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Languages

The language titles were initially given black and white coloured covers (like the other standard non-language titles) which were used in 1938 and 1939 (see German below). These were replaced by the distinctive blue and yellow coloured wrappers, between 1939 and February 1943 (see Arabic below).  They had a diagonal colour split design across the spine and the front. These were replaced by the oblong panel series - appearing between February 1948 and 1950 (see Arabic below).   The circular Two Towers logo (see Arabic below) was replaced sometime in 1962 by the square tower (see Afrikaans below).  In 1970/71 the final logo the interlocking jigsaw pieces (see Gaelic below) is seen.

Afrikaans

 

M.P.O. Burgers

 

First printed : 1957

This impression: 1964

 

Number on back cover : 656

 

Arabic

 

A.S. Tritton

 

First printed :November 1943

Reprinted : June 1944

 

Number on back cover : 6

Colloquial Arabic

 

T.F. Mitchell

 

First printed : 1962

 

 

Number on back cover : 187

 

 

Bengali

 

D.F. Hudson

 

First printed : 1965

 

Number on back cover : 220

 

 

Chinese

 

H.R. Williamson

 

First printed : 1947

This impression: 1958

 

Number on back cover : 20

 

 

Czech

 

W.R. and Z. Lee

 

First printed: 1939

 

Number on back cover : 671

 

 

Danish

 

H.A. Koefoed

 

First printed : 1958

 

Number on back cover : 167

 

 

Dutch

 

H.Koolhoven

 

First printed : December 1941

Reprinted : April 1943

reprinted : January 1945

Reprinted : July 1946

Reprinted : February 1948

 

No number on back cover

 

 

Dutch - English Dictionary

 

First printed : 1958

This impression : 1966

 

Number inside  back cover: 679

 

 

English for Swahili-Speaking People

 

D.V. Perrott

 

First printed : 1958

 

 

Number on back cover : 682

 

 

Esperanto

 

John Cresswell, John Hartley

 

First printed : 1957

Second edition : 1968

 

 

 

No number on back cover

 

Finnish

 

A.H. Whitney

 

First printed : 1956

Reprinted : 1959

 

Number on back cover : 655

 

 

French

 

[N.S. Wilson based on the work of Sir John Adams]

 

First printed : April 1938

New impression : 1954

 

Number on back cover : 52

 

 

Everyday French

 

N.Scarlyn Wilson

 

First printed : 1940

Reprinted : January 1945

 

 

No number on back cover

 

French Grammar

 

E.S.Jenkins

 

First printed : 1961

This impression ; 1962

 

Number on back cover : 53

 

 

 

 

Gaelic

 

Roderick Mackinnon

 

First printed : 1971

 

 

 

ISBN 0 340 15153 8

German

 

Sydney W. Wells

 

First printed in this form : 1938

 

 

 

No number on back cover

 

 

German

 

Sydney W. Wells & E.S.Jenkins

 

First printed in this form : 1938

New impression : 1952

 

Number on back cover : 59

A First German

 

L. Stringer

 

First printed : 1966

 

Number inside back cover of the dustjacket : 231

German Phrase Book

 

Johanna Hamilton

 

First printed : 1948

new impression : 1953

 

Number on back cover : 61

 

 

[NB The map on the front of Germany is pre-WW2]

More German

 

S.W.Wells

 

First printed : 1946

New edition : 1956

This impression : 1963

 

Number on back cover : 104

 

 

German Reader

 

L. Stringer

 

First printed : 1944

 

Number on back cover : 200

 

 

German-English Dictionary

 

 

 

First printed : 1945

New edition with grammar : 1946

Revised edition : 1962

This impression  1969

 

SBN on back cover :

340 05789 0

Greek

 

F. Kinchin Smith and T.W. Melluish

 

First printed : April 1947

This impression :1961

 

Number on back cover : 80

Modern Greek

 

S.A. Sofroniou

 

First printed : 1962

 

Number on the back cover : 645

Modern Greek Phrase Book

 

Vivienne Sharp

 

First printed : 1967

 

 

Number inside back cover : 05870

Hebrew

 

R.K. Harrison

 

First printed : 1955

This impression :1957

 

Number on back cover : 583

Icelandic

 

P.J.T.Glendening

 

First printed : 1961

 

 

Number on back cover : 179

Indonesian

 

John B Kwee

 

First printed : 1965

This impression :1971

 

ISBN 0 340 05796 3

Irish

 

Myles Dillon and Donncha O Croinin

 

First printed : 1961

This impression :1968

 

SBN on back cover : 340 05797 1

Italian

 

K. Speight

 

First printed : 1943

New edition : 1954

This impression :1959

 

Number on back cover : 89

Italian Phrase Book

 

 

 

First printed : 1954

This impression :1959

 

Number on back cover : 90

Japanese

 

C.J. Dunn & S. Yanada

 

First printed : 1958

This impression :1965

 

Number on back cover : 674

Latin

 

F. Kinchin Smith

 

First printed : 1938

Fully revised edition : 1948

This impression :1964

 

Number on back cover : 93

Latvian

 

Tereza Budina Lazdina

 

First printed : 1966

 

