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Richards, I A :  Complementarities. London: Birkbeck College 1972.  20p grey card cover, tall pamphlet, excellent condition, Lecture in Honour of the late C A Mace PKM 144099  £0 

De Quincey, Thomas :  The English Opium Eater. Ed. Charles Whibley. London: Gresham 1910?.  xii 398p 16cm green cloth with gilt d�cor to front board and spine, frontisp, very nice printing with red page headers, nice copy PKM 144095  £8 

De Quincey, Thomas :  Essays. Ed. Charles Whibley. London: Gresham 1910?.  xii 352p 16cm green cloth with gilt d�cor to front board and spine, frontisp, very nice printing with red page headers, reprints Rhetoric, Tartars, Mail Coach, Suspiria etc PKM 144094  £8 

Dante Alighieri :  A Translation of the Latin Works of Dante Alighieri. London: Dent 1904. (Temple Classics) 427p small format blue cloth frontisp with tissue guard, top edge gilt, contains De Vulgari Eloquentia, De Monarchia, Aqua et Terra etc, minor ex library markings, VG, first printing PKM 143686  £12 

Wareham, James :  Parables and Precepts - For Preachers and Teachers. London: Mowbray 1930.  xii 130p cloth, dustjacket, a full store of stories to "bring home a point" PKM 143458  £12 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius ; Nobbe, Carl [Ed]:  M Tullii Ciceronis Opera Omnia uno Volumine Comprehensa Curis Secundis Emendatiora et Adnotationibus Indicibusque Auctiora, Ed. C F A Nobbe. Nova Editio Stereotypa. Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1850.  vii 1460p large quarto volume with paper covered boards under private craft paper dustjacket, spine entirely absent, boards moving freely, uncut edges, engraved frontis with marginal soiling, publishers note on the ability to re-bind the work in two parts because he printed the relevant section twice to facilitate binding "Ut responderemus eorum commoditati, qui fortasse paetulerint hanc Cicceronis editione, omnia eius scripta uno volumine complexam, pluribus tamen tomis divisam usurpare, ita rem instituimus, ut duae paginae 467 et 468 duobus foliis subsequentibus separatim etiam inprimerentur, titulusque peculiaris interponeretur" PKM 143371  £50 

Frith, Henry :  The Chairman's Guide and Secretary's Companion. London: Ward, Lock & Co 1920?.  112p orig red cloth with interesting design to front board, copy somewhat aged and dusty, but no faults PKM 142877  £12 

Kuhn, Deanna :  The Skills of Argument. Cambridge University Press 1991.  hardback with brown cloth, as new PKM 142793  £86 

Ratcliff, Rebecca Ann :  Delusions of Intelligence. National Cultures of Cryptology, Secrecy and Bureaucracy in Germany and Britain during World War II. not published 1996.  303p Dissertation typescript, A4 format, red card cover and black cloth spine, library bookplate, very good. Submitted at the Department of Rhetoric in Berkeley, some corrections in pencil to glossary PKM 142492  £64 

Murison, William :  Pr�cis-Writing. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Cambridge University Press 1914.  3 vols in original blue cloth, ex library with old shelfmark to front board and bookplate, nice fresh copy, very uncommon title, complete set PKM 142414  £120 

Bossuet, J B :  Oraisons Fun�bres de Bossuet. Pr�c�d�es de l'Essau sur l'Oraison Fun�bre par M Villemain, edited by Dussault. Paris: Firmin Didot 1910?.  lxiv 525p plain cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, ex library with shelfmark and bookplate, clean ex library copy, paper yellowing, contains also the funeral orations by Flechier and Mascaron PKM 142285  £15 

Fleming, Gerald ; Fougasse, T [Illustr]:  Guided Composition for Students of English. London: Hodder & Stoughton 1977.  32p red stapled booklet, ex-library, small shelf sticker to front cover, very good condition PKM 141091  £8 

Evans, E D :  A Handbook of Pr�cis-Writing - with Graduated Exercises. Cambridge University Press 1913.  105p green cloth, ex lib with label on spine and front board, bookplate on paste sheet, pages unmarked but show strong foxing towards edges, binding firm, overall good condition PKM 140086  £25 

Huguet, Edmond :  Le langage figur� au Seizi�me si�cle. Paris: Droz 1933. (�tudes de Philologie Fran�aise) 256p paperback with grey paper cover, excellent condition, VG+ PKM 139836  £28 

M�ller-Hauser, Marie-Louise :  La Mise en Relief d'une Id�e en Francais Moderne. Gen�ve: Droz 1943. (Romanica Helvetica) 291p orig card cover, VG+ large paperback, excellent condition PKM 139821  £48 

Colin, Jean :  Les Villes libres de l'Orient gr�co-romain et l'envoi au supplice par acclamations populaires. Bruxelles: Revue d'�tudes Latines 1965. (Collection Latomus) 176p paperback, minor library markings, VG, 4 plates, index, bibliogr PKM 139804  £46 

Cope, E M ; Aristotle :  An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric with Analysis Notes and Appendices. London: Macmillan 1867.  464p maroon cloth, gilt titles, library rebinding incorporating remains of original spine and back and front boards, ex Cambridge College library markings and cancelled stamp, new endpapers, interior very well preserved, clean and firm, previous owner's name to title page dated 1867, text English PKM 139581  £42 

Fichtenau, Heinrich :  Arenga. Sp�tantike und Mittelalter im Spiegel von Urkundenformeln. Graz: B�hlau 1957. (Mitteilungen des Instituts f�r �sterreichische Geschichtsforschung) 244p rebound in cloth, binding still firm but calf spine lost, original card cover bound in, expressive pencil marks in the margin throughout, an important study PKM 139054  £46 

