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Ward, Dennis
The Russian Language Today (Signed By Author)
Inscribed to John (Dumbreck) by the author on front end paper. Notes and a little highlighting to some pages. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a little bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with very slight marking and dustiness, sunned spine and rubbing to edges and corners. 297pp. The system or structure of modern Russian and the way in which it is organized is described in this study. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Barnard, H. C.
History of English Education from 1760
Name to half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with tiny mark to rear and rubbing/nicks to edges and corners. 364pp. The story of educational development from the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution to the late 20th century.
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Bridge, Maureen; Pegg, John
Call to Arms: A History of Military Communications from the Crimea War to the Present Day
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to lower corners. 208pp. From the flare of torches and sunlight on shields through Morse Code and Enigma to today's computers, this is the story of military communications across the ages.
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Kane, George
Middle English Literature
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very faintly sunned boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 252pp. Detailed critical study of the Middle English Metrical Romances, Religious Lyrics and the vision of Piers Plowman.
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Brown, Carleton (editor)
Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with well-sunned spine and sunning to cover margins. Lovely gilt lettering on spine. 394pp. One hundred and ninety two pieces are given here, each in their original Middle English. Plus notes to each piece (sixty pages), a thirty-eight page glossary and an index to first lines. Scarce in the UK
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Pepper, John
What a Thing to Say
Neat inscription to title page. No other marks and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with faint cup rings to front and no bumping to corners. 62pp. A collection of Ulster dialect gems from the Belfast Telegraph writer.
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Dean, Joan & Goodacre, Elizabeth & Root, Betty
Teaching Young Readers. Part 1 Age 4-9.
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper rear corner, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 144pp. A practical help and advice guidebook for teachers for the development of reading and writing skills in young children.
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Dudley, G. A.
The Ethel Cotton Course in Conversation (set of 12 books in slipcase)
No marks or inscriptions to 12 booklets and no creasing to covers - all in fine condition. Lovely clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Slipcase in good condition with rubbing and slight marking mainly to sunned spine. Total of 288pp. A self-help guide to improving one's conversation. In addition to the 12 booklets, the slipcase holds 12 envelopes each with a different Studio Talk leaflet and a set of model answers to the questions in each of the 12 booklets.
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Ren Lexander
The Complete Guide to Translating Australian Bullshit
Name/number inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, and slight rubbing to corners. 88pp. Humorous book showing how Australians say one thing but mean another with all the examples you could ask for. Scarce.
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Dorothy Sword Bishop
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse (Fables Bilingues)
Inscription in French. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to front cover, faint creasing to fore edge of last few pages. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 72pp. An illustrated children's story, told in French in one half of the book and in English in the other half. Scarce in the UK.
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G. S. Fraser
Metre, Rhyme and Free Verse (The Critical Idiom)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 88pp. An attempt to outline the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English versification.
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Isamu Kurita
Setsugetsuka no kokoro (Japanese Identity)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing to upper and lower edges and faint indenting. 191pp. In this study of Japan, Professor Kurita lifts away the veil that hides the Japanese nation's special traits and contrasts them with the West. Text in English and Japanese. Very well illustrated in colour.
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Martin, Judy
The Complete Guide to Calligraphy : Techniques and Materials
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning around spine and general traces of storage. 160pp. A comprehensive work on the art of 'beautiful writing' including its development, practical aspects, contemporary letterforms and alphabets and its application.
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W. Haas
Standard Languages: Spoken and Written
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and tiny bump to lower rear corner. There are actually two copies of the dust jacket, one inside the other, one is perfect. the other is near fine. 192pp. A series of essays by distinguished contributors which express the opinion that in the future there will be a powerful trend towards linguistic standardisation across the globe. In the Mont Follick Series.
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Skeat, Rev Walter W. (editor)
The Lay of Havelok the Dane
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with dull unmarked olive/brown boards, slightly dusty page edges and very minor bumping to upper corners. 171pp. At one time thought to have been lost, this 13th century work was (re)discovered in the 19th century. It concerns Gryme the Fisher, the founder of Grymesby (Grimsby), Havelok the Dane and his wife Goldborough. Much work has been put into its translation from Early English and details of this work are included as well as a lengthy Glossarial Index. Introduction dated 1902. Very scarce early edition.
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D. J. Allerton
Essentials of Grammatical Theory: A Consensus View of Syntax and Morphology
No marks or inscriptions. Small very faint crease to upper rear corner, A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 310pp. A sound basic introduction to the study of grammar and linguistics, concentrating on the core of grammatical theory.
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The Editor
Manual of German Air Force Terminology
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to lower corner of ftont cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage including rubbing to upper front edge and bumping to top of spine. Total of 322pp. A comprehensive German to English manual covering the terms in use in general, aeronautical, signals, electrical, flak, motor transport and abbreviations.
