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200531449Princeton: Princeton University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 069112292X . First printing. Fine in a very good light rubbing dust jacket. . Princeton University Press hardcover books
198935949Chicago:: University of Chicago Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0226675696 . First printing. . University of Chicago Press, hardcover books
19832190327Askild & Karnekull 1983. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Signed by author. Signed by author. Game pieces laid in appear unused. Very light rubbing to boards. Askild & Karnekull hardcover 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
198823472Binghamton: State University of New York 1988. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Two related items sold here together. The Program Guide plus the Announcement Poster for a series of events at the State University of New York in Binghamton NY on April 15-16 1988 entitled Performing Language a conference & festival. The events included a terrific lineup of poets and performance artists including Antin Rothenberg George Lakoff Marjorie Perloff Peter Cook and Steve McCaffery among others. The program guise is 8 typed letter-sized pages stapled at top left. In fine condition. The poster for the event measures approx. 17" tall x 11" wide. It is folded for mailing else in fine condition. The poster has two hand-corrections indicating that M. Perloff is replacing Frederick Garber on the 15th and Garber is replacing M. perloff on the schedule for the 16th. State University of New York unknown books
1899006605Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1899. RARE in the 1899 First Edition. Very Good sticker abrasion bottom front and rear wrappers rubbing and a few small stains to wrappers. From the collection of the Richard M. Dorson Memorial Library Folklore Institute Indiana University its bookplate namestamp half-title page and blindstamp title page and a few interior pages with blindstamp as well. 48 pp. A Lecture delivered at the request of the Senate of University College Liverpool. Edward Harper Parker 1849-1926 was a barrister and noted China scholar and although not a trained linguist his greatest contribution historically may well be his unusual outlook on colloquial Chinese language. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kelly and Walsh, Limited Paperback books
1887WRCAM52677New York: American Tract Society 1887. 96pp. 12mo. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards spine gilt t.e.g. Front hinge cracking but solid light shelf wear. Bookplates on front and rear pastedowns. Internally clean. Very good. Edward Ayer's copy of this Omaha language tract containing sixty-two hymns as well as the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments. The author William Hamilton arrived and the Presbyterian mission to the Omaha in Nebraska in 1853 and remained there until his death. He wrote a number of Indian missionary works principally for the Omaha and Iowa languages. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS DHEGIHA 7 this copy. PILLING SIOUX pp.32. American Tract Society hardcover books
19272332New York: Sun Printing and Publishing Association 1927. Octavo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 11 1 pages in stapled wrappers. <br /><br />A short history of The Sun founded in New York by Benjamin H. Day in 1833. The Sun was a trendsetter in American journalism according to the media historian Edwin Emery. "Journalism began a new epoch on September 3 1833 with the appearance of a strange little newspaper The New York Sun It Shines for ALL" he writes in The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media. "Most of the material was trivial flippant -- but highly readable. Most important it was cheap. Within six months the Sun had a circulation of around 8000 which was nearly twice that of its nearest rival." <br /><br />The Sun was sold in the street for only a penny and appealed especially to working-class readers with its mix of human-interest stories and emphasis on clear lively sometimes exaggerated storytelling. It was also notable for relying largely on advertising rather than subscriptions for its revenue. <br /><br />"An Outline of The Sun" features numerous photographs of key people at The Sun through the years including the great editor Charles A. Dana who led the paper and was its owner for 20 years. Its editorial cartoonist Rube Goldberg won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. But perhaps its most famous moment came in 1897 with the publication of a letter from a young girl wanting to know if there is a Santa Claus. That led to one of the most renowned newspaper editorials ever commonly known as "Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus." Oddly though the pamphlet doesn't mention it. <br /><br />The Sun continued to publish until 1950 when it was folded into the New York World-Telegram. <br /><br />OCLC shows only 2 institutional holdings at Columbia and the New York Historical Society. None in commerce. RARE. <br /><br />A short but interesting look at a famous American newspaper known for its emphasis on human-interest storytelling. <br /><br />CONDITION: Some soiling to the wrappers upper corners bumped upper part of wrappers pulled away from staple small split at bottom of spine. Clean bright and unmarked on the inside pages. About Very Good. <br /><br /> Sun Printing and Publishing Association books
1891WRCAM55543Desmet Id.: Indian Boys' Press 1891. 6255iv pp. Original pebbled cloth. Minor wear to extremities. Stamp of the St. Joseph's Mission in Slickpoo Idaho on front free endpaper. Very good plus. A rare and early work on the Nez Perce language. The basic text and the first titlepage are printed in Latin befitting a Jesuit work. Nez Perce is a highly endangered language with the estimated number of current fluent speakers at fewer than one hundred. As native speakers of this and other Native American languages disappear these grammars will become more and more important and correspondingly more rare. <br> <br> Some identify Anthony Morvillo as the author of this Nez Perce grammar including Edward Ayer; others credit Joseph Cataldo including Wilberforce Eames and Charles W. Smith. OCLC lists about fifteen copies under both authors. The work is exceedingly rare in the marketplace. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS NEZ PERCE 5. SMITH PACIFIC NORTHWEST AMERICANA 621. SCHOENBERG 79 the Decker copy. DECKER 37:147a. SOLIDAY 562. Indian Boys' Press hardcover books
199224689Austin:: University of Texas Press. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 0292760280 . Bilingual edition: Spanish and English. Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Tapscott. A later paperback printing. Some light rubbing on fore edge else near fine in printed wraps. . University of Texas Press, paperback books
200533016Beijing: Min zu chu ban she 2005. Di 3 ban. A fine copy. As new. 71 1909 p. 3 leaves of plates. 4to. Mongolian-Chinese dictionary. Min zu chu ban she unknown books
