Search Results: Language Studies from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Paris: L. Maretheux / Vaugirard (Imprimeur). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1914 - 1919. First Edition. Self-wraps. Much coverage of WWI. Self-wraps, generally 16 pages per issue, text in French.; 5-1/2" x 9"; Issues are unopened, with a few pages toned, 1st page of 1st issue only stamped as library duplicate. Housed in folding library cover also stamped as library duplicate on front.. .

Leiden: E. J. Brill. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1935. Reprint. Softcover. Text for English-language speaker to learn Chinese, pages sequenced to be read right-to-left, text in English and Chinese. Blue wraps, perfect bound.; 6-3/4" x 10-1/2"; 351 pp; Covers worn, corners bumped, page edges toned, no tears or writing. .

Chicago/Atlanta/New York: Scott, Foresman and Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1925. Hardcover. Here is a history of Spanish America written by a South American historian with the Latin American viewpoint - a history that is actually being used as a text in the schools of South America. Although necessarily abbreviated for classroom use in this country, the parts that have been retained are in original form and the South American atmosphere is not disturbed. Publishers blue cloth, gilt lettering front and spine, abundantly illustrated - frontispiece color map of South America, many additional illustrations in b&w, Preface in English, text in Spanish, Spanish to English Vocabulario at rear. This copy with publishers promotional leaf tipped-in inside front cover. Dr. Navarro's history shows here and there an "anti-Yankee" animus ... This attitude is frequently found in Latin America, and will be especially useful to our students to know in advance what criticisms of… Read More

Padre Las Casas, Chile: Imprenta y Editorial "San Francisco". Good+ with no dust jacket. 1966. Reprint. Softcover. White wraps, covers with illustrations and lettering front and spine in blue, text in Spanish.; 7" x 10"; xvii, 304 pp; Wraps edgeworn, toned and lightly soiled, corner creased on rear cover. Paper quite toned though not brittle, pages clean and unmarked. .

Leipzig and Francfurt: Printed by George Saalbach. Good with no dust jacket. 1736. Hardcover. but also their proper accent, phrases, figurative speeches, idioms and proverbs, taken from the best new ENGLISH DICTIONARIES. SECOND EDITION Carefully Revised, Corrected, and Considerably Augmented. Bound in modern light green library buckram with gilt spine lettering and modern endpapers. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 739 pp; Book is complete from title page to final page but lacks original endsheets and half title. Soiling to cloth (more on the rear board than the front), first three leaves with tape repairs (including across left part of title page), resulting in minor losses of readability of no more than a few characters, a long-ago ink spill created a brown marginal stain on the last 60 pages. The text is not impacted, but the last few sheets are brittle where the ink stain is located. Scattered foxing to a few pages, but no apparent writing or ownership markings. .

Manila, Philippines: University Publishing Co.. Good with no dust jacket. (1946). Softcover. Perfect bound in yellow wraps, appendices on Useful Terminologies, Common Affixes and orthography of Geographical Names. ; 5-3/4" x 8-1/2"; xxiv, 170 pp; Wraps soiled, edgeworn, lacking parts of spine covering, prior owner name inked to front cover, paper toned, some corner wear to clean and unmarked pages. .

New York and London: Harper & Brothers. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1947). Hardcover. This little book has been prepared for second-year college Spanish classes and for third- and fourth-year high-school classes. The editors believe that it is a good practice to omit English as much as possible from a Spanish textbook. For this reason the directions for the exercises and notes are given in Spanish. Tan cloth lettered in red and blue, introduction in English, rest of text in Spanish, color illustrations (in caricature) on plates, Vocabulary at rear.; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 174 pp; Covers/corners lightly worn, soiled and sunned along edge, solid binding, no inscriptions, clean and unmarked within. .

