Caught In the Web Of Words, James Ah Murray and The Oxford English Dictionary

Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1977. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 0300021313 . Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches; 400 pages .

Yale University Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1995. Softcover. 0300063105 . 8.70 X 5.80 X 1.20 inches; 400 pages .

Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1978. First Edition; Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 0300021313 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Ill fitting front flap. Few small closed tears. ; From the estate of Author John Alden Jamieson. "Books for the Army."; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches; 386 pages .

New Haven; Yale University Press; 1978.. Roy. 8vo; pp. [xiv], 386; frontispiece portrait of Murray, text illustrated with 25 b/w. photographs, notes, index, bound in original black boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, good copy.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. paperback. 8vo. paperback. (xiv), 386 pages. With a Preface by R.W. Burchfield. First English edition, later printing, with corrections. Spine faded, else a near fine copy. Biography of the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Murray spent 35 years of his life working on this project.