Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

Child Language Aphasia and Phonological Universals

Jakobson, Roman · 1972

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

The Hague, Netherlands Mouton Second Printing pp. 101. Slim 8vo. Textured navy blue card covers. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine.

From Our Kitchens To Yours, Emmanuel Gospel Church

[The Emmanuel Gospel Church Ladies] · 0

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Lowe Farm, Manitoba [The Emmanuel Gospel Church Ladies] First printing pp. iv, 76. 8vo. Illustrated card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Black and white and colour photographs, illustrations, chart, table et al. Various advertisements by local businesses and mer...

A Nagy Isten hajában: Hindú elbeszélés a szanszkrit kézirat nyomán [Surasuradimanada] [In the Hair of the Great God: A Hindu Narrative Based on a Sanskrit Manuscript]

Bain, Francis William; Baktay Ervin (Trans.) · 1920

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.60 | ¥31,129)

Budapest, Hungary Rozsavolgyi Es Tarsa Kiadasa pp. 176. 12mo. Quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt rules, lettering to spine. Four raised bands, five compartments. Illustrated endpapers, silk ribbon-marker. Light rubbing to the boards, faint tide-mark to the boards a...

The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension

Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Roberta Michnick Golinkoff · 1997

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,033)

Cambridge, MA The Mit Press First edition pp. 230. 8vo. Bound in full black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Neat ink name to corner of ffep otherwise contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding and housed in near fine dustjacket. Overall, very good+ to ...

The Silent Moccasins: Tootimah

Makie, John G. · 0

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

[Northern Ontario] Privately Printed First printing pp. 122. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light rubbing to the covers, contents clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+. At time of cataloguing not in Peel, BAC/LAC. "I was born in a hamlet in Northern Ontar...

Agreement with The Yakima Nation of Indians Letter from the Secretary of the Interior Transmitting a copy of an agreement with the Yakima Nation of Indians, and a draft of a bill to ratify the same: March 21, 1894, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. [Submitted to the Senate of the United States during the 53D Congress, 2D Session]

[United States, Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs] · 211894

$200.00 (€181.46 | £151.38 | ¥31,927)

Washington, D.C. Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs | The Senate of the United States First edition pp. 41. Slim 8vo., measuring 23 cm. Card covers. Coloured hand-drawn map by surveyor William H. Carlton affixed to the rear pastedown entitled: "Portion of the...

The Only Security; [Cover Title: Death is the only security...]

Mann, Jessica · 1973

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

London Macmillan First edition pp. 189. 8vo. Fine terracotta cloth boards with black lettering to spine. No detectable flaws; fine and housed in fine dustjacket bearing the image of a skeleton in dirt. Overall, fine. Fine

Conversational New Guinea Pidgin

Dutton, T.E. · 1979

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Canberra, Australia Department of Linguistics; Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University Pacific Linguistics | Series D - No. 12 pp. xvii, 292. 4to. Illustrated stiff beige card covers. Black and white charts, tables et al. Lightest rubbing to the ...

Nguna Grammar

Schutz, Albert J. · 1969

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Honolulu, Hawaii University of Hawaii Press Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 5 pp. 88. 8vo. Light green card covers. Black and white, charts, tables et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine.

Poems and Drawings (Three Volumes in Slipcase); A Light in the Attic; Falling Up; Where the Sidewalk Ends

Silverstein, Shel · 1966

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

New York Harper Collins Publishers Special Collector's Edition pp. 167, 171, 166. Square 8vo. Pictorial boards. Replete with whimsical black and white illustrations to accompany the wonderful poetry of Silverstein. Slightest bumping to spine tails otherwise contents bright, cl...

A Grammar of The Cree Language, Revised Edition in Plain Cree

Horden, Rt. Rev. John (1828-1893) · 1913

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge pp. 209. 12mo. Bound in original olive-green cloth with black lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Rev. John Horden (1828-1893) was the first bishop of the Anglican diocese of Moosenee. He translated and caused to ...

Musa Dagh Negyven Napja [The Forty Days of Musa Dagh in Hungarian] (Two Leatherbound Volumes)

Werfel, Franz [1890-1945]; István Tamás (Trans.) · 0

$245.00 (€222.28 | £185.45 | ¥39,111)

Budapest Nova Irodalmi Intézet pp. 374, 397. 8vo. Quarter maroon leather over marbled boards with gilt rules and lettering; five raised bands to spine, six compartments, silk ribbon markers. Illustrated endpapers. Very light edgewear, some scuffing to the front pastedowns, sli...

Roster 1973: Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Manitoba

[Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Manitoba] · 1973

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Winnipeg, Manitoba [Association of Professional Engineers of the Province of Manitoba] First printing pp. 80. 8vo. Illustrated light yellow stapled card covers. Black and white photographs, illustrations and advertisements by local engineering, aerospace, and engineering mater...

Color Categories in Thought and Language

Hardin, C. L. (Ed.); Luisa Maffi (Ed.) · 1997

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press First edition pp. x, 404. Small 4to. Black and white photographs, charts, tables et al. Appears unread; new. "Twenty-five years ago, Berlin and Kay argued that there are commonalities of basic color term use that extend acro...

A Waskia Grammar Sketch and Vocabulary

Ross, Malcolm; John Natu Paol · 1978

$185.00 (€167.85 | £140.03 | ¥29,533)

Canberra, Australia Department of Linguistics; Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University Pacific Linguistics | Series B - No. 56 pp. v, 199, 17. 4to. Illustrated stiff beige card covers. Black and white charts, tables etc. Contents include: Grammar...

Eastern Ojibwa: Grammatical Sketch, Texts and Word List

Bloomfield, Leonard · 1977

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Ann Arbor, Michigan The University of Michigan Press pp. 271. 8vo. Black card covers with decorative title label affixed to front cover. Very light sunning to spine, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Includes a rich variety of oral texts...

Comparative Syntax in Austronesian; Dissertation Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley

Foley, William Auguste · 1976

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.83 | ¥19,156)

Berkeley, California | Ann Arbor, Michigan William A. Foley | University Microfilms International Facsimile pp. vi, 241. Square 8vo. Black card covers. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; fine. "In this study we will undertake a ...

Phonetics: The Science of Speech Production

MacKay, Ian R.A. · 1987

$90.00 (€81.65 | £68.12 | ¥14,367)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Allyn & Bacon Second Edition pp. 336. 4to. Black and white illustrations, charts, tables et al. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Near Fine

Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology Explorations in Linguistic Typology

Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; (Ed); R.M.W. Dixon (Ed.) · 2008

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Oxford Oxford University Press pp. xx, 355. 8vo. Black and white maps, charts, tables, illustrations et al. Appears unread, as new. "Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to ...

Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895–1917

Kissack, Terence · 2007

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Oakland, California AK Press pp. 229. 8vo. Lightest rubbing to the covers, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good+ to near fine.