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Esdaile, Ernest
The Art of Speaking
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or creased with faint marking and a few small tears to edges. 53pp. Written by a lecturer who has given talks on elocution on the BBC, this little book is described as a gem to help one with public speaking. Scarce.
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The Editor
Fundamentals of Good English - plus - Good English : How to Speak and Write It. (Parts 1-5)
Six booklets in total. A little highlighting to the first - 'Fundamentals of Good English'. No marks or inscriptions to any of the other five. Minor creasing to oversize parts of brown paper covers only. Six very clean very tight booklets with unmarked boards and slight rubbing to spines. Total of 384pp. First book covers Punctuation and Fundamental Grammar and Good English Usage. The other five booklets cover Self-Expression : Conversation with sub-headings of Spelling, Pronunciation, Punctuation, Correct Usage, Literature and Life and Vocabulary. Undated ca 1938.
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Lin, Adet & Anor
Our Family
Name on second front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked yellow cloth boards and minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with pieces missing from ends of sunned spine, tears to some corners and rubbing/creasing to upper edge. 285pp. Written by the two young daughters of Lin Yutang, famous author of The Art of Living. Having already travelled extensively, the contrasts they draw between the China they remember and other countries visited are singularly acute and illuminating. Scarce.
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Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)
Tufts of Heather : Second Series
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright navy cloth boards, very small mark to front, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Spine not faded or sunned 296pp. With two long and sixteen short stories of Edwin Waugh's Lancashire dialect sketches in this Second Series plus two drawings. Undated, ca 1890.
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Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)
Tufts of Heather : First Series
Signed by George B Horridge, ex-soldier and Lancashire cricketer to front end paper, tucked in are brief synopses and a calling card from Mrs Horridge of Elton Lodge, Bury. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright navy cloth boards, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges and bumping to corners and to rear edges. Spine not faded or sunned 296pp. With six of Edwin Waugh's Lancashire dialect sketches in this First Series plus four drawings and engravings. Undated, ca 1890.
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Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)
Rambles in the Lake Country and other Travel Sketches
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright very faintly spotted front navy cloth board, unmarked rear, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges and minor bumping to spine ends. Large fold-out map at rear slightly torn and creased at extremeties. Spine not faded or sunned 290pp. With ten chapters on the author's travels in parts of the Lake District and other areas of Europe. Includes some Lancashire dialect talks with the locals plus twenty-seven drawings and a map of the Lake District. Undated, ca 1890.
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Waugh, Edwin and Milner, George (editor)
Lancashire Sketches : First Series
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked navy cloth boards, clear gilt lettering to front and spine, slightly dusty page edges, minor bump to top of spine, decorated end papers and no bumping to corners. Spine not faded or sunned A 44 page introduction plus 274pp. With five tales from the author's travels around Lancashire plus a Christmas story, including much Lancashire dialect plus frontispiece photograph of Edwin Waugh. Undated, ca 1890.
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Waugh, Edwin & Milner, George (editor)
Chimney Corner
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges, rubbing to top of spine and minor bumping to corners. Clear gilt lettering to spine and front board. Spine not faded or sunned. 292pp. Dialect tales of old Lancashire, many autobiographical. Undated ca 1890.
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Hutchings, R. S.
The Western Heritage of Type Design
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny rub to upper rear corner, traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with irregular sunning to all surfaces. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 127pp. A treasury of currently available typefaces demonstrating the historical development and diversification of form of printed letters selected and arranged with an introduction, commentaries and reference appendices.
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Halliday & Dickins (editors)
Yorkshire Dialect Prose : Second Series
No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease across whole booklet. A very clean very tight copy with no bumping to corners. 28pp. Twelve entirely dialect pieces by Yorkshire writers. Scarce second series.
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Cogan, Jenny & Flecker, Mary
Dyslexia in Secondary School: A Practical Handbook for Teachers, Parents and Students
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to lower corners of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Appears hardly to have been read. 339pp. A study of dyslexia in secondary schools, why dyslexic students frequently underachieve and how adjustments in teaching and learning methods can make a big difference.
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Agard, John
The Calypso Alphabet
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Unpaginated. Now protected in a fully-removable transprent sleeve. 28pp. An alphabet book written in rhyme which captures the feeling of the Caribbean islands using both words and the brightly coloured paintings which accompany every page.
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Glover, A. J.
Enrich Your English
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 102pp. A sel-help manual of exercises designed to build one's vocabulary in a variety of ways,
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Nesfield, J. C.
Oral Exercises in English Composition
Very neat name/address to front end paper. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with very slightly marked/foxed boards, dusty page edges, minor loss of text to spine and no bumping to corners. 216pp. An in-depth manual of oral exercises to provide a better understanding and knowledge of the English language. Scarce in the UK.
