London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, [N.d., possibly 1880s]. Later Edition. Small Quarto. 784 pages. Prize binding. Red leather boards with gilt emblem of Haileybury College on front, gilt border and spine ornamentation, and gilt dentelles to turn-ins. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Prize bookplate on front pastedown to W.L. Ogle..... 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 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

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

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

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

First Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition. Signed by Evans to William Safire on title page with inscription, "To William Safire, / Keeper of the / Mysteries of the / English* / Language / *includes / American / [Harry Evans]." The bracketed signature may have been..... More

Second Edition. 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..... 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

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

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

Hardcover. Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1818. States "from the last London edition." Small octavo (12.7x9cm); [xliv], 378 pp. 212 leaves. Pages 265-268 uncut. Rebound with calf retained on boards. Leather rubbed on edges with two small chips on front top edge. Binding is sound. Pages toned but clean and unmarked..... More