A.M.D.G.

Kutaura Cirungu. Zezuru and English Phrase Book. New and Englarged Edition. Zakakudziridzwa.

Salisbury, Jesuit Fathers, 1939. Original card covers, stapled. 57pp. A good, clean copy with light wear and owner name to covers. Used; Good Zezuru is a dialect of the Bantu language Shona . Paperback.

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Book number: 33432

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Languages|African Language|Zezuru|Shona|Bantu|Featured

A BENEDICTINE OF STANBROOK ABBEY.

Mediaeval Mystical Tradition and St. John of the Cross. .

London, Burns & Oates, 1954. v+157pp. Light marks to dust-wrapper, just a tad dusty but a very good copy. Used; Very Good . Hardcover.

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Book number: 25081

Catalogue: Classics, Religion & Ancient World

Keywords: Biblical and Hebrew Studies|Bible Languages. Theology Mysticism|Featured

ABBEY, STATON

The Book of the Austin Seven and Eight. A Complete Guide for Owners of All Models with Details of Changes in Design and Equipment Since 1927. Pitman's Motorists Library.

London, Pitmans, 1948. Third Edition. Original cloth-backed boards, 118pp [ii]. Boards a little marked, slightly shaken but generally in good condition. No dust-wrapper. Illustrated in b/w throughout with many plates.

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Book number: 37332

Catalogue: Livres trouvés

Keywords: Cars|Automobiles|Manual|Featured

ABDEL-MASSIH, ERNEST T. ET AL.

A Comprehensive Study of Egyptian Arabic. Volume Three (3) a Preliminary Edition. A Reference Grammar of Egyptian Arabic. Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies.

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1981. Large paperback 8vo. xxi+322pp. Small crease to upper cover, owner inscription to f.e.p. else a very good, clean copy. Used; Very Good Volume three of the Reference Grammar. Paperback.

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Book number: 30945

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Featured|Grammar|African Language|Arabic|Egyptian Arabic|Semitic Language

ABERCROMBIE, DAVID

English Phonetic Texts. Studies in General Linguistics Edited by L.R. Palmer.

London, Faber & Faber, 1964. A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper. 125pp. Clean and tight. Collectable; Very Good Important work on phonetics. Abercrombie (1909 – 1992) established the Department of Phonetics at the University of Edinburgh. He was a student of J. R. Firth and Daniel Jones. Hardcover.

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Book number: 29764

Catalogue: Phonetics & Reform

Keywords: L R Palmer|Phonetics|Linguistics|Featured|Daniel Jones|R Firth

ABRAHAM, CAPTAIN R. C.

The Principles of Tiv.

London, Gregg, 1968. Original blue cloth. xiv+102pp. A very nice bright copy. Reprint. Used; Very Good Southern Bantoid Tivoid family, a branch of Benue-Congo of the Niger-Congo family. Spoken mainly in Nigeria. Hardcover.

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Book number: 30912

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Rev Malherbe|Tiv|African Language|Nigeria|Niger-Congo|Benue-Congo|Tiv Language

ABSE, DANNIE

Arcadia One Mile

London, Hutchinson, 1998. Paperback, 70pp. As New This collection of poems by Dannie Abse draw on the strengths and preoccupations of a long and distinguished career, with evocations of a Welsh childhood, and reinterpretations of bardic and Jewish mythology. Paperback.

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Book number: 26443

Catalogue: Celtica

Keywords: Dannie Abse|Welsh|Literature|Poetry|Verse|Judaica|Wales

ABUDARHAM, SAMUEL (ED.)

Bilingualism and the Bilingual an Interdisciplinary Approach to Pedagogical and Remedial Issues

London, NFER-NELSON, 1987. Paperback, 212pp. Used; Very Good With a chapter on bilingualism in Wales and one on Black English . Paperback.

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Book number: 27550

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: Speech Pathology|Bi-Lingual|Bilingual|Wales|Featured|Black English|Variant|Dialect

ACTON, ELIZA

Modern Cookery for Private Families.

