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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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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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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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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ANON

Hier Spricht Man Deutsch. English Spoken. Usual Expression and Common Conversational Phrases. Gebräuchliche Ausdrücke Und Gewöhnliche Sätze Der Umgangsprache. Pocket Polyglot Series. No. 2. Revised and Extended Edition.

London, Hachette, 1944. Original printed wrappers, stapled, 9 x 16 cm. 48 pp. Hachette slip over original E J Larby imprint. A good copy, light signs of use but clean and tight. Thematically arranged.

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Malayalam (English) Self-Instructor. 1st Edition - 500 Copies. Copy Right (Sic) with the Publishers.

Calicut (Kozhikode), K. R. Brothers Printing Works, 1927. Publisher's boards backed in cloth. One of only 500 copies printed. Unfortunately found to be tasty - insect damage to pages with some loss. However an interesting piece of ephemera. Mainly word lists arranged by subject. Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in India, and one of that country's 22 scheduled languages.

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ANON

Tourist's Vade Mecum of Dutch Colloquial Conversation: A Selection of Phrases in General Use, with Vocabularies, Tables, and Imitated Pronunciation.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman, 1930. Small 8vo. 10.5 x 17 cm. original red cloth lettered gilt to spine and upper board. ix+53 pp. A very good bright, clean copy. Spine a little sunned, small mark to lower board. Arranged thematically in three columns: English, Dutch, and Pitman method of imitated pronunciation in last column.

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APPLETON, G..

Three Months' Hard Labour. A Handbook for Learning Colloquial Burmese.

Jubbulpore, Burma, Burma Christian Literature Society, 1945. Small 8vo, bound in quarter cloth, paper covered boards, title in black to upper board. 64pp. Collectable; Very Good "Students of Burmese will note the debt which this small book owes to R. Grant Brown's Half the Battle in Burmese and J. A. Stewart's Introduction to Colloquial Burmese. Had either of these books been obtainable there would have been no need to write this book" . Hardback.

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BAEZA, L. de (Hartog)

Brush Up Your Spanish (Refresque Usted Su Español). With Illustrations by P.R. Ward. Conversations of Real Use. General Editor W.G. Hartog.

London, J. M. Dent, 1946. Revised edition. Twenty-third Thousand. Decorated cloth in original unclipped white dust-wrapper. Endpaper maps, xii+106pp. charming b/w illustrations throughout. In very good condition, clean and tight. First published in 1932. Humorous drawings and quaint phraseology depict a studiously uncritical portrayal of "abroad" during the inter-war period. The Brush Up series, first published in Rothermere's Daily Mail, is a fascinating reflection of certain British perspectives at the time. .

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BARTH, Dr W..

Metoula Sprachführer. Neugriechisch: Mit Angabe Der Aussprache Nach Dem System Der Methode Toussainte-Langenscheidt. Siebente Auflage.

Berlin-Schöneberg. Langenscheidtsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, n.d. Pocket phrasebook, paper-covered boards, 8x13 cm. with 16 pp publisher's catalogue. Seventh edition. Very good, clean and tight. No dust-wrapper. Modern Greek phrasebook for German speakers. Copyright date given 1913 but present volume later. Prices in RM to catalogue (i.e. 1924-1948). Advertising publications such as the "Neue Deutsche Rechtskunde" and' Abstammungs-Nachweis'.

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BENNETT.

Bennett's English Norwegian Phrasebook. A Selection of Phrases for Tourists Travelling in Norway. Sixth Revised and Enlarged Edition with a Norwegian-English Vocabulary.

Christiana, (Oslo) Norway, Benn,, n.d. Blind stamped orig. buckram, 267pp. (ii ads.). Possibly lacking f.e.p. spine starting, a little rubbed, inscr. 1902 but somewhat earlier, light wear generally but a nice clean copy. Bennetts advertise themselves as being the only tourist office in Norway (established 35 years).

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BENTLEY, C. A.

Express It in German a Beginner's Guide to German Conversation. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged.

London, The New Europe Publishing Co. Ltd, 1946. Landscape format, limp cloth stapled. 12cmx10cm. 112pp. Staples rusting a little, cloth a little marked, light signs of wear but no loss, clean and tight. An interesting post-war item both for the book itself and the publishing house. First published in 1945. Hardback.

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BONHOMME, J. and BULL, J..

L'Entente Cordiale. Parlez-Vous Français? Do You Speak English. Phrases Usuelles. Common Phrases. Pocket Polyglot Series. No. 1. Revised and Extended Edition. Nouvelle édition Revue Et Augmentée.

London, Hachette, 1930. New edition. Original printed wrappers, sewn, 9 x 16 cm. 48 pp. Light wear, but no loss. Name crossed out to upper cover, internally mainly clean with just a little underscoring to one page. Thematically arranged. The authors' names possibly a little tongue-in-cheek!.

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BOVET, F. F..

French Conversation for English Travellers. Cassells Pocket Reference Library.

London, Cassell and Company, Ltd, n.d. Original red cloth printed in black, slightly sunned at edges. A nice copy. Used; Very Good Probably published in 1920s possibly earlier. Under the section entitled "The Motor Car ", is the useful phrase "I am very sorry to have killed your dog. I did my best to avoid him." . Hardcover.

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BOYD, Andrew.

Guide to 14 Asiatic Languages.

London, Pilot Press, 1947. Original yellow cloth in original dust-wrapper, War Economy paper. Post-war publishing material but a good, clean tight copy. Owner name inscription to endpaper. Used; Very Good An interesting period work, written for : "The traveller visiting the newly-awakened East.. " Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Japanese, Chinese, Siamese, Burmese, Malay, Tamil, Bengali. Arranged in geographic groups as comparative word-lists. With an fascinating 'Hobson-Jobson' selection of 'Anglo-Asiatic' words commonly used by English people at the time. Hardcover.

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