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
University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1964. Reprint. Hardcover. Large octavo. XIV, [2], 516pp. Original printed dust-jacket over orange cloth with black lettering on spine. First published in 1903, Antoine Meillet's Introduction a l'Étude comparative des langues Indo-Européennes exemplifies the key methodologies and insights of early twentieth-century comparative linguistics. Its..... More
New Haven, Conn. American Oriental Society, 1946. Softcover. 8vo. 30pp. Original wrappers. Some creasing, staining and discoloration to wraps. Offprint Series No. 20 of "Publications of the American Oriental Society." Minor foxing to some pages. This paper appeared as a Supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol..... More
Copenhagen: Kommissionaer: Munksgaard, 1974. Softcover. 8vo.69pp. Original wrappers. Minor chipping, creasing and staining to wrappers. Pages unopened. "A Selection of Indo-European and Pre-Indo-European Studies." Wrappers in good, interior in very good condition. More
Tel-Aviv: Transocean and Palestine Ltd., 1951. Exportausgabe. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,199pp. Gold-stamped red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Hinges starting. Minor staining on binding. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Rosch-Pinnah's interpretation of "Hebrew: An ancient hieroglyphic System." Text in German with some Hebrew. Overall very good condition..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xv,397,[1]pp. Blue cloth with white lettering on cover and spine in original dust jacket. "The aim of this book is to enable the student to read, write, and speak acceptable Israeli Hebrew and to understand less complex Biblical Hebrew."..... More
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIX, [1], 358pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Fascinating work being the first extensive study of 4QpaleoExodm to be published. It is essentially the unrevised doctoral dissertationof Sanderson completed in 1985 under the supervision of E...... More
Oxford: Published for the Society by Basil Blackwell, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,215pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dustjacket. Tail of spine slightly bumped. Discoloration to bottom edges. Minor staining to dj. "This book presents a phonological analysis of Ancient Greek on the lines of modern generative..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies - The University of Michigan, 1976. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. XVII, [1], 290pp. Original printed wraps. The present volume is a collection of essays, commentary, and discussion from one conference organized by the Center for Coordination of..... More
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980. Second edition. Softcover. Octavo. xiv, 311pp. Original stiff white wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Conceptualized as an introduction to comparative Indogermanic linguistics. Historical and linguistic approach of the subject matter. Text in German. Binding rubbed with light age-toning along edges. Binding in overall..... More
Moscow: "Nauka" Publishing House, Central Department of Oriental Literature, 1976. Softcover. 8vo. 119,[1]pp. Original printed wraps. Ex libris of Wolf Leslau, the famous expert on Semitic languages and former Professor of UCLA, on inside of front cover. "The Modern Amharic Language is a book describing Ethiopia's state language. Special attention..... More