Basic English by C K Ogden: Books (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cover slightly worn, esp bs, and soiled w slightly bumped corners. Owner's name on fep. Underlining i tp. 10th printing. 16mo. 196 pp. English.

Condition: Fair. 1936. Fourth Printing. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with green cloth to spine. Folded frontispiece present. Pages are lightly tanned with some foxing throughout. More pronounced to text block edges. Slight crinkling to paper at gutters, however binding remains firm. Frontispiece slightly creased to edges. Faint pencil markings to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge wear with corner bumping. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Noticeable area of loss to front board with visible scuffing. Water marks to both boards. Visible tanning and foxing to boards with dust marks overall. Cracking to rear joint, with noticeable loss; binding is exposed. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: G. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd German Edition. Ex-library with neat labels on eps and class on spine. Light blue-green dw with red lettering. Front inner hinge slack. Immediate despatch from the UK. 16mo. Book.

8th printing. Psyche Miniatures General Series. No.43 With an Account of the Sounds of Basic English by A.Lloyd James. 15.5cms x 10cms x 2.5cms. Pp.xii/195/3 (publisher's catalogue), folding frontispiece, owner's name to front free endpaper. Green spine with original paper title label, cream paper-covered boards slightly rubbed. G+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Psyche Miniatures. 4" x 6-1/8", xii + 196pp + 8" x 10" fold-out chart of Basic English + 2pp publisher's advertising. Printed on moderately acidic paper and bound in signatures in beige printed paper covered three quarter boards with dark green buckram backing. Title block printed on strip of beige paper pasted to spine. Minor shelf wear, edge wear, soiling to cover, and the corners are a bit bumped. Previous owners' names in ink on front paste down, and front free end paper. Binding is square and tight. Pages are gently age toned but clean and unmarked.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 525 Seiten; Der Erhaltungszustand des hier angebotenen Werks ist trotz seiner Bibliotheksnutzung sehr sauber. Es befindet sich neben dem Rückenschild lediglich ein Bibliotheksstempel im Buch; ordnungsgemäß entwidmet. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800.

First Edition. Original red cloth-backed cream coloured boards, printed in red with white label to spine. 12 mo.,10x16cm., 184pp., Printed by R. I.Severs, Cambridge. 3/6 stamped over original printed 2/6. Spine a little sunned, boards and label a little aged but no tears. Some minimal foxing throughout. Tight and clean. 'E.W. Goodwin, 1949' to paste-down. One of the rarer titles in this series on BASIC (British American Scientific International Commercial) English developed by Charles Kay Ogden with I A Richards, and intended as a medium of international communication. Popular in the 1930s, its concepts are still taught.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. Dark blue cloth quarter-bound to spine over beige paper on boards. Paper title label affixed to spine and titling and price printed on front - Net 2/6 Net. Small book is tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of major flaws and markings inside and out. Fold-out map in front has small closed tear - front cover has minor stains. Inside is spotless. Close to near fine, but Very Good+ at least. Rare book - not ex-library, purchased from the Hamlin Estate - Hannibal Hamlin was Vice President of USA under Abraham Lincoln. His descendants were academics and politicians themselves. Important book too in the development of computer science and other fields - Basic English (British American Scientific International and Commercial English) is an English-based controlled language created by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language. Basic English is, in essence, a simplified subset of regular English. The first work on Basic English was written by two Englishmen, Ivor Richards of Harvard University and Charles Kay Ogden of the University of Cambridge in England. The design of Basic English drew heavily on the semiotic theory put forward by Ogden and Richards in their book The Meaning of Meaning. Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in World War II as a means for world peace. He was convinced that the world needed to gradually eradicate minority languages and use as much as possible only one, English in either a simple or complete form. A widely known 1933 book on this is a science fiction work on history up to the year 2106 titled "The Shape of Things to Come" by H. G. Wells. In this work, Basic English is the inter-language of the future world, a world in which after long struggles a global authoritarian government manages to unite humanity and force everyone to learn it as a second language. From the Psyche Miniatures, General Series, No. 29. A very rare book.

Condition: Fine. Size: Book (soft cover).

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 155 Size: Book.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: xi. 196 p. 1 folded leaf : ill. Size: 18 cm.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: xi. 196 p. 1 folded leaf : ill. Size: 18 cm.

First Edition. 8vo., in original unclipped dust-wrapper. xii+525pp. In very good condition in very good dust-wrapper. Clean, bright and tight. Excellent copy. A revised and expanded version of The System of Basic English comprising Ogden's 'Basic English', 'The ABC of Basic English', and 'The Basic Words', with examples and general index.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 196 Size: Shinsho.