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[CHINESE LANGUAGE -- Cantonese Dialect]. BRUCE, Donald. EASY PHRASES IN THE CANTON DIALECT OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE. San Francisco: Bruce's Publishing House, 1877. Second edition. [152] unnumbered pages. Small folio, 24.5 x 16.9 cm., publisher's printed paper boards with later (but old) brown cloth tape on spine. Boards are dust soiled and edgeworn. The first few folios are loose, with one sprung. Lacks frontispiece, but a facsimile is laid in. The book is comprised of 72 one-page lessons, each is a list of 22 practical and/or common phrases in Chinese and English (questions with possible answers and related ideas) that are loosely grouped thematically (introductions, weights and measures, buying and selling, health, etc., etc.), with a blank page opposite each lesson for the pupil "to make a record of the sounds as pronounced by his teacher," as is explained in the Preface. (This feature, a rather ingenious technique, also allows Chinese speakers to use this book to record their English teacher's pronunciation, making it a Chinese/English or English/Chinese book depending upon the student and the teacher.) A few pencil notes have been made opposite the first two lessons; otherwise the text is clean. Condition is only about good, yet it is a scarce title: OCLC lists only eight holdings for this edition, and none for the first edition., Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of CHINESE LANGUAGE -- Cantonese Dialect : EASY PHRASES IN THE CANTON DIALECT OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, livres d'occasion, libri rari, out-of-print books and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |