New York: Basic Books, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the free front endpaper with an additional unique Miro-esque sketch by Hofstadter, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over blue-gray boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with cover art by Frank..... More
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1903 / reprinted 1979. First Edition, Later Printing. Cloth. 4to, navy blue cloth, dj, tight & internaly bright copy, 626 pages. ~3 lbs. THE Syriac dictionary to own. A very clean and tight reprint of the first edition. Small (1/2” square) innoffensive tape mark on free..... More
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with photo of Churchill looking serious, 161 pages. SCARCE collection and with the dj. The dj is rubbed and shows white along edges with a thumbnail-sized chip missing from the..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Second Edition. Cloth. Second edition with Additions and Corrections, tall 8vo, maroon pebbled cloth, 459 pages. ~2 lbs. A superior grammar of Syriac or Western Aramaean. Its Introduction offers a history of the Syriac language. The Chrestomathy presents a selection of literary passages--often..... More