Madison, WI: Wm. J. Park & Sons, n.d., ca. 1880s. Nineteenth Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in black, blue floral endpapers; 64pp.; illus. and tables throughout. Extremities a bit rubbed, contemporary pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. 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

New York: American Book Company, 1900. First Edition. Signed "by the author" with inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper. Octavo. 190 pages. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Text in Greek and English. Gildersleeve was a soldier for the Confederacy in the Civil War and would go on..... 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

Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1828. Fifth American Edition, Corrected, with Additions. 12mo; full contemporary sheep, black gilt spine label; [4],15-312pp. (complete despite pagination error). Boards a bit scuffed with brief exposure at corners, shallow loss at spine crown, some dark browning to a few leaves including preliminaries, early 20th-century typescript ownership..... 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

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

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

London: Charles Knight and Co., 1845-6. Two Volumes. 16mo; xii, 881pp, xiii, 946pp. Bound in brown cloth-covered boards with brown leather spines and corner tips, marbled endpapers, and red spine labels with gilt lettering by "G. Freeman, Binder." Binder's signature on verso of front free endpaper at top in both..... More

New York: George W. Matsell & Co., 1859. First Edition with matching dates on title and copyright. 16mo (15.5 x 10cm); vi, 130pp followed by one page of advertisements for the National Police Gazette. Bound in gatherings of 6. No illustrations or frontispiece in this copy, likely as issued... 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

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: 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