Search Results: Linguistics from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

15 cm. [4],ii, vii,[1],1-62,1-363,[3],1-165,[3],xii,[2]pp. Most pages double-column, with either side-by-side or facing English and Chinese text. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and white. Shelfworn, with white almost entirely missing from spine characters; small stain to rear board.
An English conversation guide for Chinese speakers that covers the subject in three separately paginated parts -- Vocabulary, Dialogues and Useful Sentences -- plus an Appendix. Numerous examples are provided throughout, although often of such a specific nature that it is hard to imagine such a conversation taking place, e.g., when the reader is provided with dialogue about the benefits of swimming in sea water versus river water, or how to report to the police being robbed by four men with guns, one of whom has a "double thumb" (??).
Interestingly, all of the examples appear to take place in China, and at times offer a sharp cultural critique of English-speaking foreigners. This is particularly true in a section in Dialogues… Read More

7-1/2 x 5 inches. 48pp. Stapled brown wrappers printed in black. Text in English and Chinese. Worn, with small stains to wrappers around binding staples and a few pencil scribbles to front wrapper; leaves toned and somewhat brittle, with small marginal loss to lower corner of beginning leaves.
A surprisingly scarce booklet for teaching English to Chinese students, most likely by Western missionaries. The lessons cover the English alphabet, simple words and phrases, and short Christian texts, side by side with the same in Chinese; instructions for the teacher are scattered throughout.
OCLC locates only three holdings of any edition, at Yale, the University of Virginia and the University of Illinois.

Varsovio [Warsaw]: J. Kelter, 1904. Fourth edition. Good. 6" x 5-1/2". 69, [1, blank]. Green wrappers printed in black, side-stapled text block. Toned; spine mostly perished; light ink scribbles to front wrapper; shallow loss and creasing to corner of front wrapper and some leaves. Text clean, binding sound. Esperanto vocabulary book with text in Esperanto, French, English, German, Russian and Polish. Ludwig Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish opthamalogist, was the inventor of Esperanto, widely considered the most successful constructed language.Scarce. OCLC locates five holdings of this edition, and notes no later editions.