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1949008338New York: Rand McNally & Co. 1949. RARE lithograph wall chart for the device called the "Structural Differential" which Alfred Korzybski patented in 1925 as a means to aid in visualizing the process he called "abstracting". This was to be used as a training device in general semantics a field of study Korzybski is credited with founding. The chart is Near Fine rubbed lower right mounted on two stained wooden dowels with ribbon hanger 18" wide by 38" high. Korzybski's work in semantics heavily influenced science fiction authors such as A.E. Van Vogt Robert A. Heinlein Poul Anderson and H. Beam Piper as well as L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph W. Campbell. His most famous quote "The map is not the territory" comes from this longer quote "A map is not the territory it represents but if correct it has a similar structure to the territory which accounts for its usefulness." Science and Sanity Korzybski 1931. OCLC locates no copies; no sales records at RBH. . First Printing. Banner. Near Fine. 18"w x 38"h. Rand McNally & Co. books
19121808Cantonment Ok.: Printed in the interest of the Mennonite Mission Among the Cheyennes 1912. About very good. 2299pp. Original brown cloth stamped in black. Light wear to binding spine ends slightly frayed. Inner hinges cracked but holding. Contents clean and fresh. Rare edition of this translation of two gospels into the Cheyenne language printed for use by the Mennonite Mission near Canton Oklahoma where they also operated an Indian School. The author Rodolphe Charles Petter was a Swiss Mennonite who immigrated to the United States in 1890 when in his mid-thirties for the express purpose of proselytizing the Native Americans. He spent a year at Oberlin College to learn English before arriving at the Cantonment Mennonite Indian School in 1891 where he spent the next twenty-five years as a teacher and missionary for the Cheyenne. In 1916 he left Oklahoma for Lame Deer Montana where he continued his activities among the Northern Cheyenne until his death in 1947. Petter published numerous works of Cheyenne grammar and language during his lengthy career including a massive English-Cheyenne dictionary; the present translation of the gospels of Luke and John is one of his earliest efforts. <br /><br />Petter's introduction to this work is written from the mission at Cantonment and is dated August 1902 but the book was first printed in Indiana on the press of the Berne Witness a tri-weekly bilingual newspaper for the Swiss and German immigrants who populated the town and also the official printing house for the Mennonite Church in the United States in late-19th and early-20th centuries. This second edition was published in Cantonment in 1912 and was produced on an eccentric early 20th-century printing device called the Gammeter Multigraph. The machine invented by H.C. Gammeter was an unwieldy combination of typewriter and office printing press and was typically used to reproduce typewritten letters and forms for distribution in large numbers. The production of an entire book such as the present volume would have been a complex and time-consuming personal undertaking.<br /><br />Very unusual and quite scarce -- we locate only a smattering of institutional copies in OCLC; none in Oklahoma and lacking from many major Indian language and western history collections.<br /><br />Ayer Cheyenne 4. Printed in the interest of the Mennonite Mission Among the Cheyennes books
1963008958Wiesbaden Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH 1963. Published 1963-65-67-75. Four volumes in original printed wrappers text in German xlviii 557 v 671 670 640 pages. Near Fine pages uncut slight toning to spines small corner crease to wrappers. Interiors are pristine unopened and unread. SCARCE in current commerce. A heavy and bulky set they will require additional postage for priority and international mail. Please inquire. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine. Thick 8vo. Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH paperback books
1964008518Roma: Pontifcium Institutm Biblicus 1964. Analecta Orientalia Commentationes Scientificae de Rebus Orientis Antiqui 34/39 1955/ 1964/1967 3 volumes bound as one. Bound in handsome blue buckram gilt lettering at spine the signature of noted Egyptologist E. Cruz. Uribe front paste down. Near Fine faint bottom corner creases near back of book binder's instruction slip laid in from Director's Library Oriental Institute University of Chicago. lxxxiii 625 pp. Paradigmen 15 pp. Register der Zitate 1967 ix 55 pp. Text in German. Uncommon in lovely and durable binding. A heavy book priority and international mail will require added shipping charges - please inquire before ordering. . First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine. Thick 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Pontifcium Institutm Biblicus Hardcover books
1990002739Bloomington IN: Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study 1990. Distinguished Lecturer Series 1. Stapled wrappers with gilt lettering front wrapper. 16 pages2. Near Fine tiny spot faded front wrapper book appears to be unread. A lecture given by Eco while he was a Fellow at the Indiana University Institute of Advanced Studies from July 10-24 1989. No limitation given but purportedly fewer than 300 copies printed and one of Eco's scarcer A items. Contursi A029. First Edition First Printing. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study Paperback books
193411616Chicago and Oxford: University of Chicago Press 1934. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Continuous run of twenty volumes of this scholarly work on the Scottish language. Softbound quartos. Published over many years. Starting in 1934 for Part IV and ending in 1968 for Part XXIII. Inconspicuous small prior owner stamps to each cover else very good condition. Sold as a set. Additional postage will apply for international customers due to the sheer combined weight of these volumes. <br/><br/> University of Chicago Press paperback books