London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1882. A clean, tight copy. Small 8vo. 12x18cm. original brown decorated cloth, xliii+643+[12]pp. 8 b/w plates (all present), in-text illustrations. Internally very clean with a little mild damp-spotting. Appears little used. Corners bruised, spine faded, ends chipped and upper hinge and joint cracked but tight and no loss. Two gatherings slightly protruding. Longmans catalogue for 1882 bound in. Used; Good Celebrated writer on cookery. Acton was the first person to introduce the now-universal practice of listing ingredients and giving suggested cooking times for each recipe. Hardback.

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Book number: 37141

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Cookery|Women|British|Antiquarian|Featured

ADAMU, M. & KIRK-GREENE, A.H.M.

Pastoralists of the West African Savanna International African Seminars.

Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1988. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 27509

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History|Africa|West Africa|West African Savanna|Pastoralists|Anthropology

ADZHUBEI, A. (ADJUBEY ALEKSEY)

Serebryanaya Koshka" ILI Puteshestviye Po Amerike. «Serebryanaya Koshka», ILI Puteshestvie Po Amerike

Moscow Moskva, Molodaya Gvardiya, 1956. A good, clean, tight copy. A little worn at spine. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Graphics director N Korobeinikov. Rodchenko influenced upper cover design. Used; Very Good An an account of his journey around America by Alexei Ivanovich Adzhubei (Samarkand, 1924 - Moscow 1993). Nicknamed 'the King of the Soviet Press' in the 1960s, Adzhubei was Khrushchev's son-in-law. After Nikita Khrushchev's sensational exposure of Stalin's crimes and the millions of victims in the gulag, Adzhubei became 'journalist number one' and moved in 1959 as editor to Izvestia. He transformed the paper from a 'dull rag' into a lively, intellectually stimulating publication. Serebryanaya koshka was published some 3 years before his epic 700pp work 'Face to Face with America'. Paperback.

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Book number: 35542

Catalogue: Hammer & Sickle

Keywords: Avant Garde|Travel|Russian|Featured|History|Photography

AESCHYLUS TRANS. BY HERBERT WEIR SMYTH.

Aeschylus I & II in Two Volumes. Complete. I: Suppliant Maidens; Persians; Prometheus; Seven Against Thebes. II: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, Fragments Loeb Classical Library. Loeb Classical Library.

London, Heinemann, 1946. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. Two volumes, complete. Used; Very Good Aeschylus I: Suppliant Maidens, Persians, Prometheus, Seven Against Thebes. II: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, Fragments trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth. Loeb Classical Library . Hardback.

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Book number: 36826

Catalogue: Classics, Religion & Ancient World

Keywords: Aeschylus|Loeb Classical Library|Ancient Greek|Classics|Featured

AGNIVTSEV, NIKOLAY

Blistatelnyi Sankt'-Peterburg'. [Brilliant St Petersburg]

Berlin, Izd-vo I.P. Ladyzhnikova, 1923. Cloth-backed boards with original decorated cover laid down. A little damp spotting and browning to paper, thumbing to some pages but overall very sound. Used; Good Nikolay Yakovlevich Agnivtsev (1888-1932) was a poet, dramatist and notably a children's author. He attended Petersburg University (but did not graduate). Agnivtsev contributed to "Satirikon" and various other journals. In 1917, he took part in "Bi-Ba-Bo" cabaret and wrote much of its repertoire. In 1921, in Berlin, he published his "St. Petersburg" verse collection. This present work is a new edition entitled "Blistatelnyi Sankt'-Peterburg'." [Brilliant St. Petersburg]. Hardback.

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Book number: 36390

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Satirikon|Literature|Poetry|Russian|Featured

AGNIVTSEV, NIKOLAY

Blistatelnyi Sankt'-Peterburg'. [Brilliant St Petersburg]

Berlin, Izd-vo I.P. Ladyzhnikova, 1923. A very good copy in original decorated covers. A very good copy. Used; Very Good Nikolay Yakovlevich Agnivtsev (1888-1932) was a poet, dramatist and notably a children's author. He attended Petersburg University (but did not graduate). Agnivtsev contributed to "Satirikon" and various other journals. In 1917, he took part in "Bi-Ba-Bo" cabaret and wrote much of its repertoire. In 1921, in Berlin, he published his "St. Petersburg" verse collection. This present work is a new edition entitled "Blistatelnyi Sankt'-Peterburg'." [Brilliant St. Petersburg]. Paperback.

