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MacDonnel, David Evans.
A DICTIONARY OF SELECT AND POPULAR QUOTATIONS, WHICH ARE IN DAILY USE. Third American Edition, Corrected, With Additions.
pp. (6), (vii)-x, (2), (13)-322, (2) [Publisher's catalogue]. Very foxed. Early manuscript ownership of James Booth on title page and first fly leaf. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Lacks spine labels. Title continues: 'Taken From The Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, And Italian Languages: Translated Into English, With Illustrations, Historical And Idiomatic'. S&S/AI 44649. Third American edition. Hardbound. Good. PAIMP 22
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Bolmar, Antoine.
A BOOK OF THE FRENCH VERBS. To Which Is Added, A Complete List Of All The Irregular Verbs. A New Edition.
pp. (3), (1)-173, 12 [Publisher's catalogue]. Foxed. Pages 11 to 14 loss of some letters. 12mo. 190 mm. Original leather spine over printed paper boards. Front board detached. Rear board very fragile. Binding worn and soiled. Title continues: 'Wherein The Model Verbs, And Several Of The Most Difficult Are Conjugated Affirmatively, Negatively, Interrogatively, Annegatively And Interrogatively. Containing Also, Numerous Notes And Directions.' Hardbound. Fair. SCARCE. PAIMP 23
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Bolmar, Antoine.
KEY TO THE FIRST EIGHT BOOKS OF THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS, THE SON OF ULYSSES.
pp. (3), (1)-273. Foxed. Text in English and French. All edges decorated in yellow. Early manuscript pencil inscription 'Formerly owned by Sam Parker, M.D'. 12mo. 180 mm. Original leather spine over marbled covered boards, worn. Spine worn. Front board detached. Hardbound. Good. French born Antoine Jean Claude Brunin de Bolmar (1797-1861) settled in Philadelphia in 1828. To escape an 1832 cholera epidemic, Bolmar moved to rural West Chester outside Philadelphia and engaged in writing text books. In 1834 he was convinced to take over running the West Chester Academy, which went on to become very popular. In 1840 he opened a boarding school for young men and boys. This school, known as Bolmar's Seminary, became one of the most successful educational institutions in the state, which caused Bolmar to gain fame and students from all over the Western Hemisphere. The school was open until 1859. S&S/AI 573. PAIMP 23
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Murray, Lindley (1745-1826).
THE ENGLISH READER, OR PIECES IN PROSE AND POETRY; Selected From The Best Writers.
263 p. Age stain. Early manuscript ownership of Miss Eliza Eckert Jan. 5th, 1824. Mildly XLib. XLib stamp of Lebanon County Historical Society on front paste down. 12mo. 180 mm. Original full leather binding, worn and scuffed. Original leather spine label. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Boards fragile. Hardbound. Good. Title continues: 'Designed To Assist Young Persons To Read With Propriety And Effect; To Improve Their Language And Sentiments; And To Inculcate Some Of The Most Important Principles Of Piety And Virtue.' From The Last English Edition. Born near Harrisburg, PA, Murray moved to a Quaker community in York, England, after the American Revolution. He wrote and published textbooks that came to be standard in dominate British and American schools during the first half of the 19th century. S&S/AI 6163. PAIMP 23
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Smet, Henrich.
PROSODIA HENRICI SMETII medicinae d. prom[p]tissima : qua syllabarum positione & diphthongis carentium quantitates, sola veterum poetarum auctoritate, adductis exemplis, demonstrat.