Hoxha, Enver :  Twenty five years of struggle and victory on the road to socialism. Speech delivered at the solemn meeting dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the country and the victory of the people's revolution. Tirana: Naim Frasheri 1969.  95p smal pale yellow paperback, cover a little soiled and creased otherwise VG, transcript of speech delivered by Hoxha, previous owner has written 'Compliments of Radio Tirana' inside front cover and their name 'Comrade Vaughan Griffiths' on title page, pages a little browned but clean and readable, binding good PKM 138764  £9 

Styler, W E :  Questions and Discussion. London: Workers' Educational Association 1952.  30p stapled pamphlet, ex-library, good condition PKM 138282  £8 

Demosthenes ; Drake, B [Ed]:  Pro Ctesiphonte, De Corona Oratio. Ed. B Drake. London: Macmillan 1917.  213p red cloth, boards a little splashed, spine soiled, interior firm and clean, no underlining, main text Greek, intro and notes English PKM 138153  £9 

Pfau, Michael :  The Political Style of Conspiracy. Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln. East Lansing: Michigan State University 2005.  248p hardcover first edition, red illustrated dustjacket in excellent uncreased condition, binding perfect, pages clean and bright, appears unused, landmark in rhetorical criticism, detailed analysis of key texts by Chase, Sumner and Lincoln PKM 137412  £35 

Donadi, Daria Perocco :  Retorica, Sesso e Confessionale nelle Chiose Inedite del Castelvetro al "Decameron". Offprint 1977.  30p offprint, "con ammirazione", VG+ PKM 137216  £12 

Billanovich, Giuseppe ; Monti, Carla Maria :  Una Nuova Fonte per la Storia della Scuola di Grammatica e Retorica nell'Italia del Trecento. Offprint 1979.  36p paper cover, author note, VG+ PKM 137215  £14 

Fox, Charles James :  Speeches During the French Revolution. Everyman's Library No. 759. First Everyman edition. London: Dent 1924. (Everyman Oratory) 415p plain orange cloth, gilt titles, VG ex library copy with minimal library markings, exceptionally clean and well preserved copy PKM 136151  £9 

Valencia, Guillermo :  Discursos. 3 volumes. Bogota: Caro y Cuervo 1973. (Biblioteca Colombiana) 347p, 407p, 349p, 3 volume paperback set, cream card covers with black and red titles extremely well preserved beneath matching dustjackets protected in turn by cellophane wrappers, foxing to bottom edges, pages unaffected, remarkably white and fresh, binding excellent, very good set, Spanish text PKM 136031  £74 

Sasse, G�nter ; Mauser, Wolfgang :  Streitkultur. Strategien des �berzeugens im Werk Lessings. T�bingen: Niemeyer 1993.  575p cloth, dustjacket, as new PKM 135406  £86 

Kirkendale, Warren :  Ciceronians versus Aristotelians on the Ricercar as Exordium, from Bembo to Bach. Offprint 1979.  44p offprint with authorial correction in pencil, nice fresh copy PKM 135392  £15 

Bossuet, J B :  Oeuvres de Bossuet, Eveque de Meaux. Vols 1 - 48 (complete). Piete. Sermons. Education. Ecriture Sainte. Controverse. Correspondance. Paris: Gauthier 1828.  48tomes in 24 volumes, 22 with original boards and rebacked spines, 2 with original spines in very poor condition, otherwise VG ex library copies with the usual markings, staining to title pages due to bookplate on versos, covers and spines a little worn but a scarce and lovely complete set, contents clean and fresh PKM 134964  £400 

Furneax, Henry [Ed]; Tacitus :  The Annals of Tacitus, Vols 1 and 2 (complete) Oxford: Clarendon Press 1884.  612p and 700p plus advertisements, bound in black cloth with Oxford arms on spines, corners bumped and covers and spines a little scuffed; within, the usual ex libris treatments, text very clean and tight, a lovely first edition PKM 134699  £28 

Ramsay, William ; Cicero, Marcus Tullius ; Ramsay, George [Ed]:  Cicero. Pro Cluentio. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1873.  242p + 16p advertisments, bound in dark brown cloth with embossed Clarendon design, few library labels on spine and bookplate on pastedown, some spotting on feps and last few leaves (ie advertisments), otherise clean and tight PKM 134695  £25 

Communications :  Recherches Rh�toriques (=Communications No 16) Paris: Seuil 1970.  244p cream card cover, french language, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG, includes Barthes' Aide-m�moire: L'Ancienne Rh�torique, PKM 133799  £24 

Ochoa, Eugenio de [Ed]:  Tesoro de los Prosadores Espa�oles desde la Formaci�n del Romance Castellano hasta fines del siglo XVIII; en el que se contiene lo m�s selecto del teatro hist�rico-cr�tico de la Elocuencia espa�ola de don Antonio Capmani. Paris: Garnier 1901. (Coleccion de los Mejores Autores Espanoles) 603p, a little used ex library copy, bould had calf, with spine breaking away and detached, text clean, paper yellowing, year of publication assumed from evidence of paper PKM 133744  £46 

Orth, Ernst Wolfgang :  Zur Ph�nomenologie des Philosophischen Textes. Freiburg: Alber 1982. (Ph�nomenologische Forschungen) 198p brown paperback, spine sl torn, pages unmarked, with essays by Kah Kyung Cho, Samuel Ijsseling, Jan M Broekmann, Adriaan Peperzak etc, binding firm, VG PKM 133448  £14 

