Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,262pp. Index of Harari terms. Red library buckram, gilt. Original wrappers bound in. No. 7 of 'Near Eastern Studies' by University of California Publications. From the collection of Wolf Leslau. Wolf Leslau was undoubtedly the greatest Semiticist linguist of the..... More
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1983. Hardcover. 4to. ix,[3],243,[1]pp. Gold-stamped maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. "This is the fifth volume in the series Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. As stated in the introduction of the first volume, the purpose of the series is twofold: first, to present to the..... More
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. ix,[3],243,[1]pp. Gold-stamped maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. "This is the fifth volume in the series Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. As stated in the introduction of the first volume, the purpose of the series is twofold: first, to present..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. ix,236pp. Original green wrappers. "This is the second volume in the series Ethiopian Speak...the purpose of this series is twofold: first, to present to the social scientist in general, and to the student in things Ethiopic in particular, a description..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. ix,236pp. Original green wrappers, spine a bit sunned. "This is the second volume in the series Ethiopians Speak... the purpose of this series is twofold: first, to present to the social scientist in general, and to the student in things..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo. ix,236pp. Red library buckram, gilt. Original green wrappers bound in. Fine copy. "...the purpose of this series is twofold: first, to present to the social scientist in general, and to the student in things Ethiopic in particular, a description of various aspects..... More
Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. xx,277pp. Original wrappers, rebound in boards with red buckram, gilt, spine strip. Front wrapper mounted on front board. Large folding map tipped-in at rear. Volume LVII of a series "Collection Linguistique Publiee par La Societe de Linguistique de Paris. Text in French and..... More
New Haven, Conn. American Oriental Society, 1945. First edition. Boards. 8vo. 188pp. Original wrappers, rebound in boards with red library buckram, gilt, spine. "The publication of this work was undertaken to fill a gap in our knowledge of the Ethiopic language. The language of Gafat is mentioned in many studies..... More
Berlin: H. Itzkowski, 1894. Softcover. 8vo. 49, [2]pp. Original printed wraps. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde von der philosophischen Facultät der Albertus-Universitt zu Königsberg I. Pr. genehmigt und nebst den angeführten Thesen im Auditorium Maximum öffentlich verteidigt am 11. April 1894, 11 Uhr von Schmarja Levin. Opponenten: Herr stud. phil..... More
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
American University of Beirut, (1985). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xiv,179pp. Cream cloth with brown lettering on spine in original dustjacket. Some staining and scuffing to boards. Slight rippling along spine on back board. Discoloration, creasing and water staining to dj. Tiny closed tear on head of spine on dj. Some..... 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