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
Paris. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,537pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustjacket. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Some creasing, tearing and chipping to dj. The purpose of this book is to "facilitate the spontaneous circulation of information amid..... More
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1964. Third edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 50pp, 29 leaves of plates. Original full cloth. Third edition of Wängler's Atlas of German Speech Sounds profusely illustrated with numerous in-text figs and 29 full-page b/w photographic reproductions. Minor age-toning along edges of binding. Offsetting on endpapers. Text in German. Binding in..... More
Bangkok: College of Education Prasarnmitr, 1963. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. v, 70 (2)pp. Original stapled yellow wrappers with black lettering on cover. A dissertation. "The linguistic study presented here is a syntactic analysis of Thai...It is widely accepted that an ideal grammar should be "formal, explicit and as complete and..... More
Malibu: Undena publications, 1991. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. vii, 87pp., 131 plates. Printed red wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Primary sources and interpretive analysis for the study of Mesopotamian civilization and its influences from late prehistory to the end of the cuneiform tradition, volume 24 of the..... More
Roma: Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 195, [13]pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover and title-page. Title-page inscribed to Cyrus Herzl Gordon. Scholar work compiling the proceedings of the linguistic conference held in Rome in 1991 on "the present position of historical linguistics..... More
Bratislava: Vydavatel'stvo Slovenskej Akadémie Vied, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 276pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over cloth. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Ribbon marker. Fascinating work by one of the most famous Slovakian orientalist, and profusely illustrated with numerous figures and b/w in-text and full-page photographic reproductions of ancient texts. Dustjacket..... More
Poona: Published by Members of the Faculty of the Schools of Linguistics Deccan College, Poona; Linguistic Society of India, 1958. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. VIII, 75, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Previous owner's name (Herbert H. Paper*) on upper front cover and dated July 1959. Publisher's logo on title page. Scholarly..... More
London: Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. 60 page pamphlet stapled and bound in modern brown paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. Original front wrapper of pamphlet has been pasted onto front board. Minor discoloration to paste-down. Black lettering to spine. Corners..... More
Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer, 1965. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXXIV, 434pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work on the theory and representational function of language written by one of the most renown German linguists of the 20th century..... More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XX, 498pp. Original printed dust-jacket over burgundy cloth with gold lettering and publisher's logo on spine. From the collection of Herbert Harry Paper* on front free endpaper, and dated 1974. In this book, lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between..... More
Bonn: H. Bouvier u. Co., 1967. Second edition. Softcover. Quarto. [8], 361, [3]pp. Original printed wrappers. Second edition of Fährmann's "Interpretation of speech expression: studies on the introduction into the practice of characterological voice and speech analysis". Minor age-wear on wrappers with head of spine bumped and creased, thus slightly..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XXIV, 318pp. Original blue soft wrappers. The Glossary presents a picture of the Old Akkadian lexicographical material from the oldest times down to the end of the Third Dynasty of Ur. Two terms need an explanation. The term "glossary"..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1963. Second printing. Paperback. Quarto. VI, [1], 241, [4]pp. Original printed wrappers. This work is the intermediate volume of three-volume Modern Persian Reader. It contains samples of contemporary Persian prose, and assumes a command of the contents of the elementary volume in the..... More
Dordrecht-Holland: D. Reidel, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo.246pp. Blue cloth with gold title on spine in original dustjacket. Minor scuffing and staining to dj. Part of a series "Synthese Library: A Series of Monographs on the recent development of Symbolic Logic, Significs, Sociology of Language, Sociology of Science and of..... More
Austin; London: The University of Texas Press; Linguistic Society of America, 1980. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XV, [3], 129, [1]pp. Original blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Marked advances in the study of Indo-European phonology have resulted when new data were discovered and linguistic methodology refined. New data have..... More