Damaschke, Adolf :  Volkst�mliche Redekunst: Erfahrungen und Ratschl�ge. Jena: Fischer 1911.  88p grey pb, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 133348  £9 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius ; Flather, J H [Ed]:  The Orations of Ciceros against Catilina, edited after Karl Halm, with many additions by A S Wilkins. London: Macmillan 1892. (Classical Series) xxxvii 160p red cloth, small format, VG+ PKM 133123  £12 

Demosthenes :  Demosthenes Orationes. Ed. S H Butcher. Vol 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1938. (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) dark blue cloth, well preserved, clean PKM 133121  £10 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius ; Flather, J H [Ed]:  M Tulli Ciceronis in Catilinam Oratio Prima. Cambridge University Press 1936. (Cambridge Elementary Classics) xx 81p p brown board, VG PKM 133114  £9 

Demosthenes :  The Orations of Demosthenes. Ed. Charles Rann Kennedy. Vol 2, 3, 4. London: Bell & Sons 1892. (Bohn's Classical Library) 3 vols in orig blue orig cloth, partly uncut, VG, well preserved, clean set PKM 133103  £32 

Demosthenes :  The Oration of Demosthenes against the Law of Leptines, with English Notes. Ed. B W Beatson. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell 1864.  208p orig cloth, VG, well preserved, clean copy PKM 133102  £16 

Demosthenes :  Demosthenes Orationes. Ed. S H Butcher. Vol 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1909. (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) terracotta cloth, well preserved, clean PKM 133101  £10 

Demosthenes :  Demosthenes: Orations Against Philip. Ed. Evelyn Abbott. Vol 2. Part 1 and 2 in one Vol. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1890. (Clarendon Press Series) 116p 80p red cloth, intense pencil notes to a few pages, binding firm PKM 133100  £8 

Praz, Mario :  Studies in Seventheenth Century Imagery. Vol 2: Bibliography of Emblem Books. London: Warburg Institute 1947.  209p coarse cloth, excellent ex lib copy PKM 132769  £80 

Doob, Leonard :  Public Opinion and Propaganda. 2nd Edition. Hamden: Archon 1966.  612p black cloth, VG+ ex lib copy, unused, and fresh copy PKM 132707  £28 

Lewis, George Cornwall :  Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1898.  194p grey hard cover with blue cloth spine, ex lib with 3 small labels on spine, spine worn and sl shakey, bookplate and stamp on ffep and title page, pages unmarked, good condition PKM 132502  £15 

Schramm, Wilbur [Ed]:  Mass Communications: A Book of Readings. Urbana: Illinois University Press 1969. (Illini Books) 694p thick paperback, fitted with adhesive film, ex library PKM 132427  £14 

Bassett, Glenn :  The New Face of Communication. New York: American Management Association 1968.  hardback with black dj, excellent copy with library shelfmark and bookplate, VG+ PKM 131820  £20 

Lord Windlesham :  Communication and Political Power. London: Cape 1966.  288p hardback with red cloth spine, ex lib with only minimal traces of used, never read, VG+ PKM 131808  £14 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius :  M Tullii Ciceronis Orationes in Verrem, ex Recensione G Long. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell 1890. (Cambridge Greek & Latin Texts) 356p small volume in full burgundy cloth, approx 20 p with old ink annotations, crooked name stamp "G.M.Trevelyan" on endpaper PKM 131632  £12 

Hagenguth, Edith :  Hartmanss Iwein: Rechtsargumentation und Bildsprache. Heidelberg 1969.  244p blue card cover, Dissertation Heidelberg University, pages with faint pencil marks along margins, binding firm, VG PKM 131366  £25 

King, J R :  Demosthenes: Speech Against Medias. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1901.  119p red cloth, some ink notes to pages, light pencil notes to rear inner board, school sticker to inner front board, quaint bookseller's bookstamp to inner front board, wearing and staining to exterior, binding firm, index, good condition PKM 130983  £14 

Lindsay, A D ; Yamamoto, Toshiki [Transl]:  I Believe in Democracy. Tokyo: Oxford University Press 1970.  88p small cream card cover, text in English with Japanese vocabulary translation appendix, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 130056  £11 

Frye, Northrop :  Great Code: Bible and Literature. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982.  261p cloth with creram dj, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 129693  £13 

Miles, Alfred ; Browne, Lennox ; Harrison, Clifford :  The New Standard Elocutionist: Comprising an Essay on the Principles of Elocution, on Public Speaking, and the Selection, Study and Delivery of Recitations. London: Hutchinson 1895.  xvi 640p red half calf, spine absent, corners sl bumped, 1st ed?, weak inner hinges, pages clean, frontisp, binding sl soft, useful copy PKM 129228  £22 

Upcott, E A [Introduction]; Cicero, Marcus Tullius :  Cicero, Speeches Against Catilina. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1949.  81p small green cloth, spine sunned, boards sl stained towards the edges, bookplate on ffep, pages unmarked, binding firm, VG PKM 128941  £13 

Barthes, Roland ; Kayser, Wolfgang ; Booth, Wayne ; Hamon, Ph :  Po�tique du r�cit. Paris: Seuil. (points) 180p sm white pb, pages clean, hardly used, VG PKM 128204  £8 

Osler, William :  Aequanimitas: With other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine. 2nd Edition, with three Additional Addresses. London: Lewis 1906.  x 475p red library cloth, sm shelf labels on spine, head and foot of spine sl torn, pages clean, binding firm, VG ex lib copy PKM 127400  £32 

Trench, Richard :  Proverbs and Their Lessons. Being the Substance of Lectures Delivered to Young Men's Societies at Portsmouth and Elsewhere. Fourth Edition, Revised. London: Parker 1857.  vii 155p blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, front hinge yielding a little, small stain to cover, pages clean and bright, binding firm, good+ PKM 126721  £20 

