Making the Modern Reader; Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original gray cloth with spine stamped in silver. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 252 pages. More
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source; Passages and Phrases in Common Use
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1871. Hardcover. 6th Edition. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with spine stamped in gilt and covers stamped in blind. Cloth of spine is loos on back hinge and nearly loose on front hinge. Candidate for rebinding. General wear to extremities. 4 3/4 x 7..... More
A Grammar of the Hebrew Langauage; With A Brief Chrestomathy, For the Use of Beginners
New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in textured green cloth with spine stamped in illustrated gilt. Mild wear to corners, head and heel. Text block is tight. Neat marginal notes in ink on one page, mild foxing to roughly one fifth of the pages. 4 1/2..... More
How To Learn Nepali (Nepali-English Word-Book) With pronunciation
Kathmandu: Singh Bros. 1966. Softcover. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. 116 pages. More
The Arabic Language: Its Role in History
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has light wear to extremities. 6 x 9 inches. 240 pages. More
Zell's Popular Encyclopedia; A Universal Dictionary of English Language, Science, Literature, and Art. In two volumes complete
Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1871. Hardcover. Illustrated by over twenty-five hundred wood-cuts. Bound in original half leather with spine and front cover stamped in illustrated gilt. Front and back covers ruled in gilt. Edges and endpapers are marbled. Pages are in fine condition. Wear to extremities and spines. Nicely illustrated..... More
Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary, in two volumes complete
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass/Yale University, 1972. Hardcover. In English. Bound in publisher's original brick cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Fine except for minor sunfade to spines, and infinitesimal rubbing to heads and heels of spines. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 627 & 239 pages. More
Y Geiriadur Mawr: The Complete Welsh - English, English - Welsh Dictionary
Llandysul, Dyfed, Wales: Gwasg Gomer/Christopher Davies, 1987. Hardcover. Book is fine. Dust jacket has very minimal shelf wear. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Multiple paginations, 836 pages. More
Analecta Orientalia 38; Ugaritic Textbook, Grammar, Texts in Trasliteration, Cuneiform Selections, Glossary, Indices, in three volumes complete
Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1967. Softcover. Photomechanical reprint of 1965 edition. Bound in publisher's original gray wrappers with covers stamped in black, in gray flexible folder, cover and spine stamped in black. A few underlines, and marginal notes on one page. Minor wear to paper on spines of all volumes..... More
Kenkyusha's New English-Japanese Dictionary on Bilingual Principles, A New Edition Revised and Enlarged
Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1960. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original red and black textured cloth with spine stamped in gilt, cover blind-stamped. Comes in matching, closeable board slipcase, stamped in illustrated black and red, wrapped in illustrated black. Book looks fantastic and is in fine condition, except for a clear-tape-repaired small tear..... More
The Oxford English Dictionary; twenty volumes complete plus Volumes I & II of Additions Series
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Second Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in 1989, this edition published 1991 with corrections. Two volumes of the "Additions Series" are first editions, published in 1993, "An A-Z presentation of new work-in-progress supplementing the Oxford English Dictionary." Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in..... More
Nepali Primer; Nepali R's in Ten hours, for Foreign Born
Kathmandu: Sahayogi Prakashan, No date, 1964 or earlier. Softcover. Signed presentation by author in ink on title page, dated 1964. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers.Fine, with sharp edges, except for very light fade to covers. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 32 pages. More
Vocabulum; Or, The Rogue's Lexicon
New York: George W. Matsell, 1859. 1st. Hardcover. Dictionary of criminal slang compiled and prefaced by Matsell, then Chief of Police in New York City. Bound in publisher's original red cloth. Light wear to extremites, through cloth on two corners. Text block nearly flawless. 4 3/4 x 7 inches. 130..... More
Handbook of Old Church Slavonic; Part, Old Church Slavonic Grammar.
London: University of London, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. For students of Slavonic philology, with an extensive word index. More
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1963. Hardcover. Fine condition except for previous owner's stamp to half-title and title pages, and final page. 6 x 9 inches. 1,048 pages. More
English-Language Dictionaries, 1604-1900
New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. Hardcover. Foreword by Suzanne B. Cordell. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Frontispiece. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches. 480 pages. More
Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography
Washington, D. C. Govenrment Printing Office, Department of the Interior, 1893. 1st. Hardcover. Volume IX of Contributions to North American Ethnology, U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. Bound in publisher's original dark maroon cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Convers phonology, morphology, parts of speech..... More
Sanders' Spelling Book; Containing a Comprehensive System of Introductory Orthography and Orthoepy, In Accordance with That of Dr. Webster
New York: Gould, Newman and Saxton, 1839. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original quarter tan leather. Tan boards with title page printed on front cover and publisher's list printed on back cover. Spine is blank with handwritten title in black ink. Front endpaper signed and dated. Endpapers foxed. Minor water stain..... More
Arabic Grammar; Pardigms, Literature, Chrestomathy and Glossary
New York: G. E. Stechert, 1942. Second reprint-edition of the first English edition. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in green. Includes 21 paradigm tables, 80 pages of glossaries. More
Catalog of Dictionaries, Word Books, and Philological Texts, 1440-1900
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine and front cover stamped in black and silver. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches. 397 pages. More
Salome. Drame en un acte par Oscar Wilde avec quinze dessins par Aubrey Beardsley
Socking: Bachmair, 1949. Aubrey Beardsley. One of 2100 copies printed. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with front cover elaborately stamped in gilt, rear cover stamped with a smaller gilt design. More
Sanskrit Grammar; Including both the Classical Language, and the older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana
Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1923. Hardcover. Fifth issue of the second edition (1889). Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Text block is fine except for some underlining in ink to preface and introduction. Binding has wear to corners and head of spine. 5 3/4 x 9..... More
Winslow's English - Tamil Dictionary
New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1999. Hardcover. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 1,510 pages. More
Grammar of Palestinian Jewish Aramaic
Oxford: Clarendon, 1971. Hardcover. "Second edition, with an appendix on the numerals by J.A. Emerton." Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in copper. Book is fine except for neat signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is fine except for slight fade to spine..... More
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