Language, Dialect from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Montreal: no publisher (the author ?), 1915. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 111 & [1] pages, illustrated. Original reddish brown cloth. Text in French. Small split in the upper joint, slight fraying at spine extremities & corners, spine faded, hinges cracked (still secure), text toned, a good or better copy. Blanchard (1883 - 1952, was a Canadian priest and the author… Read more about this item

London: William Pickering, 1848. First edition, this copy with signed presentation by Evans in ink at the front pastedown to the Library of the [Royal] Archaeological Institute. 16mo, xvii & 116 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind. All edges gilt. Ex-library with the small rubber-stamped mark of the Royal Archaeological Institute in the margins of several… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905. First edition. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 29. Octavo (9.5" x 6"), 448 pages. Publisher's gilt lettered & decorated olive cloth. Modest wear at spine extremities, corners, & edges, gilt dull, binding moderately soiled, front hinge started (still secure), internally toned, otherwise good or better. The language of the Haida was suppressed at Native… Read more about this item

Stokesley [North Yorkshire]: Published by the editor, 1878. First edition. 16mo, 76, [4], 8 pp., with occasional illustrations in text. Original gilt-lettered green cloth over card stock. Upper cover cracked evident on the verso only, moderately soiled & rubbed, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, internally toned, previous owner's name, place, & date in old ink at the ffep, still… Read more about this item

Derby, [Connecticut]: Humor Magazines, Inc., Volume vi, number 6, November, 1960. First edition. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 64 pages. Glossy, pictorial stapled paper wraps. Slightly rubbed, rubber-stamped date on front cover, faintly musty, otherwise Very Good. Features "A Beat Dictionary" by Village Voice columnist Bill Manville, an article on Jayne Mansfield, and, of course, splendid illustrations from photographs often depicting pretty young… Read more about this item

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Co, 1826. First edition thus. 12mo, 68 pp & 1 plate Contemporary gray paper over boards crudely rebacked in red cloth (not recently). OCLC locates 5 copies Rebacked, moderately soiled, front hinge started, foxed & toned, previous owner's name & date in pencil at title page, otherwise Very Good. Described in the preface by the anonymous… Read more about this item

New York: published by the author, 1913. First edition, this copy inscribed in ink at the ffep to Margaret S.G. Lucado by "the perpetrator to the source" 8vo, vi, 93, [1] pp. Original gilt-lettered maroon cloth. Binding soiled & spotted, brief wear mostly at spine extremities, lightly dampstained affecting the lower cover & the margin of several leaves, occasional handling… Read more about this item

Penzance: F Rodda, Printer & Publisher, 1895. First edition. 8vo, xii, 139 pp, frontis portrait of the author. Publisher's gilt lettered blue cloth. Lightly rubbed, brief offsetting at pastedowns & endpapers, minor foxing, binding started in a couple of places (still secure), last two leaves of text roughly opened causing small losses not affecting text, otherwise Very Good. Presents a… Read more about this item

New York: Published and sold by James A Burtis (ie "Burtus"), printed by R. Tyrell, 1821. Second edition. 24mo, [5], 6 - 108 pp. Publisher's marbled paper over boards backed in calf. Gorlach/ Bibliography of 19th Century Grammars of English 72. Joints cracking, binding rubbed, modest loss of marbled paper at the upper cover, previous owner's names & brief annotations… Read more about this item

London: Printed for private circulation (by Unwin Brothers), 1867. First edition, this copy signed ("with the thanks of the author"), & dated in the year of publication on the title page. 16mo, [1-2], 2 (ie 3), & 4-56 pages. Modern green cloth backed in black morocco lettered in gilt on the spine. Internally lightly foxed & toned, with several light pencilled… Read more about this item