Author: OGDEN, C. K. (Paul D Hugon and L W Lockhart)
Title: Basic English Versus the Artificial Languages: Psyche Miniatures General Series. With Contributions by Paul D. Hugon and L.W. Lockhart.
Description: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1935. Original red cloth-backed cream coloured boards, printed in red with white label to spine. 12 mo.10x16cm. 184pp. Printed by R. I.Severs, Cambridge. 3/6 stamped over original printed 2/6. Spine a little sunned, boards and label a little aged but no tears. Some minimal foxing throughout. Tight and clean. 'E.W. Goodwin, 1949' to paste-down. One of the rarer titles in this series on BASIC (British American Scientific International Commercial) English developed by Charles Kay Ogden with I A Richards, and intended as a medium of international communication. Popular in the 1930s, its concepts are still taught.

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