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Ueber die Finnische Sprache un ihre Literatur
First Edition
St. Petersburg, Russia: Gedruckt bey N. Gretsch, 1821. 70 pages. The first or one of the first books by this noted early 19th century Finnish linguist, published while he was teaching in St. Petersburg soon after earning his doctorate. A wide-ranging essay on Finnish literature and language, with words printed in German, Finnish, Arabic characters, Hebrew letters, and Cyrillic. ISBN: 281AIB1039624.
First edition (first printing). A clean copy in late 19th century half-leather binding; cloth blindstamped with Maxwell's coat of arms. Bookplates of William Stirling Maxwell, Victor de Guinzbourg, and the Keir House proverbs collection.
Book ID: 200928More details Price: $125.00 -
Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar
First Edition
London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 506 pages. ISBN: 9780415020299.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Book ID: 137246More details Price: $93.75 -
Dialect and Accent in Industrial West Yorkshire (Varieties of English Around the World)
First Edition
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985. 401 pages. Reproduced from typescript. ISBN: 9789027248640.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Book ID: 137023More details Price: $93.75 -
Trinidad and Tobago (Varieties of English Around the World)
Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993. 369 pages. ISBN: 9781556194405.
A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Book ID: 140916More details Price: $62.50 -
Language Learnability and Language Development
First Edition
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (1984). 435 pages. Pinker's first book; lays out his theory of computational language acquisition. The seventh book in Harvard's Cognitive Science Series. Published simultaneously in hardcover. ISBN: 9780674510555.
First edition (first printing). A near fine, gently read copy in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. Pinker and Gould publicly disagreed about theories of language development. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 221626More details Price: $50.00 -
Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume in Honour of A. C. Gimson
London: Routledge, 1991. 373 pages. ISBN: 9780415071802.
A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 138988More details Price: $50.00 -
The Phonology of a Berwickshire Dialect
First Edition
Bienne, Switzerland: Schuler, 1942. 99 pages. Thesis presented to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ISBN: B015AFB3MS.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 154120More details Price: $37.50 -
Kolami: A Dravidian Language
First Edition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1955. 302 pages. 6-3/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Phonology, parts of speech, and the vocabulary of a language of spoken by the spoken by the Kolams of Madhya Pradesh (Central Provinces), India. Volume 12 of the University of California Publications in Linguistics. ISBN: B0007F0MS8.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback) with light fading and minor creases to spine.
Book ID: 132631More details Price: $31.25 -
Brahui and Dravidian Comparative Grammar
First Edition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 27. pp. xi, 90. ISBN: 281AIB1050639.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in gray printed wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 267298More details Price: $30.00 -
Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas)
First Edition
(Lincoln, NE): University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 445 pages. ISBN: 9780803216457.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19058More details Price: $25.00 -
Essai sur l'origene des exposants casuels en Sanscrit
Paris: F. Vieweg, 1883. xxiii, 302 pages. An extended study, in French, of the pronoun in Sanskrit grammar. Dutens was a member of the Societe de Linguistique in Paris. The Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres continues to give a linguistic prize in Dutens' name. ISBN: B004NWT8ZO.
Rebound in plain green cloth. Pages show moderate foxing throughout. Generally very good.
Book ID: 52178More details Price: $25.00 -
The Mechanism of Speech: Lectures delivered before the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (Fifth edition)
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1911. 133 pages. Includes index not present in the first edition. Illustrated with black-and-white charts and diagrams. ISBN: B00086ABNW.
Fifth edition. Near fine hardcover copy in brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine; no dust jacket. Light bumps and wear to corners.
Book ID: 212523More details Price: $25.00 -
Dravidian Borrowings from Indo-Aryan
First Edition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 26. pp. x, 121. ISBN: 281AIB1050640.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in gray printed wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 267299More details Price: $25.00 -
Jamaican Creole Syntax: A Transformational Approach
First Edition
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1966. 164 pages. An important linguistic study, still in print after fifty years. ISBN: B0000CMWIZ.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
Book ID: 141094More details Price: $25.00 -
Persian and Arabic Riddles: A language-centered approach to genre definition
First Edition
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1965. 135 pages; reproduced from typescript. A linguistic analysis of the structure of Persian riddles. Persian text written phonetically in the Roman alphabet. ISBN: B001UERJWM.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 201345More details Price: $20.00 -
Studies on the Accentuation of Polysyllabic Latin, Greek, and Romance Loan Words in English, with Special Reference to those ending in -able, -ate, -ator, -ible, -ic, -ical, and -ize.
First Edition
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1948. xvi, 644 plus 6 pages of errata and corrigenda. ISBN: B00IK6BNMA.
First edition (first printing). One page with a repaired margin tear. Neatly bound in gold cloth, lacking the original wrappers.
Book ID: 204120More details Price: $20.00 -
The History of Inflectional N in English Verbs Before 1500
First Edition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950. x, paginaged from 157 to 328, as issued. Map. University of California Publications in English, vol. 7, no. 4. ISBN: B000O88XHU.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author on the cover, "To Bud, with best wishes, Dave."
Book ID: 218593More details Price: $18.75 -
Pidgin and Creole Languages (Longman Linguistics Library)
London and New York: Longman, 1988. 373 pages. ISBN: 9780582296473.
Later printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
Book ID: 136744More details Price: $18.75 -
Aphorisms of Orazio Rinaldi, Robert Greene, and Lucas Gracian Dantisco
First Edition Thus
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. 301 pages. Facsimiles of rare 16th-century Italian books. Volume 88 of University of California Publications in Modern Philology. ISBN: 9780520092822.
First edition thus. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 130444More details Price: $18.75 -
Black English Phonology: The Question of Reading Interference
First Edition
Berkeley: Monographs of the Language-Behavior Research Laboratory University of California. 91 pages. Monographs of the Language-Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 1, Feb 1971. Originally part of a dissertation. ISBN: B000GYAEB0.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Some loss of spine details.
Book ID: 132822More details Price: $18.75