Curran, James ; Gurevitch, Michael [Eds]:  Mass Media and Society. Third Edition. London: Arnold 2000.  vii 408p large format paperback, apparently unused copy with uncreased spine, cover shows some shelfwear, very good condition PKM 126611  £12 

Wabuda :  Preaching during the English Reformation. Cambridge University Press 2002.  xix 203p hardback, dustjacket in very good condition, clean pages, tight binding, fine condition PKM 125752  £33 

Scherer, K R :  Social Markers in Speech. Cambridge University Press 1979. (European Studies in Social Psychology) 395p yellow paperback, sl sunned, some shelfwear, pages with few minor pencil marks, binding firm, VG PKM 125686  £10 

Grierson, Herbert :  Cross Currents in English Literature of the XVIIth Century. Or the World, the Flesh and the Spirit, Their Actions and Reactions. London: Chatto & Windus 1948. (Messenger Lectures on the Evolution of Civilization) 344p cloth, gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket sunned but in good condition, previous owner's details on front end paper, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, good+ PKM 124971  £8 

Pepper, John :  Ulster-English Dictionary. Belfast: Appletree 1981.  86p blue card cover, pages unmarked, binding firm, very good condition PKM 124712  £10 

Vickers, Brian :  Shakespeare Coriolanus. London: Arnold 1970. (Studies in English Literature) slim paperback, VG PKM 124293  £10 

Jorio, Andrea de :  Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity. A Translation of Andrea de Jorio's "La Mimica Degli Antichi Investigata Nel Gestire Napoletano". Indiana University Press 2001. (Advances in Semiotics) 517p paperback, unused, as new PKM 123636  £14 

Hibbard, George [Ed]:  Three Elizabethan Pamphlets. London: Harrap 1951. (Life, Literature and Thought Library) 244p hb, glossary, notes, Boots label, VG: contains a long introduction to pamphlet literature by editor, and text of Greene: Third Part of Conycatching, Nashe: Pierce Pennilesse Supplication, Dekker: Wonderful Year, prints a modernised text PKM 123583  £12 

Kirkman, John :  Good Style in Scientific and Engineering Writing. London: Pitman 1980.  131p green laminated pb, college stamp, barcode and cancelled stamp on ffep, pages clean, binding firm, VG ex lib copy PKM 122308  £8 

Nisbet, Charles :  Everybody's Writing-Desk Book. London: Saxon & Co 1890?.  301p small format blue cloth sl worn, advertisement, still useful and interesting PKM 121555  £14 

Goodwin, William ; Demosthenes :  Demosthenes on the Crown. Cambridge University Press 1953. (Macmillan's Classical Series for Colleges and Schools) 296p blue cloth, sunned spine, corners rubbed, pencil markings to pages, signed by previous owner, some pages dog-eared, good condition PKM 118555  £8 

Ottmers, Clemens :  Rhetorik. Stuttgart: Metzler 1996. (Sammlung Metzler: Realien zur Literatur) 253p purple paperback, minor shelfwear, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Seiten unmarkiert PKM 117979  £17 

Schirn, Martin :  Identit�t und Synonymie: Logisch-semantische Untersuchungen unter Ber�cksichtigung der sprachlichen Verst�ndigungspraxis. Stuttgart: Frommann 1975.  260p orange paperback, minor shelfwear, spine slightly sunned, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, VG, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, R�cken ausgebliche, Innenteil einwandfrei PKM 117784  £24 

Sternberger, Dolf :  �ber die Verbindlichkeit des Schrifttums. Bonn: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der graphischen Verb�nde ?1954.  28p blue card covers, pages clean, hardly used, VG PKM 117169  £6 

Jaeger, Werner :  Paideia. The Ideals of Greek Culture. Vols 1 (of 3) only. Archaic Greece. The Mind of Athens. Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press 1960.  black cloth, important work, Vol 1 only PKM 117014  £14 

Wyse, William [Ed]; Isaeus :  The Speeches of Isaeus. With Critical and Explanatory Notes. First Edition. Cambridge University Press 1904.  735p grey cloth with gilt lettering, grey/blue jacket, first edition, book is in perfect condition with minor foxing to edges and end papers, unmarked with index, jacket chipped and torn, spine browned, texts in greek and english, very good condition PKM 116852  £270 

Halm, Karl [Ed]; Cicero, Marcus Tullius :  M Tulli Ciceronis : De Imperio G Pompei Oratio Ad Quirites (Pro Lege Manilia) London: Macmillan 1917. (Macmillan's School Class Books) 80p red cloth with gilt lettering, spine rubbed, signature to front endpaper, heavy ink marks to pages, index, very good condition PKM 116662  £13 

Rehdantz, C [Ed]; Demosthenes :  Demosthenes. The First Philippic. With An Introduction and Notes. London: Macmillan 1883. (Macmillan's School Class Books) 61p red cloth with gilt lettering, some shelfwear, fraying to head and foot of spine, signature to front endpaper, pencil marks to pages, index, very good condition PKM 116659  £13 

Bell, I H ; Boas, Guy ; Lewis, C S ; Lancaster, Osbert :  Literature and Life: Addresses to the English Association. First Edition. London: Harrap 1948.  165p cloth with green dustjacket, minor shelfwear, inscription to front endpaper, slightly cracked hinge in centre, old bookseller sticker to inner front board, good condition PKM 116091  £18 

Masterman, K C :  The Power of Speech. London: Longman 1952.  174p cloth with green dustjacket, minor shelfwear, fraying to head and foot of spine, inscription to front endpaper, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, index, near fine condition PKM 113979  £32 

Jarmul, David :  Plain Talk: Clear Communication for International Development. Mt. Rainier: Volunteers in Technical Assistance 1981.  75p blue paperback, ex library, corners slightly rubbed, spine slightly worn, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, appendix, very good condition PKM 113442  £6 

