Dictionary of American Regional English [Volume I - V]

  • Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985-2012
By CASSIDY, Frederic G. and Joan Houston Hall, eds
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985-2012. (Volume 1 a fourth printing; vols 2-5 first printings). Five volumes; thick quartos (28cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jackets; illus. throughout. Private bookplate to each volume; pencil note to title page of v.1; Near Fine in the original dustwrappers.

The first four volumes, covering the entries A - Sk, were published serially between 1985 and 2002. Due to long delays in completion of the project, Vol. 5 (Sl-Z) was not published until 2012, and was bound and jacketed in a new format. A supplemental Volume 6, containing dispersion maps and indexes, appeared in 2013 (not included here).

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