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. In original unclipped dust-wrapper. v+157pp. Light marks to dust-wrapper, just a tad dusty but a very good copy. Hardcover.

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Book number: 25081

Catalogue: Classics, Religion & Ancient World

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

ABAKUMOVA, A..(Ed.), Mary Mackintosh, Frank Wilson.

A Russian Science Fiction Reader: Seven Stories Provided by the Novosti Press Agency.

London, George G. Harrap, 1968. Original illustrated cloth, 128 pp. illustrated in b/w. Seven stories in Russian, stress indicated, comprehension questions, vocabulary. In very good condition. Barely used. Clean, tight and bright. Seven stories, stress indicated, comprehension questions, Attractive illustrations by Frank Wilson. Russian-English vocabulary by Mary Mackintosh. A scarce and interesting introduction to contemporary Russian science fiction during the Space Race.

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Book number: 37651

Catalogue: Hammer & Sickle

Keywords: Science Fiction|Reader|Slavonic|Linguistics |Featured|Russian

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

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

ABRAMOV, Fyodor

The Dodgers: [Vokrug Da Okolo] Translated by David Floyd.

London, Flegon Press in association with Anthony Blond, 1963. 8vo. in original unclipped dust-wrapper with design by T. O. Elmer. 174 pp. In good condiiton, clean and tight. Dust-wrapper with usual rubbing and very mild chipping to edges. Flegon/Blond publication of this semi-fictional essay (also known as Round and About) was a landmark in Abramov's career, as it caused him to be virtually barred from publication for five years. It describes the life of workers in a poorly administered collective farm". Cornwall, 74. This appears to be the only example of collaboration between notorious publisher Alec Flegon and Anthony Blond ""the last of the eponymous Jewish publishers whose chutzpah made publishing hum in the days before the conglomerates" (Michael Barber).

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Book number: 37908

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature|Emigré Literature|Featured|Russian|Translation

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

ADAMS, Waldemar J. (Ed.)

Sohlman Conversation Guide No. 3. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese: "Don't Say a Word, Just Point to the Pictures". Sohlman Interpreter. Illustrated Interpreter for All Countries. English-Français-Español-Português.

London, Hack (Sohlmans), 1946. Small square paperback, 11x17cm in original unclipped blue dust-wrapper, design in white, over black card printed covers with same design. 265 pp. many hundreds of small b/w illustrations, arranged thematically. In very good condition. Appears unused. No markings, no loss. Distributed by "Geographia" in London. First published in Stockholm, these interpreters drew from early picture dictionaries. With many hundreds of images in grids, numbered and corresponding to vocabulary and phrase lists in four different languages.

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Book number: 37967

Catalogue: Phrase-books Vintage & Early

Keywords: Featured|Dictionary|Europe|Phrase-Book

ADAMS, Waldemar J. (Ed.)

Sohlman Conversation Guide No. 1. English, French, German, Italian: "Don't Say a Word, Just Point to the Pictures". Sohlman Interpreter. Illustrated Interpreter for All Countries. English-Français-Deutsch-Italiano.

London, Hack (Sohlmans), 1946. Small square paperback, 11x17cm in original unclipped brown dust-wrapper, design in white, over black card printed covers with same design. 265 pp. many hundreds of small b/w illustrations, arranged thematically. In good plus condition, dust-wrapper a little rubbed at edges and age-darkened. Very light wear, no markings, no loss. Distributed by "Geographia" in London. First published in Stockholm, these interpreters drew from early picture dictionaries. With many hundreds of images in grids, numbered and corresponding to vocabulary and phrase lists in four different languages.

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Book number: 37968

Catalogue: Phrase-books Vintage & Early

Keywords: Featured|Dictionary|Europe|Phrase-Book

ADAMS, Waldemar J. (Ed.)

Sohlman Conversation Guide No. 1. English, French, German, Italian: "Don't Say a Word, Just Point to the Pictures". Sohlman Interpreter. Illustrated Interpreter for All Countries. English-Français-Deutsch-Italiano.

London, Hack (Sohlmans), 1946. Small square paperback, 11x17cm black card printed covers, design in white. 265 pp. many hundreds of small b/w illustrations, arranged thematically. In very good condition. Unmarked, no loss. No dust-wrapper. Distributed by "Geographia" in London. First published in Stockholm, these interpreters drew from early picture dictionaries. With many hundreds of images in grids, numbered and corresponding to vocabulary and phrase lists in four different languages.

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Book number: 37969

Catalogue: Phrase-books Vintage & Early

Keywords: Featured|Dictionary|Europe|Phrase-Book

ADAMS, Waldemar J. (Ed.)

Sohlman Conversation Guide No. 6. English, French, German, Norwegian: "Don't Say a Word, Just Point to the Pictures". Sohlman Interpreter. Illustrated Interpreter for All Countries. [Norsk].

Oslo, Sohlmans Wennergren-Cappelen, 1947. Small square paperback, 11x17cm red card printed covers, design in white. 265 pp. many hundreds of small b/w illustrations, arranged thematically. In good condition. Neat owner name inside. Unmarked, no loss. No dust-wrapper. Distributed by "Geographia" in London. First published in Stockholm, these interpreters drew from early picture dictionaries. With many hundreds of images in grids, numbered and corresponding to vocabulary and phrase lists in four different languages.

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Book number: 37970

Catalogue: Phrase-books Vintage & Early

Keywords: Featured|Dictionary|Europe|Phrase-Book

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

ADY, Endre (André, Andrew)

Ady ûbersetzungen. Deutsche, Französische Und Englische: Traductions Françaises, Allemandes Et Anglaises de Poêmes D'André Ady. German, French and English Translations of Poems of Andrew Ady Von, Par by Paul Làszlò.

Paris, Im Selbstverlage (By the author), 1925. Pamphlet, original printed wrappers, 23 pp. errata slip bound in. Professor Paul Falla's copy with his initials in pencil. Crisp, clean and tight. Paper browning a little. Endre Ady (Érmindszent 1877 - Budapest 1919) one of the most important poets not only in the 20th century but in Hungarian literature in general. These scarce translations were published in Paris a few years after the poet's death.

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Book number: 37980

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Hungarian|Featured|Poetry|Literature|Translation

ADZHUBEI, A. (Adjubey Aleksey)

Serebryanaya Koshka" ILI Puteshestviye 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

AGARD, [F. B. ] WILLIS [Raymond S], & PARATORE [Angela] (llus. Rand)

The Express Course in Basic Conversational Spanish: Record Plus Manual: Speaking and Writing Spanish. [Cover Illustration by Rand]

London, Daily Express, n.d. Colour illustrated boxed set (31 x 31 x4.5 cm) comprising hardback in original dust-wrapper, b/w plates, 165+lvi pp. in inner compartment, and two vinyl 33 1/3 RPM records in original sleeves. A very nice bright box and records. Very light signs of use. Clean and tight. Book showing some some signs of age and wear. Dust-wrapper torn. "To enable you to get so much more out of your travels whether on pleasure or business.".

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Book number: 37755

Catalogue: Vintage Language Records

Keywords: Spanish|Romance Language|Record|Vinyl|Linguistics |Featured|Book-Cover-Design