Boston: G.W. Cottrell. Early Edition. Hardcover. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind (some staining and wear to cloth; some foxing to text). More about American Fashionable Letter Writer, Original and Selected, Containing a Variety of Letters on...

London: Robert Riviere & Son, 1923. First Edition Thus. Full Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Attractively bound in full red polished calf by Riviere & Son, spine with raised bands, green morocco label, and elaborate gilt floral and geometriic tooling, covers bordered with triple gilt rules, inner... More about English Dictionary [bound with] A Dictionary of English Literature [The Reference Library

New York: Superlatives Inc., 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Early format of the Guiness Book of World Records. VG in green cloth with gilt decoration of an Irish harp and gilt lettering; endpapers decorated with letters advertising Guinness stout. DJ is in pieces, flaps... More about The Guinness Book of Superlatives

New Haven: Calhoun College/ Yale Univ. 1988. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clean, unmarked, light surface wear. Includes 1988 listing for George H.W. Bush (and extended family) while he was still Vice President. Cover page has picture of the Yale bulldog over the text 'Celebrate in 88'. More about Yale Class of 1948 Fortieth Anniversary Yearbook

London: George Virtue, 1848. Engraved Illustrations. New Edition. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco over plum cloth, spine with raised bands and gilt tooling, covers bordered in gilt, upper cover features gilt figures representing the arts, all edges gilt (some rubbing to... More about A Complete and Universal Dictionary of the English Language: Comprehending the Explanation,...

Worcester and Boston: Printed for George A. Trumbull. Sold also by Isaiah Thomas, Jr., 1818. Revised Edition with Corrections. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very scarce edition of this standard text, co-issued by famed American printer Isaiah Thomas. Worldcat records no surving copies of the print... More about An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

London: Folio Society, 2006. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Fine copy in original cloth; publisher's slipcase. More about The English Language

Melville House, 2006. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Clean, tight, unmarked. 160 pp. More about Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

London: Pan Books, 1976. First Thus. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light wear and rubbing to wraps. More about Wellingtons, Bloomers and Sandwiches, or, How Did It Get That Name?

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Co, 1980. 15th Edition. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Attractively bound in custom 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands (very slight wear). More about Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in...

New York: Oxford University Press, 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original red cloth stamped in gilt (spinea bit sunned, cloth has minor spotting and wear). A great gag gift. Think about it. More about The Pronunciation of Standard English In America

Paris: Chez Briasson, 1750. Nouvelle Edition. Full Leather. Oversized Folio. Volume I only. Oversized folio (15 3/4 inches tall). Bound in period fulll brown calf, spine with raised bands and gilt floral tooling, edges red, marbled endpapers (boards rubbed; joints split but solid; top compartment of spine chipped away; some... More about Dictionnaire etymologique, ou origines de la langue francoise, par Mr. Menage. Nouvelle edition...

Boston: Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1849. Reprint. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Volume II only (of 2). Period full brown calf, spine with twin black morocco labels (general light wear; some foxing). More about Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. Volume II. English and Spanish