Philadelphia: William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1803 and 1804. Complete five volume set from the library of notable journalist and White House speechwriter William Safire. Octavos: xvi, 506 pp.; viii, 519 pp.; viii, 516 pp.; viii, 516 pp.; xii, 476 pp., 35 pp., followed by four pages of advertisements..... More

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

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

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

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

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