First US edition. Fonseca and Carolino’s inadvertent masterpiece has been called many things... "Perhaps the worst foreign phrasebook ever written" ... A book of "miraculous stupidities." "The most ludicrous foreign attempt ever made to teach our language." Most often under the title English as She Is Spoke...the mid-nineteenth-century Portuguese phrasebook.....

Later printing. A dictionary of a language spoken on Malaita in the Solomon Island. vi, 261, 16 pages. Pacific Linguistics, series C, no. 25. Second printing. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, slightly faded at the spine.

First Edition. Volume I: vii, 213, 16 pages. Series C, no. 31; Volume II: iv, 262, 14 pages. Series C, no. 42; Volume III: xi, 326, 10 pages. Series C, no. 45; Volume IV: iv, 436, 10 pages. Series C, no. 49; all in the Pacific Linguistics series. First editions.....

First Edition. xiii, 521, 15 pages. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 64. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy in a near fine, slightly spine-faded dust jacket.

x, 1292, 10 pages. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 13. Third printing (1978, corrected). A near fine hardcover copy in a very good, slightly spine-faded dust jacket.

First Edition. xiii, 361, 16 pages. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 51. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (a bit faded at the spine).