LACKS FIRST TWO LEAVES, INCLUDING TITLE PAGE pp. 12 [of 16], 19, 458, [10]. Small 8vo. 190 mm. **EARLY GERMANIC PLAQUE STAMPED ALUM TAWED VELLUM BINDING. The front board has a portrait of Martin Luther and on the rear board is a similar portrait of Philip Melanchthon. The boards are almost detached. No clasps. These plaque stamped bindings are rarely found in the current antiquarian book market. quite scarce. Several early ownerships including one (unidentified) from 1652. Later stamped ownership of William Harris. Henrich Smet (also Henricus Smetius Alostanus, Henricus Smetius a Leda, or Hendrik de Smet) (1535-1614) of Heidelberg was a physician and humanist scholar. The first edition of Prosodia came out in 1599 at Frankfurt. In 1603 Antoine de Harsy (fl. 1572-1607) published this second edition. It was a very popular anthology of Latin quotations and their authors that functioned as a kind of students' dictionary of phrases that could be quickly traced to the correct classical author. SAFE ADD 1
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JOHN MILLES
CORSO GRADUATO DI LINGUA INGLESE
In 8. Dim. 19x10,5 cm. Pp. XVI+793+(3). Edizione del 1838 di questo corso di lingua inglese di John Milles professore di lingua e letteratura inglese a Londra. All'interno trattato di pronunzia, scelta di aneddoti e brani storici con traduzione a fronte, Grammatica, una raccolta di brani scelti di autori celebri (Blair, Watts, Leland, Robertson, Hume, Aikin, Moore, Franklin, Hawkesworth, Kelley, Sterne, Goldsmith, Milton, Watts, Cowper, Thomas Moore, Shakespeare, Cowper, Pollock ecc...) con note. Bella legatura in mezza pergamena coeva con titolo in oro su tassello e decorazioni. In buone condizioni. Copertina in mezza pergamena con titolo in oro su tassello al dorso e decorazioni in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in buone condizioni con fioriture. Edition of 1838 of this course of english language by John Milles teacher of english language and litterature in London. Inside treaty of pronounciation, choice of anecdotes and historical texts with italian translation, Grammar, a collection of chosen texts of chosen authors (Blair, Watts, Leland, Robertson, Hume, Aikin, Moore, Franklin, Hawkesworth, Kelley, Sterne, Goldsmith, Milton, Watts, Cowper, Thomas Moore, Shakespeare, Cowper, Pollock ecc...) with notes. Beautiful half parchemnt cover with golden title and decorations in the spine. In good conditions. Half parchemnt coeval cover with golden title and decorations in very good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in good conditions with foxings.
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Tackels, Bruno
Walter Benjamin, une introduction
Mm 140x225 Collection "monographies". Brossura originale, 135 pagine di testo in lingua francese - french text. Copia in buone-ottime condizioni, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
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Sichère, Bernard
Le Moment Lacanien
Mm 135x220 Collana "Figures". Brossura originale, 212 pagine. Buona-ottima copia, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
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Collectif
La Langue Latine Langue de la Philosophie
Mm 170x240 Collana "Collection de l'École Française de Rome" - Actes du colloque organisé par l'École française de Rome avec le concours de l'Université de Rome "La Sapienza" - Brossura editoriale con bandelle, 364 pagine con interventi in italiano e francese - french-italian texts. Prefazione di Pierre Grimal. Opera in perfette condizioni di nuovo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY.
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Bisogno, Paolo - Caglioti, Giuseppe
Scienza Ed Arte. Radici Scientifiche dell'Estetica
Mm 140x220 Collana "Prometheus". Brossura originale, 170 pagine con figure in nero nel testo. Ottimo esemplare. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
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Jackson, Ian
The North West : The Media Network
Ex-library book with usual (but minimal) marks and stamps. A clean tight copy with unmarked boards and slight rubbing to spine ends. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with very light rubbing to edges and fading to spine and immediate margins of both covers. 96pp. An examination of the story of newspapers, radio and television in the North West of England.
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Fuchs, Stephen
The Aboriginal Tribes of India
No inscriptions or marks to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with bright very firm red cloth boards with a number of small marks and no bumping to corners. Page edges very slightly browned. Dust jacket not price clipped with a piece missing from front and a smaller piece from top of spine. 308pp. This is a comprehensive account of all the aboriginal tribes of the Indian sub-continent. For ease of presentation they are divided into five separate groups depending on geographical region. Firstly is given a prehistory of India followed by the origin of the aboriginal tribes and the tribes are then described in detail.
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Trease, G.E.
Aids to Pharmaceutical Latin
Second edition. No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. Very clean pages in a tight copy with very faintly marked boards brown cloth and no bumping to corners. 170pp. This book was published to assist the writing of prescriptions in the common form of abbreviated Latin. Includes some autograph prescriptions for practice in reading. With a wealth of medical, chemical and biochemical terms translations from Latin to English and a section on Latin grammar as a starter.
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Bayan, Rick (editor)
The Cynic's Dictionary
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with signs of handling. 128pp. Amusing new definitions for a little over 900 well-known English words, from a cynic's perspective. Examples include - Politician : a bundle of gaseous ambition cleverly packaged as a public servant or a corporate manager, - Neurotic : sane but unhappy about it, - Lottery : the equivalent of betting that the next pope will be from Dingwall, - Cult Film - a movie seen about fifty times by about that many people.
