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[København]: Akademisk Forlag, 1967. First edition, 8vo, pp. 83; map; very good in original blue printed wrappers. 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
Paris: Institute d'Ethnologgie, 1928. 2 vols., 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 linquistic anthropological study, labeled vol. I and vol. II, each with 4 folding pre-addressed envelopes on..... 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
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: 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
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
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
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 148; original red printed wrappers (some soiling), else a good copy. More
Washington: Catholic University of America, 1927. 8vo, pp. xviii, 140, [4]; printed paper wrappers; light toning and rubbing to wrapper edges, text clean and sound, very good. A study in two parts: on the syntax from the point of view of the letters' deviations from classical norms, and a survey..... More
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1988. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 533, [3] ads; binding a little sunned, else fine in original pink cloth. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 43. More
Moscow: Nauka, 1975. 8vo, pp. 142, [2]; text in Russian; blue and white paper covers; head and tail of spine worn, corners of lower pages dogeared; text toned but clean and sound, good. More
Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, [2002]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 205; portrait frontispiece; fine copy in the dust jacket. Includes a 5-page Clayton bibliography at the back. More
Madrid: Libraria General de Victoriano Suárez, 1930. First edition limited to 150 copies (this #107), 8vo, pp. ix, [1], [2], 95, [3]; introduction, followed by a facsimile of the original 1776 manuscript; later green cloth, gilt title direct on spine, uncut with speckled top edge, original paper covers bound in;..... More
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, [2007]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8],152; fine in original orange wrappers. More
Amsterdam: Antiquariaat Schuhmacher, [1988?]. 8vo, pp. 124; text printed from typescript; original olive printed wrappers, previous owner's notes on back cover and p. 1, else very good. Bookseller's catalogue of 2820 items related to Dutch language and literature. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1988. 4to, pp. 150; original blue pictorial stapled wrappers, edges toned, interior fine. Reprint of 14 papers presented at the Symposium. More
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1989. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 462, [3] ads; fine in original pink wrappers. Issued as no. 6 in the publisher's Current Issues in Linguistics Theory series. More