Riga: A. Val'ter. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1915. Hardcover. Wine boards, blue endpapers. An uncommon edition of an ordinary book.; 5.5 x 7.75"; 91 pp; Boards worn at corners, boards and pages with light soiling, a few dogeared pages, pencil owner name to Preface, a few pencil notations and a pencil inscription in Russian at the rear. .

Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin. Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Textbook in Japanese for the Japanese student to learn to write English-lan guage letters, many sample letters. Burgudy cloth with hand-cut front pastedown label, gold spine lettering. Scarce title from Tokyo publisher of English-language scholarly works. ; 6" x 8-1/2"; 114 pp; Spine rubbed, wear to tips of cloth, notes inside front cover, much underlining throughout, stamps inside rear cover. .

Boston, New York, Chicago, London: Ginn & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1893). Hardcover. College Series of Latin Authors. Collaboration between Harvard and Yale professors. Publishers green cloth, gilt spine lettering ; 5" x 7-1/4"; xiv, 232,+ads pp; Boards rubbed, lightly soiled, binding cocked, prior owner inscription on ffep dated 1912 by Gamma Phi Beta sorority member, scattered brief annotations in pencil within. .

Oakland, CA: Regent Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (2006). First Edition; No printing noted. Softcover. 1-58790-089-0 . Stiff red and yellow coated wraps, perfect bound, includes a tabular presentation of Active Eskimo -Language Terms for Snow and Ice. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the title page (first names only) .; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; xxii, 375 pp; ; Signed by Author; Slight wear along cover edges, a few light scratches to covers, clean and unmarked within apart from noted inscription. .

Seattle, Washington: The Shorey Book Store. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1973. Softcover. Extracted from Vol. 1 of "Contributions to American Ethnology", Washington, D. C., 1877. Stiff tan wraps, cover drawing in orange, black VeloBind strip at left, list of Shorey Publications in Print at rear. First reprinted 1970, this is a copy of the second reprint (one of 200 such copies).. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; [111]-156, [5] pp; Little wear, clean and unmarked. .

Berkeley, California: Berkeley Linguistics Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. Softcover. Off-white wraps, perfect bound, 41 separate papers with various authors, some illustrations. ; 6" x 9"; 516 pp; Very slight cover wear/soiling. Slight wear at lower right corner of rear cover and a few pages. Pages clean and unmarked. .

Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1968. Softcover. Estratto dall' Archivio italiano per la storia della pieta, vol. V,1968. Stiff white wraps, perfect bound, sewn, text in English. Publishers adverts laid in. ; 10" x 13-3/4"; 40 pp; Lightly bumped at corners, lightly soiled, text clean and unread as pages remain unopened. .

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Center For International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Softcover. Presents words in Russian with their English translation. Communist Bloc Program, E/55-16. Gray wraps, maroon cloth spine and cover lettering, perfect bound. ; 8" x 10-1/4"; 175 pp; Light cover soiling, rusted staples, slightly musty, prior owner stamp on front cover and title page, otherwise clean and unmarked. .

Moskva [Moscow]: Izdatelstvo "Russkii iazik". Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, frontispiece portrait of author, approximately 57000 words defined in Russian. Heavy, international extra. ; 8-1/4" x 10-1/4"; 846 pp; Light cover wear, prior owner name stamped to free front endpaper, frontispiece is toned with toning to adjacent leaves, text clean and unmarked. .

Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitatsverlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Publishers black cloth, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; xiv, 190 pp; This copy covered with a plastic cover taped to the endpapers, cover protects well the book but has left tape stains and impressions to early pages, about 12 pages have annotations (some pen, some pencil), prior owner name and address inked inside front cover. .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1885. Hardcover. With copious notes for the use of English students by Léonce Stievenard. Brown cloth, front pastedown label, decorative endpapers. Notes at rear offer explanations in English for French text. Eighteen pence cover price.; 4" x 6"; iv, 197 pp; Binding worn at corners and spine top/bottom, not cracked but a bit loose, bookplate inside front cover and name/1893 date on Avant Propos page. .