HARTOG, WG and TOPLISS, K. I.

Brush Up Your French Again (Repolissez Votre Français): Conversations by W.G. Hartog. Revised by K.I. Topliss. With Illustrations by (P.R. ) Ward.

London, J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1958. Revised edition. Decorated cloth in original printed and decorated price-clipped dust-wrapper, viii + 112pp. occasional b/w illustrations in-text. Mapped endpapers. In very good condition, dust-wrapper a little chipped at spine ends. First published in 1950. Based on the popular pre-war Brush Up series. Hardcover.

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HARTOG, W.G.

Travel French: Edited by W.G. Hartog.

London, J M Dent and Sons Ltd, 1938. Revised edition. Original cloth printed in red, no dust-wrapper, viii+112pp. Cloth a little grubby from time, endpapers slightly browned but generally clean and tight. No marks, no loss. Notably this work uses the I.P.A. (International Phonetic Alphabet).Arranged thematically. Based on the popular Brush Up series. As Dent often published Linguaphone's textbooks, this edition carries an encouragement to invest in a 'Linguaphone Course'.

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HECKER, Oscar (Besson, Loewenthal)

Vocabulaire Systématique Français-Russe a 20: D'Aprés le Texte Allemande de Oscar Hecker Traduit En Français Par P. Besson Et En Russe Par le Dr. Guillaume Loewenthal. Russko-Frantsuzskii Sistematicheskii Slovar'. Prof. Heckers Wortschatz Für Unterricht Und Reise.

Berlin, B Behr, 1907. Presumed first edition, may be later. Publisher's list (to endpapers) dated 1907. Decorated and lettered cloth, 312 pp. In excellent condition, crisp, tight and clean inside. Just a little rubbed at edges. Vocabulary and phrases arranged thematically.

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HOLLIS, Elsa Olga.

Mistress and Mädchen: A Comprehensive German and English Domestic Phrase-Book with Simple Recipes in Both Languages.

London, For R[ichard] Cobden-Sanderson by Shenval Press, 1937. Third impression. First edition May 1937, this reprint November. Small 8vo. original cellophane dust-wrapper, cloth-backed paper-covered boards, distinct Shenval Press typography in red and black. 128 pp. In very good condition. Clean and tight. Cellophane wrapper a little torn. Interesting social document published in the wake of refugees arriving from Germany and Austria seeking work. As a work published by printer and designer R Cobden-Sanderson and Shenval Press, important trade printers, it suggests an intriguing back story. See Olga Kerziouk (2016) British Library blog and AJR Journal February 2013.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Featured|Judaica|Women|Cookery|Travel Guide|Phrase-Book|Book-Cover-Design

HUFFORD, Caroline M. with ELIADOU, Miss Ileana.

Greek in Your House. A Practical Greek-English Handbook for Home Use.

Nicosia, Zavallis, n.d. Original printed wrappers. 158pp. Not dated but probably 1956. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Almost as new. Barely used. Mild browning of edges. Prof. P. S. Falla's copy with his name in pencil inside. Arranged thematically. Incl. 7pp ads. How to speak to your Greek maid with the usual stock phrases: "Do not clean the silver with Vim".

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KANY, Charles E and FIGUEIREDO, Fidelino de

Elementary Portuguese Conversation.

Boston etc, D. C. Heath, 1942. Original printed wrappers, stapled, 56pp. Very light wear but clean and tight. Used; Very Good 15 dialogues with notes in English and glossary at back. Aimed at first year students. First in a popular series. Paperback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Portuguese|Reader|Language|Beginners|Featured|Phrase-Book

KEATING, Leslie

Wales by Car

Kenneth Mason Publications Ltd, 1977. P/b. 144pp. 10cmx11cm, a good, clean, tight copy. Used; Very Good Very seventies and pleasantly nostalgic. One of a series. Paperback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Wales|Travel|Guidebook|Featured|Welsh

LOMBARD, Alf.

Svensk-Fransk Parlör. Guide de Conversation. Med Uttalsbeteckning. (French for Swedish Speakers).

Paris, Garnier Frères, 1929. Original printed limp cloth in red. 120 pp. 12 x 13 cm. A very nice bright and tight copy, cloth just a little darkened at edges, very slight fraying to leading edge. French conversation guide for Swedish speakers. Arranged by subject in three columns: Swedish, French, and pronunciation guide to French in third column. The author was a Swedish philologist and specialist in the Romance languages.

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Sonstige Stichworte: French|Romanian|Travel|Phrase-Book|Featured

LUND, H..

