[Bloomington]: Indiana University, 1964-5. 5 vols., 11 x 8½", text duplicated from typescript; staple-bound in green paper covers; some sunning to covers, else fine. Fascicles cover Han Chinese, Mandarin and Chinese linguistic diversity, Kham-Thai languages, Miao-Yao, Chinese topolects such as Wu, Cantonese, Min, Hakka, Hsiang, Etc., Tibetan languages, Karen, and..... More
Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 1966. Small folio (11" x 7½"), pp. [4], 309, [3]; largely unopened; 42 plates, 11 figures in the text; original printed drab wrappers; very good, sound, and clean. Numerous articles of interest including: J. Filliozat. "Notice nécrologique: Jeanne Cuisinier (1890-1964)." - L. Berthe. "Bibliographie des œuvres..... More
[København]: Akademisk Forlag, 1967. First edition, 8vo, pp. 83; map; very good in original blue printed wrappers. More
Madras, Bangalore [et al.]: Christian Literature Society for India, 1951-47. 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. 32, 32, & 53; original decorative printed wrappers. 43rd, 31st, and 12th edition respectively, 408,000, 160,000, 36,000 copies printed. Pages a little browned, but generally very good or better. More
[Bangkok? ca. 1960s]. 12mo, pp. 32; pages uniformly toned, else fine. A short dictionary of English idioms ("apple of one's eye," "at loose ends," etc.) translated into Thai. Not in OCLC. More
1907-1956. Five 8vo pamphlets, bound in a "Strakers" spring back binder, as follows: Russell, R. C. Hunter. A collection of place-names, and their meaning, in West Sutherland and part of Wester Ross. [Plymouth, 1969] pp. [2], 14; printed paper wrappers, fine. National Library of Scotland only in OCLC. Krahe, Hans..... More
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1985. 8vo, pp. v, [1], 178, [8]; original gray printed wrappers, lower wrapper stained, else very good. Articles on desfocalizacion, the speech of the negros congos of Panama, the rule of Iberian Portuguese vowel reduction, and the first Spanish-English dictionary. More
Saint Petersburg: SPBGU, 2011. 7.75 x 5.75 in., pp. 166, [2]; text in French, English, and some German; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. The programme and abstracts from the conference, held in St. Petersburg State University August 28 - Sept. 2, 2011. More
Paris: Institute d'Ethnologgie, 1928. 2 volumes, thick 12mo, orig. cloth-backed boards, each spine incorporating a sleeve for a pencil; pencil present; covers watersatined, mild dampstain pervades text, else good or better. Pro-forma books for linguistic anthropological study, each volume with 4 folding pre-addressed envelopes on perforated stubs at the back..... More
Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1992. Tall 4to, pp. 43, [1]; color photographic illustrations throughout; pictorial staplebound self wrappers, light wear, else very good. At head of cover title: "Tradition & Innovation" More
Roma: Il Calamo, 2003. First edition, 8vo, pp. 211, [5]; fine in original brown wrappers printed in red and black. Biblioteca della Società italiana di glottologia, no. 25. Text in Italian and English. More
Stockholm: The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1962. 10.25 x 7.5 in., pp. [4], 192; 130 plates; red printed paper wrappers; small bump to bottom edge, else fine. Material on archaeology, art, and linguistics. Papers include: "Some Characteristics of the Yiin Art," Bernhard Karlgren; "The first floral patterns on Chinese..... More
Fukuoka: The English Literature and Language Society, Kyushu University, 1966. Small 8vo, pp. 168; white printed self wrappers; spine ends chipped, corners a bit dog-eared, else very good. Text in English and Japanese. Contents include Tetsuro Hayashi's "The History of English Lexicography: an introduction"; Sakito Nakano's "T.S. Eliot's The Family..... More
Kiev: Akademi Nauk Ukrainskoi RSR, 1961. 8vo, pp. 271, [1]; text in Ukrainian; gray cloth backed green boards; spine sunned, boards slightly rubbed, textblock starting to tone, but clean and sound. Ukrainian orthography. More
Cleveland: Visible Language, 1981. 8vo, pp. 120; tables, illustrations throughout; original orange printed wrappers, near fine. More
Moscow: Languages of Slavic Culture, 2009. 8vo, pp. 240; text in Russian; 8 pages of illustrations; printed boards; fine. Accompanied by audio CD. Inscribed by one of the contributors, R. F. Kasatkina on half title. A collection of transcribed recordings of the Russian language by outstanding Russian philologists of the..... More
Moscow: Nauka, 1970. 8vo, pp. 299, [1]; text in Russian; full green cloth; textblock toned but sound, ownership signature of George Smalley on endpaper, very good. On the history of verb tenses in Bulgarian. More
Niksic: Univerzitetska Rijec, 1989. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 269, [3]; text in Serbian; printed creme paper wrappers; a touch of wrinkling to the plastic film protecting wrappers, textblock clean and sound. Phonology of Serbo-Croatian. More
Tongan: Xiamen University Southern Fujian Dialect Dictionary Team and Tongan Education Bureau, 1978. 8vo, pp. 164; mimeo printed text in three columns, in Chinese with romanization, printed paper wrappers; paper toned and brittle, a little bumping to corners, still near fine. Together with: 同安农村扫盲小词典 (目录与索引) [= Short dictionary ... (contents..... More
[n.p. ca. 1820?]. Stab stitched manuscript, 9.5" x 6.5", pp. [2], 409, [1]; text in Traditional Chinese; limp cloth covers; covers soiled and roughly restitched, first leaf partially perished with loss to text, about half a dozen pages adhered to each other, one leaf chipped with some loss to text..... More
Tokyo: Hosei Daigaku, 1991. 8vo, pp. [4], 196, [2]; text in Japanese; illustrations throughout, including maps, elevations, floor plans, diagrams of joinery, etc.; glossy paper wrappers; ex-library with a few unobtrusive stamps, otherwise fine. Chapters are largely on the local architecture, with a few other articles on the local dialect..... More
[Taibei Shi?]: [publisher not identified], [1995?]. Folio, pp. [4], 673, [1]; blank flyleaf and one section of 19 pages extensively annotated, likely by a participant, in red ink; qall else very good and sound in original printed gray wrappers. Contains 34 articles in all, 15 in Chinese and 19 in..... More
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Tokyo: Linguistic Society of Japn, 1965. 8.25 x 6 in., pp. 80; text in Japanese, English and French; printed peach paper wrappers; small tidestain at bottom edge, else fine. Includes the papers: "美学と文体論," Hideo Kobayashi; "共通クキ・チン語の再構成―(1)語頭子音," Toru Ono; "The Danish vowel system," Niels Ege; "A study of some reflexive-accusative suffixes..... More
[Taipei? publisher not identified], 1969. 8.25" x 6", pp. [2], 44 (pages 11-12 misbound but present); text largely in Chinese with some English entries; full blue stiff paper wrappers; spine and edges chipped, checkmarks throughout and annotation on upper cover, good and sound. Despite the English title, not all works..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. Small 8vo, pp. xxiv, 303, [9]; text illustrations; original terra cotta blind-tooled cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine darkened and slightly cocked, edges a bit scuffed; contemporary ownership signature on ffep; interior fine. Publisher's advertisements bound in rear. More
