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
![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
London: Trüber & Co., 1887. Second Edition. 16mo (6.75" x 4.75"); viii, 139pp +3 ads. Illustrated yellow cloth-covered boards. Covers lightly edgeworn with a chip to cloth at tail of spine and a fair bit of general smudging and soiling. Bookplate of The Benson Library of the Episcopal Academy (Newtown..... More
Edinburgh: J. Ogle / Manners & Miller [et al.], 1812. Third Edition. Octavo; [iv], 291pp +1 ads. Full calf with red leather title card to spine. Boards bumped and worn at corners and spine ends, with rubbing along joints and a good bit of scuffing and smudging to surface. Hinges..... More
First Edition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2000. First Edition. Signed by author to William Safire on title page with inscription: "For William Safire / in gratitude for many / hours' reading pleasure / David Micklethwait / Nov. 2000." Additional typed letter laid in. Quarto; 350pp. No dust jacket..... 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
![A Provincial Glossary [Scolar Press Facsimile]. Francis Grose](/pictures/thumb/5347.jpg?v=1566310134)
Menston, Yorksire: The Scolar Press, 1968. Facsimile of the 1787 Edition. Octavo; [ii], [i]-viii, Glossary and Proverbs unpaginated, +75pp Superstitions and 3pp adverts. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornament. Covers bright, with very light shelfwear and a bit of fading to spine and a slight roll at head..... More
Philadelphia: William Spotswood, 1792. Octavo. 376 pages plus 59 unnumbered pages of a spelling dictionary, and 3 unnumbered pages of popular Christian names. Early American Edition [first published in 1790]. Full contemporary calf with black leather spine label and gilt decoration to spine. William Safire's bookplate affixed to front pastedown..... 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
Herb Roth. First Edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914. First Edition. 12mo (7.25" x 5"); 120pp. Ten illustrations (including frontis) by Herb Roth, all present. Publisher's illustrated cloth-covered boards. Lacking dust jacket. Covers rubbed at corners with a few bumps along edges and a few general smudges. Binding..... 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
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by Collins, 1865. 12mo; ix, [x], 11-152pp. Gray paper-covered boards with brown leather spine. Boards edgeworn with a 2" x 2.5" loss to paper at bottom back exposing board, chipping along edges of leather, and some general smudging to surface. Hinges cracked with some distress..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1884-1928. Missing Vol I Pt I (A) and Vol III Pt II (E), and not including the 1933 Supplement. Uniformly bound in black leather with gilt lettering and Oxford device to spines. All are sturdy and solid, with some expected light edgewear at..... More
Various, including engravings by Granville and Dürer. Stated Ultimate Edition; First Thus; Third Expanded Edition of Original Title. New York: Viking, 1991. "Ultimate Edition," being the third edition of this title. Octavo; 325pp. 250 caricatural or witty reproductions of engravings. Two-color illustrated dustjacket; book in mauve paper-covered boards with darker..... 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
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 460 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by Frederic Cassidy to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription "For Bill Safire - / DARE's [Dictionary of American Regional English] favorite Calumnist/Columnist / and fellow Philologer. / from / Fred Cassidy."... More
First Edition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 1014 pages. Inscribed by Chief Editor Hall to William Safire on front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "For William Safire and / the Charles A. Dana / Foundation, / With thanks for / your crucial support..... More
Philadelphia: Kimber and Sharpless, 1818. Ninth Edition, Revised and Corrected. 24mo (5.75" x 3.5"); 192pp. Contemporary leather with red spine label and gilt lettering. Boards edgeworn and lightly warped, with scuffs down joints and some general smudging and scuffing to leather. Endpapers toned along gluelines. Large ownership on flyleaf reads..... 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