Jubbulpore: Burma Christian Literature Society, 1945. Second edition. Half cloth, ivory boards, front cover lettered in black. A clean, very good copy. Printed in Calcutta. Some changes in the system of transliteration from the first edition (1944). View More...
Paris: Paul Geuthner, Librairie Orientaliste, 1925. First edition. 4to. Original wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in red & black. Slight stain to spine and upper front hinge, some light edge wear, generally a clean and fresh copy. This copy belonged to linguist and scholar C.A. Muses, and bears his small rubber stamp on the inner front cover, as well as some marginalia and underlining in pencil on a few leaves. View More...
12mo. Brown pictorial cloth designed in black, lettered in gilt. Illustrated. Some rubbing to edges, generally a clean and very good copy. This is a bilingual edition, with Japanese text on rectos facing the English version on versos. The latest date on the Preface leaf is 1912. Lettering on the cloth entirely in Japanese, title page in Japanese and English. Preliminary leaves and final Definitions section are in English and not translated; all other leaves have Japanese translation on facing pages. Not in WorldCat. Very scarce View More...
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London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1887. First edition.
Seller ID: 51212
[496]pp. Full calf, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Marbled end papers. Minor shelf wear, a bit of scuffing at the hinges, some foxing of preliminary leaves a fine copy otherwise. We have seen a reference to a similar copy with a signed limitation (675 copies); this copy is unsigned, and has no stated limitation. It is a large copy, with large margins. The owner's bookplate is expertly mounted on a leaf following the title. Title page printed in red & black. Frontispiece. A handsome copy of this important slang dictionary. View More...
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Exeter: Printed by G. Dyer, etc., 1816. / Exeter: Re-Printed for the Author by Trewman and Son, 1814.
Seller ID: 51202
lxxvipp. + 230pp. and [26]pp. The two works bound together in one volume, contemporary green boards with later brown cloth spine & red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Previous owner's large rubber-stamp in several places, ownership signature and small sticker; generally a very good copy. View More...
Original green cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Brown coated end papers. Inner hinges are cracking, there is some moderate wear and discoloration to the cloth, some foxing, but in general a decent, very good copy. View More...
Original stiff printed covers, some chipping to edges and wear to hinges; about very good. Laid in is a small leaflet by Jos. Burlington: "At T' Tatie Pot Supper" published in Whitehaven by R. Burlington, (1922). A single leaf, once folded. It prints a poem in the Cumberland dialect. View More...
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London: John Russell Smith/Carlisle: Geo. Coward, 1869. First edition.
Seller ID: 50367
Original wine cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Brown coated end papers. Inner rear hinge cracked, front hinge somewhat loose, moderate overall wear and chipping; about very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "With the Author's compliments and respects...". View More...
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London: Bemrose & Sons/Carlisle: G. & T. Coward, The Wordsworth Press, 1891. Fourth Edition.
Seller ID: 50368
Original wine cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Brown coated end papers. Stain to upper rear cover, some mottling of cloth, but a fairly bright copy, about very good. Originally published in 1869. View More...
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1944. First edition. Grey wrappers printed in black. Illustrated with plates. Very light edge wear, slight sunning to spine, basically a fine copy. This is one of 30 copies printed on 100% rag paper, so indicated by a white sticker on the front cover, and by a notice printed on the title page. An offprint: University of California Publications in Classical Archaeology Volume 1, No. 13, pp. 313-356, plates 41 and 42. A scarce issue of this booklet, which contains a very detailed examination of a mysterious rubbing of an inscription in La... View More...
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London: Murray, 1859. Third Edition, revised and enlarged.
Seller ID: 55811
Tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Brown coated end papers. Spine mottled, spine ends chipped, inner hinges cracking, a very good copy. First published in 1853, this is the revised Third Edition. View More...
Stuttgart: Paul Neff, 1885. Red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers, printing publisher's ads in the front; plain in the back. 368 pages. A bit of wear to cloth, some light fraying of spine ends, a very good copy. In German & English. The first edition was published in 1870 - the second edition in 1875, and this third edition in 1885. View More...
826pp. White cloth lettered in red. A bit of dust soiling, scrape on spine, ownership stamp on front end paper, about fine. Photographic portrait of Mary Haas at page [vi]. Thirty-six papers presented at the Festival Conference in Santa Cruz in June, 1986. View More...
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NY: J. Orville Taylor, 1838. Ninth Edition.
Seller ID: 50366
Original pink patterned cloth, printed paper spine label. A little worming at front hinge, spine sunned, some foxing and overall wear; a very good copy in general. An easy and expeditious method of acquiring knowledge of derivative words, from a knowledge of their component parts. View More...