Greaney, George ; Aeschines :  Aeschines De Falsa Legatione - On the False Embassy. A Translation with Rhetorical Notes. Lewiston: Mellen Press 2005. (Studies in Classics) 114p yellow illus cloth, nice clean unused copy, half-title page removed PKM 111541  £43 

Fox-Davies, Arthur :  The Book of Public Speaking. 5 Volumes Set. London: Caxton 1913.  332p 322p 322p 303p 323p five volumes set, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, fraying to head and foot of spine, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, index, very good condition PKM 111424  £44 

Berlin, James :  Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies. Urbana: NCTE 1996.  205p purple paperback, pages clean and unmarked, binding firm, index, as new PKM 111231  £9 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius :  Selected Political Speeches. London: Penguin 1969. (Penguin Classics) 335p black paperback, very good condition, owner signature to front free end paper PKM 110661  £8 

Gregor, James :  The Fascist Persuasion in Radical Politics. Princeton University Press 1974.  brown cloth, VG, clean copy, first printing PKM 110193  £12 

Crewe, Ivor :  Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983. Cambridge University Press 1986.  352p cloth with blue jacket, ex lib but as new condition PKM 109383  £18 

Classen, Albrecht et al; Quak, Arend ; Vermeyden, Paula [Eds]:  Wolframs von Eschenbach Titurel-Fragmente und Johanns von W�rzburg Wilhelm von Oesterreich: H�hepunkte der h�fischen Minnereden. (= Amsterdamer Beitr�ge zur �lteren Germanistik, Vol 37, 1993) Amsterdam: Rodopi 1993. (Amsterdamer Beitr�ge zur �lteren Germanistik) 249p large blue card covers, fresh & hardly used copy, various contributors, also includes Elisabeth Meijer: Ein Vergleich der Hohe Minne Lyrik des Mittelaters mit russischer Liebesdichtung aus dem 19. Jahrhundert; Romy G�nthart: M�ren als Exempla, Zum Kontext der sogenannten Strickerm�ren; etc, some contributions in English or Dutch, VG+ PKM 107989  £35 

Demosthenes :  Demosthenes Speech on the Crown. Ed. Evelyn Abbott. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1899. (Clarendon Press Series) 107p 136p red boards, VG clean copy PKM 104767  £8 

Demosthenes :  Three Private Speeches of Demosthenis. Ed. F C Doherty. Oxford University Press 1927.  111p red cloth with black floral design, VG and clean PKM 104644  £8 

Harper, Robert et al:  Nonverbal Communication. The State of the Art. New York: Interscience 1978. (Wiley Series on Personality Processes) 335p hardback w/ dustjacket and protective plastic sleeve, ex lib, good condition, weak inner hinges, some small markings to initial pages, index PKM 102509  £15 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius ; Heitland, William :  M Tulli Ciceronis Pro C. Rabirio (perduellionis reo) oratio ad Quirtes; with notes, introduction and appendices by W. E. Heitland. Cambridge: At the University Press 1882.  130p plus publisher's catalogue, name of R D Hicks on endpaper, nice fresh copy, first edition, ex lib PKM 101842  £22 

Athenaeus :  Athenaei Naucratitae Dipnosophistarum. Vols 1-3, Books 1-15. Leipzig 1897.  491p, 498p & 810p black hardbacks, ex lib w/ usual stamps, rebound by Cambridge Union Society, spines beginning to detach, into in Latin, pages clean apart from occasional pencil example of marginalia, indexes PKM 100701  £80 

Kipling, Rudyard :  Departmental Ditties and Other Verses. London: Methuen 1924. (Pocket Edition) 176p red leather with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt decorations to spine, gilt elephant head and swastika medallion on front board, gilt top edges, ribbon marker, Fine PKM 98951  £5 

Mayor, John :  Thirteen Satires of Juvenal, with a Commentary. Vol 2. London: Macmillan 1900.  451p red cloth, ex lib w/ usual stamps, spine worn, binding slightly loose, clean pages, uncommon title, VG+ PKM 98331  £50 

Ueding, Gert :  Klassische Rhetorik. M�nchen: Beck 1995. (Beck Wissen) blue paperback, VG+ first edition PKM 96237  £5 

Gilman, Sander :  The Parodic Sermon in European Perspective. Aspects of liturgical parody from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1974.  244p white paperback with illus cover, VG+, clean fresh copy PKM 96230  £30 

Ohly, Friedrich :  Der Verfluchte und der Erw�hlte. Vom Leben mit der Schuld. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1976. (Rheinisch-Westf�lische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vortr�ge) 143p yellow paperback, VG+, many plates in the back, VG+ PKM 95981  £24 

Whalen, Joel :  I See What You Mean: Persuasive Business Communication. London: Sage 1996.  black paperback, ex lib, shelfmark and endpaper removed, VG, clean fresh copy PKM 95794  £20 

Kutzner, Patricia :  The Use of Imagery in Wolfram's Parzival: A Distributional Study. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 1975. (Stanford German Studies) 234p blue paperback, as new, never used, excellent copy PKM 95283  £48 

Fouquet, Doris :  Wort und Bild in der mittelalterlichen Tristantradition. Berlin: Schmidt 1971. (Philologische Studien und Quellen) 196p grey paperback, as new, never used, excellent copy PKM 95260  £24 

Szklenar, Hans :  Magister Nicolaus de Dybin. Vorstudien zu einer Edition seiner Schriften. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der literarischen Rhetorik im sp�teren Mittelalter. M�nchen: Artemis 1981. (M�nchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur Deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters) 302p cloth with bright grey dustjacket, as new, excellent copy, as new PKM 95181  £20 