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Donaldson, Ethelbert Talbot
Essays and Studies 1976
Neat school stamp to three pages and English Dept on front end paper. No other 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 with a little rubbing and small nicks to some edges. 121pp. Volume twenty-nine of the new series of essays and studies collected for The English Association .
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Demeude, Hugues
The Animated Alphabet
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked, very lightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 174pp. An excellent study providing a historical text and a vast range of beautifully reproduced examples of illuminated and ornamental letters from the eighth to the twentieth century.
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Yates, May (editor) and Gibson, Wilfrid (intro)
A Lancashire Anthology
Light foxing to page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with slight faded slightly rubbed boards, dusty top of page edges and minor bumping to lower corners. Very scarce. 344pp. Lancashire dialect poems from thirty-four named and some anonymous writers, some well-known, some more scarce.
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Patterson, Austin M.
A German-English Dictionary for Chemists
Previous owner's neat name inside front cover and (in pencil) original price. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny nicks to upper edge of two pages and no bumping to corners. 541pp. Essential for the chemist searching German references or books.
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Freeman, Joan
Lettering & Calligraphy
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 127pp. Covers the whole field of lettering, calligraphy and illumination.
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Thurner, Reinhold
Structured Programming : Self-Instruction Course
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to oversize part of covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and traces of storage. 234pp. Sel-instruction course of structured programming with some example taken from the DELTA Programming Language.
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Mills, David
The Place Names of Lancashire
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 154pp. An A-Z gazetteer of the place names of Lancashier plus extensive background information about the history, patterns of settlement, topography, administration and language of the county.
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Miller, John; Waddell, Sid
Roots of England
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely 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 slight traces of storage. 208pp. Based on the BBC TV production for which the authors travelled to twelve English communities where they focused on a few people in each locality to understand their lives and to reflect their hopes and fears for their particular patch in the future. Their travels included The Black Country, Saddleworth, Hoghton, Ashington, Whitby, Hull's Docklands Hull, Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, Kersey, Bow in East London, Portland, St Just-in-Penwith and Guiting Power.
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Beer, Doris
T'Weaver's Web (Signed By Author)
Author signature on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp.
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McDermott, Bridget
Decoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs : How to Read the Sacred Language of the Pharaohs
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely 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 minor traces of storage. 171pp.
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Hoffman, Mary
Reading, Writing and Relevance
Previous owner's name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Appears unread. No creasing to covers, fine crease to faded spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 108pp. A collection of examples of reading and writing projects from everyday practice of UK teachers designed to encourage the teaching of reading through consideration of children's own goals and purposes and to offer models to teachers.
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Tinley, Lynne
Not on Your Nelly! : Australian Animal Sketches and Sayings
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 55pp. Australian language and birds and animals.
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Cavanagh, Bernard
Esperanto : A First Foreign Language for All Mankind
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. The case for an international common language and of Esperanto in particular as a universal means of uniting people of the world.
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McAdam, E. L. Jr. and Milne, George
Johnson's Dictionary : A Modern Selection
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small indent to front and minor creasing around spine foot. 465pp. The essence of the original 2,300 page dictionary first published in 1755 by Samuel Johnson.
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Welsh, Jim; Elder, John; Bustard, David
Sequential Program Structures
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges, faded spine and no bumping to corners. 385pp. The design of program structures of a sequential nature.
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Langland, William and Brook, Stella (editor)
Piers Plowman: Selections from the B Text (Manchester medieval classics)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, pages slightly tanned and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 168pp. This 14th century poem, written in the alliterative tradition is here fully translated into normal English, page by page.
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Gilyarevsky, R. S. & Grivnin, V. S.
Languages Identification Guide
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing and bumping to corners and light tanning to pages. 344pp. Translated from the original Russian, this guide comprises more than 200 languages in which nearly all of the world's printed matter is published including the ancient languages which played an important part in developing national cultures and lettering. Scarce. 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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Simmons, John Simon Gabriel
Russian Bibliography, Libraries and Archives
One page marked, removed, used elsewhere and re-inserted. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly water-marked front board (see image) and very minor bumping to upper corners. 76pp. Bibliography of Russian works and works written elsewhere relevant to Russia. 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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Nicholson, John Greer
Russian Normative Stress Notation (Signed By Author)
Presentation copy from the author to John Dumbreck inscription inside front board. Inlk highlighting to a number of pages. A very clean very tight copy with bright red cloth unmarked boards, slight darkening adjacent to spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with faint cup ring to front and some rubbing. Tucked in is a personal letter from the author to Professor Dumbreck. 169pp. A detailed study of Russian pronunciation and linguistics. Very scarce in the UK. 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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The Editor
Forum for Modern Language Studies : Scottish Number : Vol III No 3 July 1967
Initials JCD to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 201-318pp Scottish language, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Renaissance, Scottish literature, Scottish verse etc.