 

Number inside back cover : 222

Malay

 

M.B. Lewis

 

First printed : 1947

This impression : 1963

 

 

Number on back cover : 95

Norwegian

 

I. Marm & Alf Sommerfelt

 

First printed : June 1943

 

 

 

No number on back cover

Old English

 

Leslie Blakeley

 

First printed : 1964

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 630

Modern Persian

 

John Mace

 

First printed : 1962

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 698

Polish

 

M. Corbridge-Patkaniowska

 

First printed : 1948

This impression : 1957

 

 

Number on back cover : 117

Portuguese

 

J.W. Barker

 

First printed : 1945

 

 

 

No number on back cover 

Russian

 

Maximilian Fourman

 

First printed : February 1943

 

 

 

No number on back cover

Russian and English Dictionary

 

John Grosberg

 

First printed : 1957

This impression : 1963

 

 

 

Number on inside back cover : 677

Russian Through Reading

 

Frank Higenbottam

 

First printed : 1967

 

 

 

 

Number on inside back cover : 05981

Samoan

 

C. C. Marsack

 

First printed : 1962

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 648

Serbo-Croat

 

Vera Javarek, Miroslava Sujic

 

First printed : 1963

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 636

Spanish

 

N. Scarlyn Wilson

 

First printed : 1939

This impression : 1956

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 135

Everyday Spanish

 

L. D. Collier

 

First printed : 1957

 

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 676

Swahili

 

D. V. Perrott

 

First printed : 1951

This impression : 1957

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 155

Swedish

 

R. J. McClean

 

First printed : 1947

This impression : 1955

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 142

Swedish Phrase Book

 

Jörel Sahlgren Oswald

 

First printed : 1958

 

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 659

To Learn a Language

 

P. J. T. Glendening

 

First printed : 1965

 

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 210

Turkish

 

G. L. Lewis

 

First printed : 1953

This impression : 1955

 

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 163

Urdu

 

T. Grahame Bailey

 

First printed : 1950 as "Hindustani"

New revised as "urdu" : 1956

This impression : 1964

 

 

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 82

Welsh

 

John T. Bowen & T. J. Rhys Jones

 

First printed : 1960

This impression : 1967

 

 

 

 

 

Number on inside back cover : 05829

Arabic

 

A.S. Tritton

 

First printed :1943

This impression : 1958

 

Number on back cover : 6

Chinese

 

H.R. Williamson

 

First printed : 1947

This impression: 1968

 

SBN on back cover : 340 05773 4

 

 

Czech

 

W.R. and Z. Lee

 

First printed: 1939

Second edition: 1964

Second impression: 1966

Third impression: 1968

Fourth impression: 1969

 

 

SBN on back cover : 340 05776 9

 

Danish

 

H.A. Koefoed

 

First printed : 1958

This impression: 1964

 

Number on back cover : 167

 

 

Dutch

 

H.Koolhoven

 

First printed : 1941

Ninth edition : 1963

This impression: 1964

 

Number on back cover : 34

 

 

Esperanto-English Dictionary

 

J.C. Wells

 

First printed : 1969

 

 

SBN on back cover

340 05950 8

French Phrase Book

 

First printed : 1947

This impression ; 1958

 

Number on back cover : 54

 

 

 

 

German

 

Sydney W. Wells

 

First printed : October 1938

10th reprint : June 1946

 

 

 

 

German

 

Sydney W. Wells & E.S.Jenkins

 

First printed in this form : 1938

This impression (with corrections) : 1966

 

Number inside back cover of the dustjacket : 59

German grammar

 

P. G. Wilson

 

First printed : 1950

this impression : 1966

 

Number inside back fold of the dustjacket : 60

More German

 

S.W.Wells

 

First printed : 1946

New edition : 1956

This impression : 1966

 

Number inside on back cover : 104

 

 

Greek

 

F. Kinchin Smith and T.W. Melluish

 

First printed : April 1947

Second edition : 1968

 

SBN on back cover : 340 05793 9

Hebrew

 

R.K. Harrison

 

First printed : 1955

This impression :1965

 

Number on back cover : 583

Norwegian

 

A. Sommerfelt and I. Marm

 

First printed : 1943

This impression : 1957

 

 

Number on back cover : 108

Polish

 

M. Corbridge-Patkaniowska

 

First printed : 1948

Revised edition : 1960

This edition (revised and enlarged) : 1964

 

 

Number on back cover : 117

Portuguese

 

J.W. Barker

 

Fifth edition : 1969

 

 

 

SBN number on back cover 

340 05812 9

Russian

 

Maximilian Fourman

 

This impression  1957

 

 

 

Number on back cover : 127

Spanish Phrase Book

 

W.W.Timms & M.Pulgar

 

First printed : 1954

New edition : 1969

 

Number on back cover : SBN 340 05821 8

Everyday Spanish

 

L. D. Collier

 

This impression  1967

 

 

 

Number on back cover : SBN 340 05580 4

Swedish Phrase Book

 

Jörel Sahlgren Oswald

 

First printed : 1958

This impression : 1965

 

 

 

 

 

Number on inside back cover : 659

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