L�mmert, Eberhard :  Reimsprecherkunst im Sp�tmittelalter. Eine Untersuchung der Teichnerreden. Stuttgart: Metzler 1970.  358p cloth dustjacket present, a very good, unused fresh copy, with plates and tabled, excellent condition PKM 95170  £26 

Nolte, Theodor :  Lauda post mortem. Die deutschen und niederl�ndischen Ehrenreden des Mittelalters. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 1983. (Europ�ische Hochschulschriften: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur) 324p white paperback with blue strip design, VG+, unused copy, printed from typescript, paper yellowing PKM 95110  £28 

Marenholtz, Eckehart :  Das glichnisse Meister Eckharts: Form, Inhalt und Funktion: Kleine Studie zur negativen Metaphorik. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 1981. (Europ�ische Hochschulschriften: Deutsche Literatur und Germanistk) 132p white paperback with blue strip design, VG+, unused copy, printed from typescript, as new PKM 95107  £34 

Harant, Patricia :  Poeta Faber. Der Handwerks-Dichter bei Frauenlob. Texte, �bersetzungen, Textkritik, Kommentar und Metapherninterpretation. Erlangen: Palm & Enke 1997. (Erlanger Studien) 186p paperback with stiff red cover, VG+, as new, never used, printed from typescript PKM 94748  £44 

Kurz, Gerhard :  Metapher, Allegorie, Symbol. 2.te Auflage. G�ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1988. (Kleine Vandenhoeck Reihe) 106p blue paperback, small format, VG PKM 94482  £8 

Keil, Gundolf ; Assion, Peter :  Fachprosa-Studien. Beitr�ge zur mittelalterlichen Wissenschafts- und Geistesgeschichte. Berlin: Schmidt 1982.  734p cloth with white paper jacket, excellent copy, hardly used, fresh and without fault, includes illus & folding tables PKM 94394  £36 

Peil, Dietmar :  Der Streit der Glieder mit dem Magen: Studien zur �berlieferungs- und Deutungsgeschichte der Fabel des Menenius Agrippa von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Peter Lang 1985. (Mikrokosmos) 221p yellow paperback, plates in back, as new never used PKM 93966  £54 

Grenzmann, Regina :  Studien zur bildhaften Sprache in der 'Goldenen Schmiede' Konrads von W�rzburg. G�ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1978. (Palaestra) 277p green paperback with wrapper, excellent copy, as new, never used, folding table in back PKM 93712  £26 

Bogaers, Maurice :  Chiastische Strukturen im St. Trudperter Hohen Lied. Amsterdam: Rodopi 1988. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur) 226p green paperback, nice fresh unused copy, as new PKM 93522  £10 

Peil, Dietmar :  Untersuchungen zur Staats- und Herrschaftsmetaphorik in literarischen Zeugnissen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. M�nchen: Fink 1983. (M�nsterische Mittelalter-Schriften) 940p green cloth, A4 format, bright fresh unused copy, uncommon, with illus in the back, printed from typescript, as new: Metaphorologie in Action PKM 92448  £74 

Seiler, Friedrich :  Deutsche Sprichw�rterkunde. M�nchen: Beck 1922. (Handbuch des Deutschen Unterreichts an h�heren Schulen) xi 457p red cloth tall format, art nouvau lettering to board, hinges a bit soft but holding, first edition, VG PKM 92224  £14 

Thery, A :  Modeles de Discours et Allocutions pour les Distributions de Prix dans les Ecoles Primaires des Deux Sexes. Paris: Hachette 1854.  431p rebound in plain green library buckram, excellent copy, slight foxing to some pages, fresh and clean copy, from a government library PKM 91844  £38 

Morley, Henry :  Shorter Works in English Prose, selected, edited and arranged by Henry Morley. Cassell's Library of English Literature, Illustrated. London: Cassell 1890.  440 large format 25cm, orig burgundy cloth with gilt and black ornaments, printed with ornaments and illus, VG, library bookplate PKM 89949  £10 

Shinn, Terry ; Whitley, Richard :  Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation. Dordrecht: Reidel 1985. (Sociology of the Sciences) hardback, with dustjacket, VG+ ex lib, this book has never been used, dustjacket, fitted with transparent sleeve, excellent copy PKM 89688  £92.25 

Hoffmann, Oswald :  Reaching through Preaching. St Louis: Concordia 1955.  27p red paper cover, stapled, large format, VG PKM 89506  £9 

Crewe, Ivor ; Harrop, Martin :  Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983. Cambridge University Press 1986.  thick hardback, dustjacket, as new paper yellowing, VG+ PKM 89167  £21.6 

Rees, Nigel :  Epitaphs. A Dictionary of of Grave Epigrams and Memorial Eloquence. London: Bloomsbury 1994.  red paperback, as new PKM 88525  £7.2 

Myers, Greg :  Matters of Opinion: Talking About Public Issues. Cambridge University Press 2004. (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) 258p hardback, dj, as new, includes review note from publisher PKM 88520  £28.8 

Moger, Ros :  Say what you think. Argument and Discussion Writing by London School Students. Ebury Teacher's Centre 1983.  96p card cover, label, VG PKM 87569  £5.4 

Robinson, W P ; Rackstraw, Susan :  A Question of Answers. 2 Vols. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1972. (Primary socialization, language and education) 2 vols hardback with dustjacket, an excellent set PKM 87482  £13.5 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius ; Nobbe, Carl :  M Tullii Ciceronis Opera Omnia. Recensione Caroli Nobbe. Novis chartis impressa. Leipzig: Holtze 1869.  1460p text in 2 columns, binding poor: both boards (full calf) detached, title page almost entirely consumed, spine absent, but a worthwhile candidate for some tender loving care, sewing intact PKM 86666  £46 