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Given, Jennie (arranged by)
The Harp of the Glen (Clarsach A' Ghlinne)
Slight foxing to page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bump to lower front corner. 36pp. Words (in Gaelic) and accompaniment of twenty-five songs. Undated, ca 1930s. Very scarce.
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Wood, Nicola
Scottish Place Names (Chambers mini guides)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Social history and language make up the vagaries of the place name of Scotland.
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Unbegaun, B. O.
A Bibliographical Guide to the Russian Language
Signed by JC Dumbreck inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, front end paper missing and very minor bumping to lower front corner. 174pp. A bibliography of the most importants works in Russian with particular reference to the student. Very scarce. 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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The Editor
A Welsh Literature Exhibition - Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Frenhinol Cymru
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with very slightly dusty unmarked boards, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 31pp. Catalogue of the Welsh Literature Exhibition at Colwyn Bay Public Library held as part of the 1947 Welsh National Eisteddfod. In Welsh and English.
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Hugo, Victor & Gaudon, Jean (editor)
Choix de Poemes
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint rub to front, trace of label removal from rear and no bumping to corners. 202pp. Poems by Victor Hugo, text in French.
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Ministry of Education
The Teaching of Russian
Signed JC Dumbreck to front cover. A number of removable notes/highlighting pencilled in. Whole booklet with some creasing. Very clean very tight pages with sunning to cover pages. 55pp. The Report of the Committee appointed by the Minister of Education and the Secretary of Sate for Scotland in 1960. 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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Dobbs, Lowell
Songs of a Lancashire Warbler
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 90pp. Poetry and verse from a well-known writer and orator of Lancashire dialect, whose real name was Malcolm Campbell (Mal-o-Bill's). Also a Glossary of Lancashire words and some old Lancashire sayings.
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Nordal, Sigurdur & Thomas, George R. (translator)
Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoda
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to end papers and minor bumping to upper corners. 75pp. English translation of this Icelandic Saga.
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General Register Office, Scotland
Census 1971, Scotland, Gaelic Report
Very small number of words underlined in ink. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 46pp. Taken from the 1971 National Census when two questions were asked - one was whether Gaelic was spoken and the other whether Gaelic could be read. The discussion and statistical findings are presented here. Very scarce. All text in English, some also in Gaelic.
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Koischwitz, Otto
Die Bilderfibel
Name to front end paper and foxing to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very tight lightly tanned pages with slightly soiled boards, sunned spine and minor bumping to some corners. 122pp. A condensed volume of the two books Deutche Fibel and Bilderlefebuch, omitting the nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Well illustrated. All text in German Gothic script.
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The Editor
Meddelelser No 29 - 1982 : Current transcription problems: Proceedings of the meeting of the Transcription Commission of the International Committee of Slavists, Oslo, August 1980
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 53pp. Proceedings of the meeting of the Transcription Commission of the International Committee of Slavists 1980. Keynote paper by Professor John Dumbreck. Text in Russian and English. 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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Thomas, Owen P.
Transformational Grammar and the Teacher of English
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny faint crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. An in-depth work designed for the pupil and the teacher of English.
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Drage, CL & Vickery, WN
An XVIIIth Century Russian Reader
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. 346pp. Sixty eight pieces of prose and verse from Russian writers, text in Russian. Notes in English over 160 pages.
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Scragg, D.G.
A History of English Spelling
At first glance, the book appears in fine condition but some pages are highlighted in ink. No other 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 minor traces of storage. 130pp. An outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day, showing the respective influences of native French and Latin.
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Haas, William H.
Phono-graphic Translation (Mont Follick Series)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 94pp. A study on the basic relationship between spoken and written language. Mont Follick Series, Volume 2.
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Haas, William H.
Alphabets for English (Mont Follick Series)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 120pp. A study of English spelling, with discussions about its reform. Mont Follick Series, Volume 1.
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