London: R. Hunt, 1821. Second Edition. Two Volumes. Octavo; I: cvii, 315pp, II: [iv], 434pp +1 ads. Full leather with gilt borders and leather spine labels. Boards nearly detached on first volume, with front board holding by only the top stitch and the back holding by top two. Second volume..... More
Newark & New York: Benjamin Olds / John C. Totten, 1828. First Edition. 12mo (14.5cm.); publisher's black morocco-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine; xxxvi,[37]-178pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed with some brief exposure, chiefly at corners, faint tide mark along bottom half of both boards bleeding into text block, contemporary pencil..... More
London: G. Scott, for J. Robson, 1770. First English Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges stained yellow; collated and complete: [A]-2F8; [*]2 A-S8 TU8 X-2D8 E2; [*]2 A-2E8 (final two leaves blank); folding plate of sheet music in rear of Vol..... More
![The Book of Job: A Revised Text and Version [William Safire copy]. C J. Ball, C F. Burney, preface](/pictures/thumb/5848.jpg?v=1576528321)
Oxford: Oxford University / Clarendon Press, 1922. First Edition. Octavo. 479 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Area the size of a dime cracked at top of spine. Cloth still attached but loose from binding. Rubbed at extremities and more heavily along top edge..... More
Shanghai: Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1933. "Fifteenth Thousand" printing. 16mo (14x11x1.5cm); viii + 237pp + "Radical Index" of 70pp. Brown-black pebbled leatherette with gilt spine lettering and rules. Cover shows one white paint-like spot (1 cm) and several white speckles. Joints and hinges solid; textblock unmarred and unmarked. Chauncey..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Later Printing (November 1965 code to copyright, with August '65 noted on jacket flap). Square octavo; x, 318pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; book in sea-blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Jacket shelfworn with a small chip at top back near..... More
![The Dictionary of Modern War [inscribed to William Safire]. Edward Luttwak, Stuart Koehl](/pictures/thumb/5779.jpg?v=1574773746)
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by Edward Luttwak without named dedication on full title to journalist William Safire with inscription "Since you read dictionaries... Edward Luttwak, In witness (?), June 1991." This book obtained directly from Safire's estate. Quarto; 680pp. Apparatus printed in two..... More
First American Edition. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1852. First American Edition, from the Second London Edition. Octavo; 179pp. Stamped red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Covers heavily faded and soiled, with bumping to corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracked, with covers opening a bit shakily and..... More
![Dictionary of American Regional English [Volumes I - IV] [Inscribed to William Safire]. Frederick...](/pictures/thumb/5204.jpg?v=1564075422)
First Edition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1985 - 2002. Volumes I - IV; all First Printings. Thick Quartos. Publisher's blue cloth in tan pictorial dust jackets. Illustrations throughout. Several letters laid in from the editors to author, linguist, and speechwriter William Safire. Volume One inscribed..... More
Paris: Le Normant, 1814. Seconde Édition, revue et corrigée. Thick octavo; full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt-ruled spine with red onlay, pale blue laid endpapers; [2],lvi,919pp. Binding rather scuffed, leather cracked along spine edges, contemporary ownership inscription with old remnants of wax seal to front and rear endpapers, very occasional marginalia..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1990]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[3],236pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Light shelf wear, boards a hint bowed, else Very Good and sound. More
Boston: Charles Ewer, 1819. First American Edition, from the Second London Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. Thick Octavo. 1006 pages; text in double columns. Rebacked with original calf retained. Red spine label with gilt lettering. Boards a bit warped, with some shallow chipping to original leather along seams with..... More
New York: C.S. Dunning, 1831. Octavo; vi, 412pp. Printed in two columns, with woodcut illustrations throughout. Contemporary sheep with gilt decoration to spine, borders, and board edges. Marbled endpapers. Ex-library with card pocket on back pastedown with stamps of The Fleming School Library and Ecole Francaise Reference Library, but no..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Limited Large Paper Edition, numbered 43 of 50 copies and signed "Charles Whittingham & Co." (the Chiswick Press). Bound by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, with binder stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington, Esquire of Cossington in County..... More
Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1830. Stated Third Edition. 24mo (15 x 9cm); 272 pp. Red leather binding on spine with marbled paper over boards. Lettering stamped in gold on spine. Corners of cover rubbed through to boards. Binding is sound. Pages toned with age, but are clean and..... More
Halae Magdeburgicae: Sumtibus Orphanotrophei, 1766. Second Edition. Small octavo; 79pp +1 appendix. Dark brown cloth-covered boards. Covers edgeworn with scuffing and fraying along edges and corners, vertical creases down front and back boards, and chipping away of cloth over spine. Endpapers heavily foxed, with lighter occasional foxing throughout. 3" x...... More
Terre Haute: Dictionary Society of North America, 1984. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 97pp. Portrait frontis. Maroon grained leatherette-covered boards with gilt border and lettering. Covers very faintly shelfworn, but sturdy and square with no bumps or marks. Gilt titling a but dulled. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More
![The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. [Limited Edition]. James Boswell, Clement K. Shorter, pref](/pictures/thumb/8660.jpg?v=1613587836)
London: Navarre Society Limited, 1924. Limited Edition of 2000 sets. Three volumes; publisher's maroon cloth in tan pictorial dust jackets, top edges gilt; frontispieces (tissue guards), seventy leaves of plates (one folding), including steel-engraved views, portraits, and numerous facsimiles. Light shallow chipping to jacket extremities, chiefly at spine crowns, dark..... More
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. New Edition. Two volumes; quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's half linen over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; xxxii,576; xv,[1],[577]-1172pp.; photogravure frontispieces and ten leaves of plates (tissue guards), additional illus. throughout text, many full-paged. General shelf wear, spines both rather toned, front..... More
![Power Language: Getting the Most out of Your Words [Signed to William Safire]. Jeffrey McQuain,...](/pictures/thumb/5987.jpg?v=1579614418)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First Printing with full numberline. Signed by the author on half title to journalist William Safire, who wrote the book's foreword, with inscription "To Bill Safire -- With my deep gratitude for introducing the book and for introducing me to the word dodge! Jeffrey McQuain..... More
![A Second Browser's Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language [Signed]. John...](/pictures/thumb/6332.jpg?v=1591729218)
New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Stated First Edition. Signed by Ciardi on front free endpaper; with, around his signature, an additional inscription and signature in ink by the book's dedicatee, Constance Erskine, Ciardi's aunt, as a gift from her to a friend. Octavo; 329 pp. Burgundy dust..... More
Westport, CT: Oryx Press, 2001. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's glossy white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued; xxxvii,[1],377pp.; illus. throughout, text in double columns. Light dust-soil to boards else Very Good to Near Fine. Civil War reference in the form of a dictionary of terms and..... More
Hardcover. London: T. Pote and T. Payne, 1762. Octavo (20.5x13cm); xxxiii, [1], 231, [7], 27, [1] pp. Page 91 misnumbered 19. Brown calf binding on spine with blue marbled paper over boards. Letter F stamped in gold on spine. Boards rubbed on edges. Top of spine is chipped..... More
New York: Evert Duychink, 1821. Small octavo; 304 pp. Contemporary leather (sheep?) with red spine label. Boards a bit warped with a fair bit of rubbing, scuffing, and soiling to surface and edges. Dampstaining to initial pages and noticeable for the first 20 or so before disappearing into more general..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Second Edition. 12mo; xviii, [19]-176pp +36pp ads. Blue and brown paper-covered boards with printed title label to spine. Boards well-rubbed at corners and along edges, with bumps to spine ends and general smudging to surface. Ownership name of "J. Evans Pugh" in..... More