First Edition. 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... More about Old English and New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederic G. Cassidy

First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill, / Thanks for the / encouragement. / Enjoy! / Josh." Additional signed typed letter laid in. Octavo. 350 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $23.00... More about Ghost Image

London: John Stockdale, 1813. Tall octavo; vii, 422pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corner tips. Blindstamped designs on spine with gilt lettering and rules. Marbled page edges. Descriptions of Hogarth's plates, but with no illustrations in this volume. Covers rubbed along edges, especially fore-edge of back cover, with... More about Anecdotes of the Celebrated William Hogarth with an Explanatory Description of His Works, with...

Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Octavo; 248pp. Illustrated blue and black paper-covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Covers nudged at spine ends with a few light smudges. Light pencil erasure at top of front free endpaper, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. More about Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing...

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 about Dictionary of American Regional English [Volumes I - IV

First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition. Signed on title page by author with inscription. Octavo; 363pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $24.00 price. Blue paper over boards with red cloth on spine. Lettering stamped in blue on spine. Dust jacket is clean and bright with... More about Casino: Love And Honor In Las Vegas

Second Printing. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1980. Second Printing. Signed by Clare Booth Luce without inscription on front free endpaper, with additional handwritten letter and two greeting cards to journalist and author William Safire laid in. Quarto; 896pp. Printed dust jacket with patterned border; book in blue... More about Utopian Thought in the Western World [with Clare Boothe Luce letters to William Safire laid in

Special Facsimile Edition. New York: Classics of Liberty Library / Gryphon Editions, 1992. Special Edition. Facsimile reproduction of the third edition of 1698. Octavo. 359 pages. Maroon cloth in maroon leather spine with gilt decorations to spine and front cover. All edges gilt and faux marbled endpapers. From... More about Two Treatises of Government

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 about Noah Webster and the American Dictionary

First Edition. New York: Scribner / A Lisa Drew Book, 1995. First Edition. Typed letter signed in type from the author to William Safire is affixed by scotch tape to the front free endpaper. Book is not signed. Octavo; 555pp. The letter reads, in part, "Dear Bill, /... More about Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage

First Edition. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to writer and columnist William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription "To Bill Safire - / with the best wishes to / an esteemed former / colleague -- / Tom."... More about Easter Lilly : A Novel of the South Today

Mexico City: Ireneo Paz, 1911. Small quarto. Stapled paper thesis with printed cover; 80pp. Paz Sórlano’s law thesis on the freedom of the press at the Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia, where he received his degree to practice in November 1911. Along with Conrado Diaz Soto y Gama, he published..... More about Libertad de imprenta; tesis que presenta el alumno Octavio Paz, en el examen profesional que para...

First Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Octavo. 283 pages. Inscribed by author to William Safire on front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "To: William Safire / with author's compliments / Michael Echeruo / 1998." A Hallmark Hanukkah card is also laid in and inscribed from... More about Igbo-English Dictionary: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index