London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,150pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Tail of spine and small section on fore-edge bumped. "This book is a result of co-operation between Mr. Muuse Galaal and myself. The stories given here are taken from his unpublished..... More

Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1875. Hardcover. 8vo. 309pp. Quarter cloth over marbled boards. Age wearing throughout binding. Label on spine, pasted on, chipped, illegible. Slight chipping to head and tail of spine. Abrasions and scuffing to boards. Wear to edges. Ex library stamp to inside of front board and title page..... More

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1954. Hardcover. 4to. iv, 146pp. Original black cloth. A doctoral dissertation on Farsi linguistics. Cover stained and slightly bowed. Signed by member of the dissertation committee on front free endpaper. Overall in good condition. More

Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1887. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. VI, 426, [2]pp. Full green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original wraps bound in. Scarce first edition of this dictionary of the Blin language. The Blin language (Bilin or Bilen) has approximately 70,000..... More

Halis Saxonum. Sumtibus Orphanotrophel, 1892. Hardcover. 8vo. x,123-1, 3-119pp. Three-quarter cloth over black linen with gold decorated spine. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Scuffing and rubbing to boards. Wear to edges. Names of two previous owners in blue ink on title-page. Some underlining and notes to a...... More

Graz: Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft, 1997. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. L, 380pp. Original green wrappers. Some scuffing to wrappers. Inscribed to Wolf Leslau by the editor on title-page. Frontispiece of Maria Höfner. "Der hier vorliegende Band, die Gedenkschrift für Frau Maria Höfner, ist der Versuch, die Reste der Erben zu bewahren und..... More

Heidelberg: Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1909. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv, 516 pp. Blue cloth. German work on the grammar, vocabulary etc. of the language known as Avestan, which is an Eastern Iranian language, once used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta (the primary collection of sacred texts..... More

Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1929. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. LII, 268, [2]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper. Published on the occasion of the Centennial of French Algeria, this study is a remarkable introduction to the Berber language, a language spoken by..... More

Napoli [Naples]: Instituto Universitario Orientale, 1994. Softcover. 8vo. xxiii. 331 (1)pp. Gray wrappers with red and black lettering to front wrapper and black lettering to spine. Head of spine slightly rubbed. Signed letter by Yacob Beyne, with official letterhead of the University of Naples' Institute of Oriental Studies [Instituto Universitario..... More