197813380Dayton Ohio: NCR Corporation 1978. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A set of Cobol 74 training program guides including the Monitor Guide Handbook and Volumes 1 2 3 and 4 of the student's Self-Instruction Course. Includes the Final Exercise envelope to be opened by the Course Monitor after the student has completed all the course components as well as a nearly complete pad of blank Cobol Programming worksheets. The slipcase is worn and has minor damage to some of the corners and edges. The spines of the booklets are sun faded. Internally sound and generally clean. The second edition first edition was the previous year. Trade Paperback. A group of modules for learning Cobol 74 Programming. The Monitor Handbook shows how the course monitor should teach the course and monitor student progress. The 4 volumes are for the students' use. The Handbook is more of a reference guide for the language. A complete educational package for both learning and monitoring students. These types of materials are becoming quite scarce and are an important part of our computing heritage often discarded as languages become obsolete and programmers learned the languages. COBOL was and is an important language for programming business applications. An acronym for "COmmon Business Oriented Language" COBOL was developed jointly by various industry competitors in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has continued to evolve over time. Cobol 74 refers to compatibility with a particular ANSI standard for the language from 1974. See Sammet's "Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals" for a pre-1970's view of the history of computing languages including Cobol. NCR Corporation paperback books
188970Kenkyusha. Soft Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Underlining and notes written in pencil on a few pages; NOT an Ex-Library Copy. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Kenkyusha unknown 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
1875WRCAM52981New York: American Bible Society 1875. 92pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front hinge cracked spine and corners worn boards scuffed. Shelf label at foot of spine Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Several front endpapers detached. Light tanning. Good. A scarce translation of the Gospel of Matthew into Muskogee published by the American Bible Society. This is the third edition of the work originally translated by R.M. Loughridge and published by the Park Hill Mission Press. This copy was given by Edward Ayer to the Chicago Historical Society in 1901 and was subsequently released as a duplicate. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS MUSKOKI 8. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 2327. American Bible Society hardcover books
1876WRCAM52979New York: American Bible Society 1876. 32pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front hinge cracked spine and edges worn boards scuffed. Remnants of shelf label at spine foot Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Front endpapers detaching. Light tanning. Good. A scarce translation of three New Testament epistles published by the American Bible Society. This is the first edition of the work translated by principally by Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson. This copy was given by Edward Ayer to the Chicago Historical Society in 1901 and was subsequently released as a duplicate. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS MUSKOKI 18. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3322. American Bible Society hardcover books
1875WRCAM52978New York: American Bible Society 1875. 73pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front hinge cracked light edge wear corners and spine ends worn. Shelf label at spine foot Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Front endpapers detaching. Some tanning. Good. A scarce translation of the Gospel of John into Muskogee published by the American Bible Society. This is the second edition of the work translated by the Reverend W.S. Robertson and his wife. This copy was given by Edward Ayer to the Chicago Historical Society in 1901 and was subsequently released as a duplicate. AYER INDIUAN LINGUISTICS MUSKOKI 12. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 2335. American Bible Society hardcover books
1880WRCAM52980New York: American Bible Society 1880. 99pp. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and marbled boards spine gilt lettered t.e.g. Front board detached corners and spine ends worn boards rubbed. Shelf label at spine foot Ayer gift bookplate on front pastedown institutional ink stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Front endpapers detaching. Some tanning. Good. A scarce translation of the Gospel of Luke into Muskogee and the only stand-alone edition of Luke produced in the language according to Ayer published by the American Bible Society. "A small portion of this work was translated originally by Rev. Mr. Ramsay with the help of an incompetent interpreter. It was retranslated by Mrs. A.E.W. Robertson with the assistance in correcting of Rev. Thos. W. Perryman and N.B. Sullivan" - Pilling. This copy was given by Edward Ayer to the Chicago Historical Society in 1901 and was subsequently released as a duplicate. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS MUSKOKI 10. PILLING PROOF-SHEETS 3325. American Bible Society 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
1950006564Oslo Norway: I Komisjon Hos Jacob Dybwad 1950. SCARCE. Near Fine small closed tear bottom edge at spine. From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok his name stamp front cover. 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. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. I Komisjon Hos Jacob Dybwad Paperback books
1932006595Oslo Norway: Instiuttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning 1932. Very Good SCARCE in the 1932 First Edition front cover small edge chips missing the rear cover. . From the collection of noted semiotician and linguist Thomas A. Sebeok his signature in ink title page. 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. Excellent linguistics Association Copy. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Instiuttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning Paperback books
196025590Austin: University of Texas Press 1960. First edition 8vo pp. xxviii 421; fine in original black cloth gilt dust jacket with light edge wear. Compiled and edited by the Committee on Manuscript Holdings American Literature Group Modern Language Association. Descriptions of the holdings in American literature of more than 250 libraries with more than 2350 American writers represented. <br/><br/> University of Texas Press hardcover books
27035NY: Modern Language Association. Periodical. Large 8vo paper wraps. Fine. Four issues: 1989 1991 1993 1994. Articles on language and literature as well as on the job market in education. Modern Language Association unknown books
1910WRCAM26415N.p. 1910. 32pp. 32mo. Original printed wrappers. Front hinge partially torn. Else very good. Small pocket prayer book in Micmac. unknown 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