1978008959Bloomington Indiana: The Mongolian Society Inc. 1978. RARE. Part One published 1978 Parts Two and Three 1984. Fine two words with highlights noted in Part One. Publications of the Mongolian Society. . First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Mongolian Society, Inc. Paperback books
1950005068Saint Michaels AZ: St. Michaels Press 1950. 372 pages. Book in English and Navajo with two beautiful fold-out color reproductions of sandpaintings. SCARCE especially so in such lovely condition. Near Fine small date in ink front endpage spine a bit bowed. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. St. Michaels Press Paperback books
1952008983Wiesbaden Germany: Otto Harrassowitz 1952. Vols. I and II published 1952 Vol. III 1955. Hauer's classic Manchurian-German dictionary RARE in the First Edition. Three volumes in original printed wrappers Very Good small tears and wear ay spines. pages uniformly browning chips at wrapper corners of Vol. III. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Otto Harrassowitz paperback books
1945008507New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1945. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on presentation bookplate "This book is especially Autographed by the Author signed H.L. Mencken in ink Kroch's Bookstores Chicago". Near Fine small corner bumps toning from bookplate glue at front end pages in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and corners. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
1913008969Berlin: Verlag Der Konigl. Akademie Der Wissenschaften 1913. RARE. 111 pages with 2 plates. Cloth spine over printed paper covered boards. Near Fine wear at spine ends and corners prior owner inscription in ink top edge front cover. Friedrich W.K. Muller 1863-1930 was " a scholar of oriental cultures and languages who confronted with the texts discovered by the four German expeditions to Central Asia 1902-1914 was able to make groundbreaking discoveries about many languages hitherto almost unknown and to make a major contribution to the establishment of the philological and historical study of texts in Middle Iranian and Old Turkish and the study of original Manichaean texts. He is considered "the founder of the study of the Parthian and Sogdian languages as well as of Manichaean Middle Persian.Encyclopaedia Iranica. No copies found at auction or in current commerce. . First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Verlag Der Konigl. Akademie Der Wissenschaften Hardcover books
1930008986Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften 1930. RARE. Published 1930-32. "On the Medicine of the Uighurs". Text in German.Two volumes bound in contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards gilt lettering back beige end papers original wrappers bound in at rear. 2 25 2 plates 2 50 pp. 3 plates wrappers. From the collection of noted Inner Asian Studies scholar Denis Sinor 1916-2011 his bookplate front paste down and his signature at each title page. Sinor founded and directed the Asian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University and served as editor of the Journal of Asian History. Near Fine light wear at head of spine. . First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften Hardcover books
1932853731932. CHINESE LANGUAGE MULLIE Jos. THE STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE an Introduction to the Spoken Language Northern Pekingese Dialect. Translated from the Flemish by A. Omer Versichel. Volume 1-III. Peiping China: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing 1932-1937. Volumes 5 and 6 of "Anthropos linguistische bibliothek" series edited by W. Schmidt & Georg Holtker. First English language edition of HET CHINEESCH TAALEIGEN published 1930-33. Three quarto volumes bound in two: 4XXXIII566; 2693-69626522653-692 pp. The imprint in Volume 2-3 Pei-p'ing: Pei-t'ing Lazarist Press 1937 is different than that in Volume 1. The pagination in Volumes 2 & 3 is continuous. The start of Volume 3 an index rerum is indicated by an unnumbered half-title page inserted after p. 652. The errata lists for Volumes 1 & 2 are printed on pages 693-696; they are bound out-of-sequence at the start of Volume 2 immediately following the title-page. Publisher's red cloth bindings with gold-printed title on spine. The cloth at the heel and crown of Volume 2-3 is crimped and the joints are just starting but the volume is sound. Some pencil notes in text mostly at the beginning of Volume 1. Very good overall. unknown books
1935006597Oslo Norway: H. Aschehoug & Co. 1935. Vols. 1 and 2 published 1935 Vol. 3 1938. Vol. 1 Good covers loose and chipped at edges Vol. 2 Very Good front cover loose Vol. 3 Very Good lacking rear cover. Preface by G. Morgenstierne. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok his signature in ink all 3 title pages. A Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Sebeok was among the founders of biosemiotics and editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica the leading periodical in the field. A wonderful linguistics Association Copy of this set SCARCE in the complete 3 volumes. Instiuttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vos. H. Aschehoug & Co. Paperback books
1910WRCAM26415N.p. 1910. 32pp. 32mo. Original printed wrappers. Front hinge partially torn. Else very good. Small pocket prayer book in Micmac. unknown books
1909006662London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1909. SCARCE. Handsomely bound in half-leather and orange cloth gilt lettering and rules at spine 624 pp. Near Fine a few spots light soiling to edges of page block. . Fourth Impression. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