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Sutherland, Jmes (editor)
The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to some edges. 382pp. A collection of almost 500 worthwhile anecdotes from over 1000 years of memoirs.
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Hamm, Josef
Das Glagolitische Missale von Kiew (Schriften der Balkankommission, Linguistische Abteilung) (German Edition) (Signed By Author)
Appears unread. Inscribed by the author to Professor John S Dumbreck on the title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovel clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 156pp. The Glagolitic Missal was transliterated into Latin script since knowledge of Glagolitic script was already in great decline by 1927. Glagolitic script was only used for the Ordinary of the Mass and in parallel to the same in Latinized script. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. Scarce. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Forsyth, J.
A Grammar of Aspect : Usage and Meaning in the Russian Verb
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards, very slight sunning to extreme ends of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 386pp. The Extra Volume in the series Studies in the Modern Russian Language. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Benson, Morton (compiler)
Dictionary of Russian Personal Names
Signed 'J C Dumbreck' to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked turquoise cloth boards, slight softening of spine ends and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket clipped but not marked with a little sunning and nicks, chips and small tears to edges. 175pp. This work describes the tendencies in the accentuation of Russian surnames and with a guide to stress and morphology, it covers approximately 23,000 selected surnames. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Patrick, George Z.
Roots of the Russian Language
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 239pp. A standard reference work with 450 of the most fruitful roots of the Russian Language. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Bloomfield, Leonard
Language (Unwin University Books)
Signed J C Dumbreck 1972 to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 566pp. A classic work on Language, across an international field and an invaluable aid to all students of or those with an interest in comparative philology. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Morison, W. A.
Studies in Russian Forms and Uses : The Present Gerund and Active Principle
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked anthracite cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket clipped but not price clipped and not marked or torn or creased. 75pp. Based on sentence gathered from Russian literature and illustrating the Present Gerund and Active Participle, the author provides a translation, word-stress, pronunciation and sentence-stress. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Gairm : Autumn 1962 - No 41
Damp mark to upper edge of a number of pages and of rear cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, tiny nick to front edge and no bumping to corners. 152pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.
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Verderber, Rudolph; Verderber, Kathleen
Communicate!: With CD-Rom and Infotrac
Shrink-wrapped mint book with enclosed CD-ROM. pp. Learn the skills of human communication - in the interpersonal group and public communication - speech builder, ethics and comparison with experts. Scarce in this condition in the UK.
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Baker, Louis
C. Tools for Scientists and Engineers (Computing that works)
Name crossed out inside front cover, on bottom of page edges and less obviously, on front cover. No inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of rear cover, none to spine. Very clean very tight pages with bright (otherwise) unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 324pp. A guide to writing and to using the supplied easily modified programmes in the C language.
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Stott, Rebecca & Snaith, Anna & Rylance, Rick
Making Your Case: A Practical Guide to Essay Writing
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 158pp. A valuable opportunity for the reader to investigate and learn about the processes of academic writing including chapters on collecting information, identifying an argument, designing a plan and editing, proof reading and referencing.
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Purdum, Jack J.
C. Programming Guide
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Very minor creasing to rear, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 250pp. An excellent learning tool for the C software language.
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Hancock, Leslie; Krieger, Morris
The C Primer
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 235pp. An excellent learning tool for C, the software language. Scarce in the UK.
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Purdum, Jack J.; Etc.
C. Programmer's Library
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower front corner and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower front corner pages. 366pp. A tool to help you develop more advanced, generalized library functions with C programming. Very scarce in the UK.
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Jamsa, Kris
The C. Library
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 294pp. With over 125 carefully structured routines ranging from macros to UNIX utilities.
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Lunder, Siri Sverdrup
The Trondheim Russian-German MS Vocabulary: Contribution to 17th Century Russian Lexicography
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Original manuscript printed on about 150 pages plus 347pp. A 17th century Russian-German MS vocabulary is reproduced in this book in facsimile. The remainder of the book is explanation, discussion, translation, bibliography and an attempt to trace the manuscript's provenance and history. Very scarce in the UK.
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Forbes, Nevill & Dumbreck, J. C.
Forbes' Russian Grammar : Third Edition Revised and Enlarged by J. C. Dumbreck
Book and jacket in mint condition. 438pp. Third edition of the classic Russian language study revised and enlarged by J. C. Dumbreck From the new book 'store' of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
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Axtell, Roger E.
Do's and Taboos of Public Speaking
The word 'this' written small in ink on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 201pp. A self-help guide to Public Speaking or 'How to get those butterflies flying in formation'.
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Bentley, Carol A. E
I Want to Buy Your Product... Have You Sent Me a Letter Yet?:
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 158pp. .'How to create powerful sales letters, advertisements, ffyers, brochures, web pages and newsletters that persuade hundreds or even thousands of customers and clients to buy from you!'.
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