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Book number: 36391

Catalogue: Russian Literature

Keywords: Satirikon|Literature|Poetry|Russian|Featured

AHMAD, ABD. SAMAD

Nakhoda Tenggang (Malay Reader) (Anak Derhaka - Riwayat Batu Keb)

Kuala Lumpur, Khee Meng Press, n.d. Not dated but around 1970. Pictorial coloured wrappers. Used; Very Good Entire text in Malay. Roman script. Paperback.

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Book number: 29864

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Featured|Book-Cover Design|Malay|Malayo-Polynesian|Austronesian

AHMAD, INCHE SULAIMAN BIN.

A Practice in Malay Conversation. Based on His 20 Years' Experience of Giving Malay Private Tuition to Europeans in Singapore.

Singapore, Marican and Sons, 1956. Cloth backed boards, 128pp. Tear to spine head, otherwise a very good copy. As pictured. Reprint. Collectable; Very Good 'Hashim Malay Book Seller' stamp to f.ep. First published by S. B. A. Publishing. This 1956 edition published by Marican in Orchard Road. With tests and examination papers. Paperback.

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Book number: 14776

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Singapore|South East Asia|Malaysian|Malay|Featured

AHN, F.

A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Swedish Language After the System of F. Ahn.

London, Franz Thimm,, 1858. Original buckram boards, spine lettered gilt (Lenström's Swedish Grammar), upper cover stamped in blind. vi+149pp. publisher's lists to endpapers. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Collectable; Very Good An interesting early example of language teaching theory: "The editor of this Grammar has followed the rational System.." c.f. Direct and Natural Methods. Hardcover.

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Book number: 33484

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

Keywords: Swedish|Scandinavian|Grammar|Antiquarian|Featured

ÄIMÄ, FRANS

Phonetik Und Lautlehre Des Inarilappischen. I: Beobachtungsphonetik Und Deskriptive Lautlehre. II: Instrumentale Messungen. Erste Lieferung. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia.

Helsinki, Société Finno-Ougrienne Harrassowitz, 1918. In two volumes, complete. Good, clean, tight copies. Ex public library retaining original printed wrappers. With b/w plates in back, complete. Scrape to vol I upper cover. Texts in German. Used; Very Good Inari Samis (Lapp) language. "Inari Sámi is a Sami language spoken by the Inari Sami of Finland. It has approximately 300 speakers, the majority of whom are middle-aged or older and live in the municipality of Inari. According to the Sami Parliament of Finland, 269 persons used Inari Sami as their first language. It is the only Sami language that is spoken exclusively in Finland. The language is classified as being seriously endangered as few children learn it " Wiki . Hardback.

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Book number: 36260

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Lapp|Sami|Sammi|Language|Finno-Ugrian|Featured|

AKHMATOVA, ANNA

Anno Domini. Stikhotvorenniya. Kniga Tretya. [Poems Book Three]. Vtoroe Dopolnennoe Izdanie

Peterburg, Petropolis, 1923. An excellent copy. Clean and tight, some pages unopened. Original wrappers printed in blue and black, 192x135mm. Annenkov's portrait of Akhmatova as frontispiece. [Petropolis & Alkonost, Berlin, 1922]. Printer's mark by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. Used; Very Good First published in 1921 as Anno Domini MCMXXI, this is the second and an expanded edition with new poems added. Paperback.

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Book number: 36084

Catalogue: Russian Avant-Garde

Keywords: Featured|Russistica|Akhmatova|Russian Avant Garde|Literature|Poetry|Dobuzhinski

AKHMATOVA, ANNA

Belaia Staia [White Flock] Belaya Staya

Petrograd, Giperborei, Hiperborei, 1917. A good, tight copy in original fragile printed wrappers. Small piece missing to lower corner, spine a little chipped, faint cup-ring to upper cover, two small holes to lower cover. Usual browning to paper. Used; Good First edition of Akhmatova's third collection of poetry. Paperback.