1911WRCAM30579New York 1911. 1135pp. each number repeated twice with Dakota and English on facing pages. Contemporary black cloth gilt-lettered spine. Dampstain on fore-edge not affecting text small chip in spine. Very good. A later edition of this guide to the Dakota language. No translator is given but Pilling cites S.D. Hinman and J.W. Cook in his entries for editions of 1875 and 1879. PILLING SIOUAN p.37 ref. hardcover books
1912004661Washington D.C.: The Carnegie Institute of Washington 1912. Very Good 1/2 leather 1/2 marbled clot with red leather title labels and gilt lettering gilt rules marbled endpages edges of page block with red speckles. Leather rubbed prior owner name stamps front endpage. Contents are clean tight and free of markings. Tight binding. SCARCE in the hardcover and in collectable condition. . First Edition. Cloth and Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Carnegie Institute of Washington Hardcover books
191819046Philadelphia: Bishop White Prayer Book Society 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo 519 pp with English and Dakota text on facing pages. Near fine copy in original black cloth with bookplate of Episcopal minister Donald Henning on front pastedown. The first English and Dakota service book was translated by a committee appointed by William H. Hare missionary bishop of Niobrara in the 1870s and was reissued several times over the following decades. This is an entirely new translation containing much additional material and commissioned by South Dakota Bishop Hugh Burleson with the stated intention of "making the language more intelligible to the people which we trust will aid them in more intelligent worship of Almighty God." Marken & Hoover Bibliography of the Sioux 2190. Bishop White Prayer Book Society hardcover books
1909007965N. Wales: Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only 1909. Near Fine in original beige publisher's cloth Series of Welsh Texts emblem stamped in black front cover small bottom corner bump the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. Colophon states " Six hundred copies of this work were printed at the Private Press of the Editor in 1900-03; Nos. 1-110 on Japanese Vellum paper; 111-285 on toned linen-made paper; 286-600 on deckle-edge paper." This copy unnumbered on toned linen-made paper unnumbered and copy right page date of MDCCCCix 1909. Volume xi of the Series of Old Welsh Texts. . Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only Hardcover books
1948006652London: Oxford University Press for Intl. African Inst. 1948. All five volumes are Very Good Plus sticker shadow front wrappers inked name "Herzog" front wrappers and "Herzog Collection" stamp front end pages from the collection of noted folklorist and linguist George Herzog minor wear to wrappers contents are clean tight and unmarked. Publication dates 1948-1956. SCARCE as a collection. Four volumes with maps rear pockets one with rear fold-out map all maps are present and Fine. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford University Press for Intl. African Inst. Paperback books
192821951Oxford: at the Clarendon Press 1928. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The Society for Pure English was founded by the Editors of the O.E.D. W.A. Craigie Henry Bradley Robert Bridges Sir Walter Raleigh. L. Pearsall Smith and comrades for the purpose of "guiding educational authorities and introducing into practice certain slight modifications and advantageous changes. at the Clarendon Press unknown books
1910007966N.Wales: Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only 1910. Bound in half vellum over dark blue buckram gilt rules and lettering top edge gilt marbled end papers the bookplate of noted Celtic language and folklore scholar Edgar M. Slotkin front paste down. Near Fine corners bumped small tear to buckram top edge rear cover. An unnumbered copy on Japanese Vellum Paper. . Limited Edition. Half Vellum. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Llanbedrog: Issued to Subscribers only Hardcover books
19722291New York: The Viking Press 1972. Third Printing. Small Quarto 9 1/2 x 6 inches; 240 x 150 mm xxiv 232 pages in black cloth titles to spine red top stain in a printed dust jacket. <br /><br />A letter inscribed by Janet Flanner is taped to the front end paper: "For Adele with friendly recollections and gratitude for a long memory. Faithfully Janet Flanner November 13 - '72." The letter is on Ritz Hotel Paris stationery. <br /><br />A collection of Flanner's articles from The New Yorker for 1925-1939. Flanner 1892-1978 used the pseudonym Genêt and wrote on a wide variety of political and cultural topics. This collection edited by Irving Drutman has pieces on Josephine Baker Marlene Dietrich Mae West Sarah Bernhardt Picasso Gertrude Stein's art collection lurid murder affairs Paul Signac gambling the gathering clouds of war in the late 1930s and much more. <br /><br />An engrossing and entertaining look at Paris between the wars by a young journalist who wrote a fortnightly "Letter From Paris" for The New Yorker. <br /><br />CONDITION: Letter from Flanner taped to front end paper slight lean to spine minor rubbing to cloth internally clean and unmarked. The dust jacket's upper panel has some creases a short closed tear and a couple small nicks to the top edge as well as some foxing to the verso of the jacket. Overall Very Good. <br /><br /> The Viking Press hardcover books
1911008981London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum 1911. Near Fine end papers toned slight fading to rear boards. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering at spine. xx 100 2 Appendix pages. Interior clean tight and unmarked. Uncommon in lovely condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum hardcover books
