1. Ahn, F.

Nouvelle methode pratique et facile pour apprendre la langue allemande, 1er cours.

Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1861. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. 91 pages. Hardcover / Half vellum. Quinzieme Édition, 1861. Relié demi-cuir. État d’usage. Couverture et interieur convenable. Quelques soulignements en rouge.

2. [Ayer, A.J.] Rogers, Ben.

A.J. Ayer: A Life.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1999. 16 cm x 24 cm. XII, 402 pages including photographs. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains two photocopies from a newspaper review pasted on back endpapers. Clean inside with solid binding.

3. Barth, Henry [ed. G.T. Bettany].

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa. Including Accounts of Tripoli, The Sahara, The Remarkable Kingdom of Bornu, and the Countries Around Lake Chad.

London, New York and Melbourne, Ward, Lock and Co., 1890. 12 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXII, 608 pages. 8 plates, 98 other illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Corners of boards very slightly bumped and rubbed. Tissue guard in good condition. Interior is very bright and clean. [The Minerva Library of Famous Books].

4. Caruth, Cathy.

Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions – Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. [Inscribed]

Baltimore, London, The Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, 1991. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. VIII, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Joanna Hill. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear with a personal, signed inscription by the author Cathy Caruth on the front free endpaper.

5. Cohen, Marcel.

Histoire d’une Langue: le Français. (Des Lointaines Origines à Nos Jours).

Paris, Éditions Hier et Aujourd’hui, 1947. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. 384 Pages. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. [Collection Civilisation Française].

6. Gordon, George N.

Erotic Communications: Studies in Sex, Sin and Censorship. Humanistic Studies in The Communication Arts.

New York, Hastings House Publishers, 1980. 16 cm x 24 cm. XI, 338 pages. 12 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Author photograph by Tom Gutekunst. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Khoury, Sadallah S.

The Correct Translator For All Occasions Without A Teacher. Arabic – English, English – Arabic.

A New Revised Edition. Beirut, Al Hayat Library, c.1977. 13.7 cm x 19.3 cm. 200 pages. Original Softcover. Cover is loose but binding is firm. Interior is very good. Colour fading on the spine. Minor stain on edge.

8. Opie, Iona & Peter.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.

New york, The New York Review of Books, 2001. 13 cm x 20 cm. XIX, 420 pages with illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside.

9. Parabola.

Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning. Vol. 8, No. 3, August 1983: Words of Power.

Third printing. New York, Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, 1993. 17 x 25.5cm. 128 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some text underlining.

10. Pratt, T.K.

Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English.

Toronto, Buffalo, London, University of Toronto Press, 1988. 18 cm x 25.5 cm. XXX, 192 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small inscription by previous author on front free endpaper.

11. Rausch, Friedrich.

Original, trilingual handbook with loosely inserted plates, showing the phonetics (position and look of tongue, lips and teeth-positions during speaking certain words) Handausgabe von Rausch’s Lauttafeln [Inclusive dem englischen “th”] – 26 lithographische Tafeln mit Lautbezeichnungen der Association Phonetique Internationale nach Vietor’s Lauttafeln. Zusätzlich mit einer deutschen Lauttafel (System Vietor) welche nach Lippenlauten, Zahnlauten, Gaumenlauten und Kehllauten trennt.

2. Auflage der verkleinerten Ausgabe. Marburg, N.G.Elwert / Association Phonetique International, [1913]. Octavo. 26 Tafeln in Postkartengröße, lose in originaler Verlags-Flügelmappe. Softcover. Sehr guter Zustand dieser seltenen Ausgabe / Tafel 1 rückseitig mit Bibliotheksstempel. Alle Tafeln vorderseitig mit zusätzlicher (verkehrter) Numerierung in Buntstift. / Reduced edition (pocket edition) of Friedrich Rausch’s phonetic plates, illustrating the speech sounds, including one plate for the digraph “th”.

12. Robinson, Charles H.

Hausa Grammar – With Exercises, Readings, and Vocabularies, and Specimens of Hausa Script.

Fifth Edition, Revised (Eleventh Impression). London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1941. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. VII, 218 pages. Fold-out grammar-table within rearboard-pocket. Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Scoff marks, shelfwear and fading to boards evident. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong. Preowner’s details on front endpaper (C.E.Wortley – R.A.F. Regiment – August 1942).

13. Steere, Edward,

A Handbook of the Swahili Language – As Spoken at Zanzibar.

Fourth Edition, Revised. London, The Sheldon Press, 1943. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 184 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Interior bright and clean.

14. [Trattner]

Institutionum Grammaticarum Linguae Graecae Pars Altera Ad Usum Scholarum Austriacarum. Continens: Supplementa Grammatica, Chrestomathiam Graecam, Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum.

Vienna, Trattnern, 1795. 18cm x 12cm. 546 pages plus Appendix with ″ Lexicon Hermeneutico-Analyticum” [120 unnumbered pages]. Original Hardcover in protective Collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor external signs of wear. [Exemplar von Friedrich Georg Julius Heinrich Freiherr von Lasberg, mit seinem Besitzvermerk auf dem Vorsatzblatt].