London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first printing, first issue with "Bouverie St" on the illustrated title page; with the farmyard frontispiece. xl, 1112 pp. Complete with 12 color plates. Bound in recent purple cloth with black leather backstrip lettered in gilt, new endpapers. Very Good with foxing to..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955-1991. Volumes 1-9 complete. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spines stamped in gilt and red. First edition. (First printings with the earlier volumes all lacking additional printing statements and the latter few having complete number lines.) Near Fine overall, a few bookseller pencil notations..... More

Philadelphia: T. Wardle, 1836. First American edition, from the thirteenth English edition, corrected. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spines. Very Good. Cloth faded and lightly worn at the spine ends. Pages heavily foxed, marginal tear to pp. 195..... More

[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1939. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as "the first dictionary published by a Black person," but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of..... More

[New York]: Cab Calloway Inc., 1944. First thus. (The third of Calloway's dictionaries, basically a third edition of his Cat-ologue.) 16 pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. A Near Fine copy, staple rusted, very slight rubbing along spine. Attractive and bright with very little wear. A WWII-era African American slang..... More

The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. [1961]. No additional printings listed, but recto of rear cover shows a list of publisher's titles dating up until 1961, suggesting either unbound sheets of the first printing were bound into later issue/variant wraps, or possibly this is a later printing. Original pale..... More

London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934. First edition, first printing. viii, 856 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red, with black topstain, issued without a dust jacket. Very Good+ with rubbing to cloth along edges, worn at head and tail, small bookplate to front free endpaper..... More

London: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind. Very Good. Cloth streaked in raking light, lightly rubbed at extremities. Light staining to textblock edge. Previous owner gift inscription to front free endpaper and..... More

London: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good or better with light rubbing to cloth and wear at corners and spine ends, endsheets foxed and hinges..... More

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. xxxii, 750 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in twentieth-century quarter morocco; bound without ads. Sunning to spine, rubbing or light scuffing to rear cover. Contents toned, with occasional and discrete markings from previous owner and several leaves repaired. The very first publication..... More

Lowville, NY: Published and Sections Prepared by the Author. Twelve volumes of 14, lacking volumes 9 & 14. In publisher's original green cloth slipcases decorated in blind and lettered in gilt and black with clasps and chemise holding text bound in original wrappers and unbound cards with wood specimens of..... More

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1923. First edition. xliv, 724 pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good with L-shaped tear in cloth at head, tiny piece of tape on verso, faint tape stains on front and back boards. Cloth mottled, especially on back board, a little edge-worn. A few..... More

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1966. First edition, first printing. x, 321, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Very faint diagonal crease to prelims. A bright, attractive copy. This volume consists of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's hitherto uncollected writings with..... More