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

[A. F. Marx ?. ?. ????? Publishing and Printing Company].

Niva ???? 1907 - Issues 1 - 52. Complete Year. Illyustrirovannii Zhurnal Literatury I Sovremennoi Zhizni. ???????????????? ?????? ??????????, ???????? ? ??????????? ?????. ? 1-52. 1907 ???. Illustrated Journal of Literary and Contemporary Life.

St. Petersburg C -Peterburg. ??´???-???????´??, A. F. Marx ?. ?. ????? , 1907. Quarto, 23 x 30 cm. Contemporary library periodical binding in quarter leather, title and date gilt stamped to spine. Complete 52 issues for 1907 with index. c. 16 pp per issue. 858 pp. paginated consecutively. Illustrated throughout in b/w. Heavy - weighs 2.5 Kg. Condition is fair to good. Binding marked, showing signs of age and wear. Internally most is in good condition and all pages clean. Some preliminary pages are loose with no loss, joint cracked towards back with corresponding detaching of leaves. However no loss. Three small cuttings have been taken from respective pages. N. Oblonsky's name neatly stamped in Roman letters to f.e.ps. and a number of early pages. Niva [????] popular magazine published between 1870 and 1918 founded by noted publisher A. F. Marx. The periodical defined itself as "an illustrated weekly journal of literature, politics and modern life." Along with more genre type illustrations and literature, these 1907 issues include work by Aleksandr Blok, Nadezhda Teffi, Kornei Chukhovsky, Polyxena Solovyova (Allegro), Valery Bryusov Bilibin and Michail Nesterov amongst others. Many articles cover new science, one is on the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. Lighthouses, hot-air balloons, psephographs all feature. In one issue is an uncommon photograph of the Imperial family. There is a feature on Lev Tolstoi and many photographs of the members of the State Duma [??????????????? ????. Gosudarstvennaya Duma].

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Book number: 38758

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Russian|Russian Avant Garde|Russia|Featured|Literature|Poetry

AåSE-BERIT and STRANDSKOGEN, Rolf

Norwegian: An Essential Grammar: Essential Grammars [Series]. Second Edition. Translated by Barbara White.

London, Routledge, 1989. Large p/b.202pp. Provides an accessible description of the language. Focusing on real patterns of use in the modern language. Suitable for independent study or for class-based tuition.

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Book number: 38142

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Grammar|Germanic|Featured|Scandinavian

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

ABBOTT, P. and PINAK, E..

Ukrainian Armies 1914-55: Men-at-Arms. 412. Reprint.

Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2008. Large p/b. 48ppp. illustrated in b/w and colour throughout. In very good condition, clean and tight. Summary of the varying Ukrainian armed forces and of their uniforms and insignia. Illustrated in colour with a selection of rare photographs, dating from the Great War to the aftermath of World War II until the mid-1950s.

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Book number: 38524

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Ukraine|Military|Featured|Soviet Union|World War I|World War II|Central Europe

ABBOTT, Edwin A. [c.f. pseudonym A. Square ].

Via Latina: A First Latin Book. Including Accidence, Rules of Syntax, Exercises, Vocabularies, and Rules for Construing. [by the Author of "Flatland"].

London, Seeley and Co., 1901. Early edition (145th thousand). Original maroon cloth, title gilt to spine, and stamped to upper board in blind with price 3/6. xvi+328pp. Edges a little rubbed from use. "T? Darling Matchett's" name in ink neatly to front endpaper, dated 1902. Abbott's best-known work is his 1884 - the 'mathematical' or science fiction novella "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions". "Via Latina: A First Latin Book" was first published in 1880 and sold around the world. According to the Imperial War Museum database, the presumed owner of the book, Darling Matchett was a conscientious objector.

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Book number: 38648

Catalogue: Classics, Religion & Ancient World

Keywords: Science Fiction|Featured|Classics|Latin

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

ABONDOLO, Daniel.

The Uralic Languages. Routledge Language Family Descriptions.

London & New York, Routledge, 1998. 8vo. hardback, xxiv+619pp. maps. In excellent condition. A very nice hardback copy. Clean and tight, barely used. Owner name neatly to half-title.

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Book number: 38245

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Reference|Uralic|Finno-Ugric|Linguistics |Featured

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|Featured

Academia de la Llingua Asturiana

Gramática de la Llingua Asturiana Tercera Edición.

Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2001. P/b. 442pp. As new. Unused, crisp and clean. Asturian is a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Asturian is part of a wider linguistic group, the Asturleonese languages. The number of speakers is estimated at 100,000 and 450,000.

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Book number: 38406

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Indo-European|Spain|Featured|Romance Language|Grammar|Iberian

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