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Book number: 36058

Catalogue: Russian Avant-Garde

Keywords: Featured|Russistica|Akhmatova|Russian Avant Garde|Literature|Poetry

AKHMATOVA, ANNA

Chetki [the Rosary] Vtoroe Izdanie

Petrograd, Giperborei, Hiperborei, 1915. Original printed wrappers, upper cover present but detached, lacks backstrip and possibly lower cover, edges turned, sewing adrift in places. Pages sound, clean and complete, nothing torn. Used; Good Second edition of Akhmatova's 1914 poetry collection. Only 1000 copies were printed of the first edition which immediately achieved tremendous acclaim. Paperback.

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Book number: 36083

Catalogue: Russian Avant-Garde

Keywords: Featured|Russistica|Akhmatova|Russian Avant Garde|Literature|Poetry

AKHMATOVA, ANNA. (REEDER, HEMSCHEMEYER)

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer. Edited & Introduced by Roberta Reeder.

Boston, Zephyr Press, 2000. A good, clean, tight copy. Barely used but small mark to spine. 948pp. b/w illustrations. Text in English. Used; Very Good First published in 1990, Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition. This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, Encyclopaedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. Paperback.

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Book number: 36922

Catalogue: Russian Avant-Garde

Keywords: Akhmatova|Russian|Avant Garde|Featured|Literature

AKHMATOVA, ANNA (TRANS. BY JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER, ED. AND INTRO. BY ROBERTA REEDER)

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Polnoye Sobranie Sochinenii

Somerville, Mass. Zephyr Press, 1990. Very nice bright copies in original unclipped dust-wrappers. Very clean and tight. xxxviii+650pp. xl+871pp. over 100 b/w illustrations from photographs. Heavy set. Extra charges may be requested for shipping overseas. Used; Very Good Over 800 poems given in original Russian and English translation, with chronology, notes, bibliography, indices. Biographical introduction by Roberta Reeder: more than 125 photographs, including a 65 page photo biography, and 'The Artist's Muse' images of Akhmatova in art: memoir by Isaiah Berlin: comprehensive notes to the poems: index of first lines: bibliography. Hardback.

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Book number: 37090

Catalogue: Russian Avant-Garde

Keywords: Akhmatova|Featured|Literature|Poetry|Russian

(AKHMATOVA, ANNA) YOURI MOLOK.

A` L'Occasion de la Centenaire de Anna Akhmatova. Exhibition Held at Muse´E de L'Art Russe Contemporain, March 6-April 6, Paris. (Catalogue) Obraz Poeta, Obrazy Poezii.

Paris, Muse´e de l'art russe contemporain, Union des peintres de l'URSS, 1989. Tall quarto, illustrated covers, unpaginated, [28pp.] 2,000 printed. A very nice bright copy as new. Used; Very Good Reproductions of drawings, paintings and photographs relating to Anna Akhmatova. Text in French. Catalogue et conception de l'exposition, Youri Molok. Paperback.

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Book number: 33983

Catalogue: Russian Avant-Garde

Keywords: Russian|Literature|Akhmatova|Featured|Poetry

AKHMATOVA, ANNA (MSTISLAV DOBUZHINSKY)

Podorozhnik [Plantain]. Stikhotvoreniia

Petrograd Petersburg, Petropolis, 1921. A very attractive publication. A good copy. Clean and tight. 9x12cm, original rather fragile printed decorated covers in yellow and black, Yapp edges. Owner's initials and date 1921 neatly to f.e.p. Upper cover detached but intact and present; edges a little chipped in places, internally excellent. Cover design, frontis. and publisher's mark by the artist Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. One of 1000 printed. Used; Very Good First printing of this collection of 38 poems written between 1917 and 1919. Hellyer 610. Kilgour 7. Paperback.

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Book number: 36051

Catalogue: Russian Avant-Garde

Keywords: Literature|Russian|Russian Avant Garde|Book-Cover Design|Featured|Russistica|Akhmatova