Cahn, Michael ; Mattioli, Emilio :  I linguaggi della lettura: I limiti della ermeneutica. Modena: Studi di Estetica 1987.  Offprint, 22p, VG PKM 86139  £1 

Cahn, Michael :  Es gibt keine Geschichte des Buches. Frankfurt: B�rsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels 1994.  Offprint, 6p, VG pp b33 - b38, polemical review of Merian Exhibition in Koln PKM 86138  £1 

Cahn, Michael :  Eloquent Names of Rhetoric: The Gardens of Eloquence. Anglistentag Marburg 1991.  Offprint, 11p, VG PKM 86132  £1 

Cahn, Michael :  Das Schwanken zwischen Abfall und Wert. Zur Kulturellen Hermeneutik des Sammlers. (Merkur) Offprint 1991.  Offprint, 22p, VG PKM 86131  £3 

Cahn, Michael :  Der Ort des rhetorischen Wissens. Kunst und Natur bei Isokrates. Offprint 1987.  Offprint from Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 11p, VG PKM 86130  £1 

Cahn, Michael :  Pensare con la macchina a vapore. A Proposito di un libro di Otto Mayr. Offprint 1991.  Offprint, 8p, VG PKM 86129  £1 

Cahn, Michael :  Paralipse und Hom�opathie. Denkfiguren als Objekte einer rhetorischen Lekt�re. Offprint 1990.  Offprint, 16p, VG PKM 86128  £1 

Cahn, Michael :  L'Ideologie della Retorica. Helikon 1990.  Offprint, 18p, VG PKM 86127  £1 

Cahn, Michael :  Die Rhetorik der Wissenschaft im Medium der Typographie. Zum Beispiel die Fussnote. (R�ume des Wissens ) Berlin: Akademie 1997.  Offprint, 16p, VG important essay about footnotes PKM 86126  £1 

Argov, Shlomo :  An Ambassador Speaks Out. Speeches and Writings. With an Introduction by Teddy Kollek. Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation 1983.  295p hardback with white pictorial jacket, beginning to yellow, little use, pages clean with frontispiece, VG PKM 85712  £8.1 

Sallinen-Kuparinen, Aino :  Finnish Communication Reticence. Perceptions and Self - Reported Behavior. Academic Dissertation to be Publicly Discussed by Permission of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Jyvaskyla in Auditorium S212 on February 15 1986. Jyvaskyla University Press 1986.  239p blue paperback with card cover, little use, pages clean with bibliography, printed from typescript, VG PKM 85131  £22 

Emerson, Charles Wesley :  Psycho Vox or The Emerson System of Voice Culture. Boston: Emerson Publishing Company 1923.  117p blue cloth with black lettering to cover and spine, some use, pages clean with frontispiece, VG PKM 85096  £16.2 

Caplan, Harry :  Of Eloquence. Studies in Ancient and Medieaval Rhetoric. Edited with an Introduction by Anne King and Helen North. Cornell University Press 1970.  289p hardback with purple paper jacket, first edition, pages clean with footnotes and frontispiece, VG PKM 84382  £24 

Chesney, Kathleen :  Fleurs de Rh�torique from Villon to Marot. Oxford: Blackwell 1950. (Blackwell's French Texts) 119p paperback, clean firm copy PKM 79578  £8 

(No Author) :  Rhetorica. A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. Published 1992 - 199.  Vol 9 (2 issues), Vol 10 (4 issues), Vol 11 (3 issues), one addtl, VG, the lot PKM 79547  £16.2 

Hernadi, Paul :  The Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric. (= Poetics Today, Vol 9, No 2 1988) Durham: Duke University Press 1988.  Papers by Culler Hayden White, Martin Jay, Eagleton, Holquist etc PKM 79546  £10.8 

de Villena, Enrique :  Arte de Trovar. Edicion, Prologo y Notas de F J Sanchez Canton. Madrid: Victoriano Suarez 1923. (Biblioteca Espanola de Divulgacion Cientifica) 98p rebound brown hardback with brown paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, ex-lib hence binding, first edition, little use, pages clean with red speckled edges, nice copy, Spanish language, VG PKM 75447  £9 

Bailey, Andrew :  Talk Works from BT. How to get more out of life through better conversations. British Telecommunication 1997.  94p small booklet with bright yellow back and green front cover, as new, VG+ PKM 73000  £7.2 

Clough, Peter ; Barton, Len :  Articulating with Difficulty. Research Voices in Inclusive Education. London: Paul Chapman 1998.  150p white paperback, ex-lib copy with some pencil and pink highlighter markings, otherwise clean, VG PKM 70620  £15 

Berger, Kenneth :  Speechreading: Principles and Methods. National Educational Press 1972.  233p green cloth with black lettering, ex-lib, pages clean with notes and index, VG PKM 70566  £13.5 

Brodkey, Linda :  Writing Permitted in Designated Areas Only. Minnesota University Press 1996. (Pedagogy and Cultural Practice) 315p grey hardback with red lettering, little use, pages clean and unmarked, VG PKM 68726  £12 

Classen, Carl Joachim [Ed]:  Rhetorica. Austellung aus Anlass der 7. Zweijahrestagung der Internationalen Gesellschaft fuer die Geschichte der Rhetorik vom 26.-29. Juli 1989 in Goettingen. G�ttingen 1989.  102p booklet with medieval stamp on front cover, with dedication on front endpaper, VG+ PKM 67781  £10 

