London: Mouton & Co., 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxii,1174,2pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Scuffing and some staining to boards. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Volume XII of a series "Janua Linguarum," Studia Memoriae Nicolai van Wijk Dedicata edenda curat Cornelis H. van Schoonefeld. Text..... More
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Edouard Champion, 1950. Reprint. Paperback. Quarto. 138, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front wrap and title page. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on front free endpaper, and dated Feb. 1951. Authoritative monograph on Indo-European dialects by Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), one of the most..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1959. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 66pp. Original stapled green wrappers with black lettering on cover. A symposium presented at the 1958 meetings of the American Anthropological Association. A publication of the Archives of Languages of the World, Anthropology Department. Contributions on "Tonkawa and Algonkian," "The Mesh Principle..... More
Seattle: University of Washington. Department of Romance Languages and Literature, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. [1], 150 leaves. Original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) dated 1963 on upper front cover. This work is a report of a two-week seminar held at the University of Washington from September..... More
Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1965. First edition. Paperback. Large quarto. VIII, [4], 396pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on half-title. This work contains selected Urdu poetry, ten selections of Urdu prose and a text for the student with a basic knowledge of the Urdu language. Urdu..... More
Washington DC: Reprinted by the Center for Applied Linguistics of the Modern Language Association of America, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. Quarto. X, [2], 387, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. This volume is an introduction to the Persian language, a language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, though it is not the only..... More
NP, n/d. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,367,[5]pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA to inside of front board. All pages are xerox copies bound in cloth of the original edition published in Halle in 1871..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Moritz Diesterweg, 1921. Softcover. 8vo. 32pp. Original wrappers. Staining to wraps. Two-inch closed tear on front wrapper along tail of spine and along same area on title-page. Some foxing to title-page. Signed by previous owner on title. Short history on the "Frankfurt dialect" and its history. Includes..... More
Wien: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, 1909. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [6], 327pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original wraps bound in. First edition of this scarce work on the personal pronoun and the verbal inflection in the Chamito-Semitic languages..... More
Atlanta: Scholars Press, (1987). Hardcover. 8vo. 198,[56]pp. Green cloth with lettering on cover and spine. Part of the series "Armenian Texts and Studies" by the University of Pennsylvania. Binding in very good, interior in near fine condition. More
Los Angeles: Reprint, 1970. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Reprint of the earliest important dictionary of etymology for English. Some scuffing and minor staining on binding. Small area of bottom edge on front and back board bumped. 4 1/2" thin stain/scratch on upper area of..... More
Bloomington, The Hague: Indiana University, Mouton & Co., 163. First edition. Soft cover. Octavo. viii, 255pp. Original tan wrappers with b/w lettering on cover, white on spine. 26 volumes listed on back cover inside and out. American Council of Learned Societies. Research and studies in Uralic and Alta. Languages. Project..... More
Washington DC: Foreign Service Institute, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. XXV, [1], 470pp. Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Previous owner's name on title (Herbert H. Paper*), and dated 1964. This scarce work is an introduction to the essentials of the Kitouba language. Also..... More
Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1956. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 141pp/ Original gray wrappers with black lettering on cover. Middle Persian language, its relations and origins. Inquiry in language and literature of Zoroastrians, including text samples with religious, educational, judicial, and symbolic content described here in the German language. Text in German..... More
Hamburg: Helmut Buske, 1978. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 8, 480pp. Original pictorial wrappers. 25th volume of the Hamburger Phonetische Beiträge, dedicated to the studies on phonetics and linguistics. This work was published to commemorate Otto von Essen's 80th birthday. Otto von Essen was one of Germany's leading phoneticians. Minor creasing..... More
Paris: Esperantista Centra Librejo, 1931. Reprint. Softcover. Octavo. XI, [1], 182, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. The Fundamento de Esperanto ("Foundation of Esperanto") is a book by L. L. Zamenhof, first published in the spring of 1905. On August 9, 1905 it was made the official source for the language by..... More
Rome: Vittorio Bonacci, 1966. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 222, [6]pp. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Scarce etymological dictionary of Semitic roots by Arturo di Porto. Moderate age-toning on spine and along edges. Text in Italian. Wrappers in overall good to good+, interior in..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957. Abridged and revised edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XV, [1], 106pp. Original printed dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. The present edition is substantially the same as the 1954 edition except that the transcription of the fragments with the notes on them..... More
Hannover: Orient-Buchhandlung Heinz Lafaire, 1923. Hardcover. 4to. 99,23pp. Green paper-covered boards, "Sinai" printed in brown letters on front cover. Illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions. Decorative initials. Boards bowed and almost detached. Discoloration, staining and age wear on boards. Foxing to few pages. Text in German. Binding in poor, interior in..... More
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 292pp. Original decorative paper covered boards. Remarkable study of personal names from the published cuneiform texts found at Amarna, important for study of the Late Bronze Age history and language in the ancient Near East. Binding and interior in overall..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. x,123pp. Original green wrappers. Creasing and some discoloration to wraps. Spine sunned. "The present description of the verbal system of Southern Agaw is the result of fieldwork carried out in Ethiopia in 1965-1966." Volume 12 of "Near Eastern Studies," University..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Softcover. Sm. octavo. x,131pp. Original printed wraps. Interesting study of some of the most interesting Aramaic documents from Qumran. Contents: The Job Targum from Cave II, The Genesis Apocryphon from Cave I, The Prayer of Nabonidus from Cave 4. With preface and list of abbreviations..... More
Copenhagen: Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda - Eldona Fako Kooperativa - Parizo, 1933. First edition. Softcover. 12mo. 64pp. Original printed wraps. First edition of this scarce volume on Esperanto. Text in Esperanto. Wraps and interior in overall very good condition. More
Glendale, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1954. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. X, 170pp. Original printed wrappers. First part of a work intended to develop a filed theory, not only for the analysis and description of language, but for the analysis and description of any aspect of human behavior. In this..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1947. First edition. Quarto. VIII, 122pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers. Publisher's logo on front cover and title page. The subjects of five investigations were published in this volume. (1) The city of Esa (Dur-Kuri-Galzu), (2) the “Schachtelsatz” construction of the Naram-Sin text RA XVI..... More