 132; fine in original blue printed wrappers. More
High Wycombe, Bucks: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1987. First edition, 1000 copies printed in Madras, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 189, [1]; lexicon in double column; a little bit of fading along the spine and the top of the front board, 3 rubberstamp red stars on front free endpaper; all else..... More
[Reykjavík]: Menningarsjóðs og Þjóðvinafélagsins, [1972]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 235; fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. Anthology of poems from 45 poets in Icelandic. More
Berlin: Verlag fur Wissenschaft un Bildung un die Herausgeber, 1993. 8vo, pp. 128; text in English and German; yellow printed paper wrappers, fine; Articles on Irish perspectives on Heimdallr by William Sayers; Altislandischer Gelehrter Urgeschichte anderer Teil by Heinz Klingenberg; and, Eine textimmanente interpretation der Jungsigurddichtung by Edgar Haimerl... More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1975. First edition thus, 8vo, pp. 254; text charts and maps; original boards in blue price-clipped dust jacket, fine. Forms part of the Language Library, edited by Eric Partridge and Simeon Potter. More
[København]: Gyldendal, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. 58, [3]; text in double column; previous owner's name on half-title, else very good in original blue printed wrappers. More