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 about The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon: Consisting of an Alphabetical Arrangement of Every...

Second Edition. 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... More about Pidgin-English Sing-Song: or, Songs and Stories in the China-English Dialect

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 about A Selection of English Synonyms

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 about A Provincial Glossary [Scolar Press Facsimile

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 about Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed

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 about A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by...

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 about Dictionary of American Regional English Volume IV: P - Sk

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 about A Key To The Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names

[New Haven]: [n.p.], 1834. Octavo; 24 pages. Originally published in blue wraps, here only rear panel present and detached. Deals with misreadings and inaccuracies in Biblical translations, and accused Lindley Murray and Joseph Worcester of plagiarizing Webster’s "Speller." From the estate of author, Presidential Speechwriter, and language maven William Safire..... More about A Brief View: 1. of Errors and Obscurities in the Common Version of the Scriptures ; Addressed to...

Fifth Edition. London / Edinburgh: William Baynes and Son / H.S. Baynes and Co., 1823. Fifth Edition. Octavo; 72pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corner tips and gilt lettering. Covers edgeworn with bumping to corners and spine ends and a small chip to leather near head of spine... More about The Hebrew Grammar, with Principal Rules; compiled from Some of the Most Considerable Hebrew...