Prepositions and particles in English. A discourse-functional account
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xii, 219, [1]; full blue buckram gilt; fine. More
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xii, 219, [1]; full blue buckram gilt; fine. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1941. 8vo, pp. xviii, 431; original cloth in green price-clipped dust jacket; jacket edges quite chipped and worn without affecting text; added gilt paper label, "See the back cover of the book for Harpercrest binding specifications" mounted to front cover and spine; cloth spine faintly..... More
Lyon: les frères Périsse & Pierre Cellier, 1768. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 484, [4]; [4], 585, [1]; full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, spines rubbed and worn, joints a little cracked but otherwise a good, sound copy. The author is described on the title as being a...... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1852. Thick 4to, pp. [4], 38, xlvii, [1], 1136; 2 facsimile plates (showing 3 facsimiles) on tinted paper; recent full beige cloth, black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; minor spotting, some dampstaining in the corners of the final leaves; overall appearance is fine. An important..... More
London: Winchester Publications Ltd., [1949]. First edition, 8vo, 3 vols in 1, pp. xv, [1], 192; [2], 174; [2], 173, [1]; original black cloth, gilt title on spine, gilt worn, textblock a little shaken but holding solid, good. This copy with a presentation from Partidge "To the Principal Inspector of..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1963. Third printing of the second edition, small 8vo, pp. 20; original green printed wrappers. This copy inscribed "To Bob Moore - This little distillation from a large book; O.P. some two years now, worse luck! From Eric Partridge 11 Sept. 1974." Partridge has also annotated the..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [1959]. First reprint of the second edition, 8vo, pp. 20; original printed green wrappers; very good.This copy inscribed "To the Opies' - so conjoined that one has to leave them paired - with the author's appreciation and admiration, from Eric Partridge 17-ii-1961." More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, [1963]. Second reprint of the second edition, 8vo, pp. 20; original printed green wrappers; very good. This copy inscribed "Ken Spelman - not that he needs it (he doesn't) - with compliments, E.P. 20/7/1965." More
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1965. 8vo, 491pp.; a few small chips in the jacket else near fine. First published in 1949, this, the revised edition, contains two new chapters: one, "Self-Designation," and the other entitled "Language and Psychology," More
Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1779. First American edition after the second London edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 320; contemporary full speckled calf, upper cover rehinged; 19th century ownership inscription on flyleaf, flyleaves with corners torn, occassional foxing; good or better. The first French grammar published in the US. Alston XII..... More
New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1810. 8vo, xii & 334pp., foxed & browned, joints cracked, extremities worn, general rubbing. An acceptable copy in contemporary tree calf gilt, red morocco label on spine. More
Utrecht: Stichting Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders, [1980]. 2 volumes, 4to; typescript; original printed orange wrappers, sunning, boards of the Tekstboek volume detached with crude tape repair, previous owner's pencil notes throughout. The first two volumes of a series of text books for Dutch language students. More
[N.p. The Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor Company, 1913]. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 57; original green cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; some edge wear; contemporary ownership inscription on front and rear endpapers; very good and sound. 5 copies in OCLC as of March, 2014. More
[Brussells printed:] London: and to be had also in Brussells, at M. Lamaire, 1796. New edition enlarged ... and enriched with many new rules and remarks, very proper to remove those difficulties that still retard the progress of foreigners. 12mo, pp. [1] ads, x, [9]-486; parallel titles in French and..... More
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1970]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 229; original boards in orange dust jacket; fine. Forms part of the Language Library, edited by Eric Partridge and Simeon Potter. Signed and inscribed by Partridge on front free endpaper. More
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. 12mo, pp. xx, 305, [3] (pub ads); decorative endpapers, front hinge cracked, library sticker on front pastedown and stamps on preliminaries, spine ends lightly chipped, else very good in original blue cloth with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. More
New York: Jan. 4, 1841. Folio broadside, approx. 19" x 13", text in triple column, top half of the broadside announcing a series of lectures on English grammar in various locations in New York, and classes "for a term of years" on grammar at the Park Grammar School. Dates, times..... More
München: Max Hueber Verlag, 1970. First edition; 8vo, pp. 267; diagrams throughout; original yellow printed wrappers (very faint soiling), green text, spine and edges toned, interior fine. Volume I, 1 of the series Commentationes Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae. Text in German. Inscribed by the author. More
Washington, D.C. Institute for the Study of Man, 1999. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [6], 317; [6], [321]-641; fine in original printed yellow wrappers. Volume3 I: Language Change and Phonology; volume II: Grammatican Universals and Typology. Issued as monographs 30 and 31 in The Journal of Indo-European Studies. More
London: Longmans & Co., 1869. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xx, [3]-127, [1]; original maroon cloth (a bit soiled), gilt stamped cover; extremities a bit rubbed and worn, interior fine. Contains Hints for Comparative Translation, Remarks on Thucydides, Nonsense Verses, Helps to Composition, etc. "Re-printed from 'Old Price's Remains,' with..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1852. First edition, 12mo, pp. xiv, 189; original blue cloth (spotted); with an advertisement slip tipped-in at title. A concise grammar written for the use of Scottish students by a professor of language and literature in the Naval and Military Academy. Rampini was also a fellow..... More
Helsinki: Suomalais-Urilainen Seura, 1982. First edition, 8vo, pp. 295, [1]; printed from typescript; facsimile example of one of Ramstedt's etymologies in his handwriting; near fine in original printed green wrappers. Issued as no. 182 in the publisher's Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne series. More
Copenhagen: J. H. Schultz, 1830. First edition in English, small 8vo, pp. xii, 184; original blue paper-covered boards, neatly rebacked; a little foxing but generally a very good, sound copy. Edited by Benjamin Thorpe. More
New York [et al.]: Lang Publishing, Incorporated, [1992]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xliii, [1], 416, [2]; a few tables and illustrations; generally fin in original laminate boards. Issued as volume I in the Berkeley Models of Grammars series. More
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995. 8vo, pp. vi, 354; diagrams throughout; original tan cloth, fine. First volume only; volume 2 published in 1997. Forms part of the Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, no. 83. More