A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Danish and Norwegian Languages. Including Rules for Pronunciation, Exercises, Reading Lessons, Vocabularies of Useful Words, Dialogues, Extracts from Danish Authors, Etc. Etc. New Edition.

London, Hachette, 1914. Original maroon cloth,137pp. small hole to upper board, cloth bubbling, owner's neat insc. to fep but generally a good, clean tight copy. Very Good Advertisement for Delmas Tableaux Muraux - pictorial vocabulary in back. Hardcover.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Danish|Norwegian|Germanic Language|Course|Dano-Norwegian|Featured|Phrase-Book

LYALL, Archibald

A Guide to the Languages of Europe: A Practical Phrase-Book. Second Edition (Revised).

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1935. Small 8vo. 12x17 cm in original splendid, and very rare, orange and black Art Deco dust-wrapper. Small pieces torn from dust-wrapper spine and back, book in very good condition, clean and tight. Languages arranged partially geographically partially by language family. Early revised edition of this often reprinted, and wonderfully practical guide. Including not only all the major European languages but Estonian, Lettish (Latvian), Albanian and Esperanto! Colour indexed. Lyall was also the author of a number of travel books including "The Balkan Road".

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Sonstige Stichworte: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Rumanian|German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian|Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croat, Bulgarian|Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Lettish, Lithuanian|Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Arabic, Esperanto,|Featured|Book-Cover-Desi

MAYER, Anton

Serbokroatisch - Für Jugoslawien. Metoula Sprachführer. Mit Angabe Der Aussprache Nach Der Methode Toussaint-Langenscheidt. 13. Auflage.

Berlin and Munich, Langenscheidt. 1964. 13th edition. 8 x 13.5cm. in original plasticated covers and printed dust-wrapper. 200 pp. Very good condition. Dust-wrapper a little chipped and yellowed at edges. First published in 1939. This reprint possibly sterotyped as it uses original "Gothic" (Fraktur) script.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Featured|Travel|Yugoslavia|Phrase-Book|Serbian|Croatian|Vintage

OTTO, Emil.

An Elementary Grammar of the German Language Combined with Exercises, Readings and Conversations.

London, Heidelberg, Sampson Low, Julian Groos, n.d. Sixth edition. Original buckram, blind stamped. 196pp. publisher's list for Method Gaspey-Otto-Sauer to endpapers and J Groos in back. Front free endpaper detached but present, a little chipped. Contemporary owner name to title page. Else in very good condition. "For the use of Englishmen and Americans" Combined with exercises, readings and conversations. Method Gaspey-Otto-Sauer for the Study of Modern Languages.

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Palmer, Elizabeth and Humphrey

Common Tamil Words. Say It Yourself with Palmers'. A Pocket Dictionary English-Tamil in Both Roman and Tamil Scripts Giving Only Those Words Which Are Used in Common Speech. And with Appendices on Grammar, Numbers, Relatives, Vegetables and So on.

Madras, Printed by Fenn Thompson, 1970. Reprinted from 1960 first edition. Original printed wrappers with amusing sketch to upper cover, 9.5x14cm (pocket sized), 172pp. Very light wear. In very good condition. This little book was distributed by the Christian Literature Society and the authors spent some two years at Madras Christian College, in Britain Humphrey Palmer taught at Cardiff University.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Dravidian|Tamil|India|Sri Lanka|Phrase-Book|Featured

PERINI, N..

An Italian Conversation Grammar. Comprising the Most Important Rules of Italian Grammar, with Numerous Examples and Exercises Thereon, English-Italian Dialogues, Hints on Italian Versification, and Extracts in Italian Poetry. Fourth Edition, Carefully Revised.

London, Librairie Hachette & Cie. 1895. A lovely bright copy in original brown cloth, gilt ruled and lettered boards and spine. viii + 264pp. Owner inscription to fep verso. Collectable; Very Good Includes a short guide to Italian composition and an English-Italian and Italian-English Vocabulary. Also includes some Italian poetry. Hardcover.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Western|European|Languages. |Italian

(PITMAN, Isaac.)

Pitman's Commercial Terms and Phrases in Five Languages. A Comprehensive List of Terms Phrases Used in Commerce, with Their Equivalents in French, German, Spanish and Italian.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman, 1911. Original cloth, 118[15]pp. pocket sized (8x12cm). A good clean copy. Faint marking to upper board. "For business men etc.. " Includes 15 page publisher's list.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Featured|Multi-Lingual|Phrase-Book