Luther, Martin ; Henkys, J�rgen [Ed]:  Tischreden. Ausgew�hlt und bearbeitet von J�rgen Henkys. Mit Zeichnungen von Henry B�ttner. Berlin: Union 1983.  264p hb, illus, notes, index, excellent copy, VG+ PKM 67581  £9 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius :  Cicero. Selected Political Speeches. On the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius, Against Lucius Sergius Catilina (1-4), In Defence of Marcus Caelius Rufus, In Defence of Titus Annius Milo, etc. Translation by Michael Grant. London: Penguin 1977.  335p paperback with black pictorial cover, some use, pages browning but clean, VG PKM 66700  £6.3 

Myerson, George :  Rhetoric, Reason and Society: Rationality as Dialogue. London: Sage 1995.  160p paperback, this is almost a new copy without any traces of use, but a bit dusty perhaps PKM 62849  £10.8 

Halmos, Paul [Ed]:  The Sociology of Mass-Media Communicators. Keele: University of Keele 1969. (Sociological Review Monograph) 247p large pb, VG ex lib copy PKM 61602  £18 

Raffety, F W [Ed]; Burke, Edmund :  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4: Burke's Writings and Speeches. Oxford University Press 1907. (World's Classics) xiii 375p faint green cloth, lettering to spine, spine sunned, appendices, index, still VG copy: Revolution in France, Letter to a Member, French Affairs� PKM 60695  £9 

Curran, James ; Gurevitch, Michael [Eds]:  Mass Media and Society. Second Edition. London: Arnold 1997.  379p, large pb, index, VG copy little used PKM 58882  £11 

Miner, Earl [Ed]:  Seventeenth Century Imagery: Essays on Uses of Figurative Language from Donne to Farquhar. Los Angeles: California University Press 1971.  xxi 202p cloth, dj, index VG+ PKM 56812  £12.6 

Allen, Edward :  How to write and speak Effective English: A Modern Guide to Good Form. Cleveland: World Publishing 1944.  329p cloth dj torn, index, VG PKM 53099  £7.2 

Cicero, Marcus Tullius :  Cicero Pro Milone. Ed. F H Coulson. London: Macmillan 1931. (Classical Series) 136p red cloth, firm copy, notes, sl dusty/aged PKM 51474  £8 

Butcher, S H :  Demosthenes. London: Macmillan 1881. (Classical Writers) 172p small brown cloth, a rather worn ex lib copy, unusual lettering on back cover PKM 50167  £7.2 

Sessions, William [Ed]:  Studies in Seventeenth-Century Prose. (Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol 10, no 2) Atlanta: Georgia State Univ 1977.  viii 128p orig paper cover, VG+: Essays by Vos, Pebworth, Sandler, Patrick, Huntley, Patterson etc PKM 50074  £12.6 

Griffiths, F J :  Speech in Schools. London: Blackie 1951.  x 180p red cloth, exercises, hardly used ex lib copy, VG PKM 49759  £14.4 

Bradlaugh, Charles :  Speeches by Charles Bradlaugh. London: Freethought Publishing 1890.  iv 212p cloth with gilt on cover and spine, frontisp with real photo, first collected edition, sl weak inner hinges, very faint foxing on title page, VG+ PKM 49049  £54 

Snook, I A [Ed]:  Concepts of Indoctrination: Philosophical Essays. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1972. (International Library of the Philosophy of Education) xiv 210p blue cloth, index, notes, bibliography, various contributors, faint marginal markings on a few pages, VG ex lib copy, very little used PKM 46736  £16.2 

Emden, Cecil [Ed]:  Selected Speeches on the Constitution. Oxford University Press 1939. (World's Classics) 2 vols: xv 258p, viii 306p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, nice pocket-sized 2 vol set, ex lib, VG PKM 46201  £12 

Demosthenes :  Pro Ctesiphonte, De Corona Oratio. Ed. B Drake. London: Macmillan 1928.  212p 17cm, red cloth, VG+ PKM 45895  £9 

Robinson, Helen [Ed]:  Oral Aspects of Reading: Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Reading held at the University of Chicago, 1955, Vol 17. Chicago University Press 1955. (Supplemetary Educational Monographs) vii 166p large pb A4 format, index, various contributors, VG ex lib copy PKM 44977  £18 

Schwartz, Bill [Ed]:  On Ideology. Birmingham: Contemporary Cultural Studies 1977. (Working Papers in Cultural Studies) 271p large pb, essays incl Hall: 'The Hinterland of Science'; McDonough: 'Ideology as False Consciousness'; Molina: 'Notes on Marx and the Problem of Individuality', advertisements to rear, cover sl creased, VG- PKM 42249  £10.8 

Burke, Edmund :  Speech on Conciliation with America. Ed. H Lamont. London: Ginn & Co 1897. (Athenaeum Press) lxxii 152p green cloth, gilt lettering to spine & cover, introduction, notes, index, VG, fresh copy PKM 42021  £10.8 

Logue, Calvin ; Dorgan, Howard [Eds]:  A New Diversity in Contemporary Southern Rhetoric. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press 1987.  viii 268p buff cloth, dj, index, VG+ PKM 40414  £11.25 

Griffiths, Richard :  The Dramatic Technique of Antoine de Montchrestien. Rhetoric and Style in French Renaissance Tragedy. Oxford University Press 1970.  xiii 236p hb, gilt lettering to spine, bibliogr, index, inscribed by author, VG+ PKM 39707  £9 

Kirsch, Doris :  La Bruy�re ou Le style cruel. Montr�al: Les Presses de l'Universit� de Montr�al 1977.  143p pb, bibliography, VG PKM 39392  £7.2 

Christiansen, Werner :  Kleiner kommunistischer Zitatenschatz. Bad Godesberg: Esto 1960.  240p red paperback, appendix, VG PKM 39199  £7 

Pelster, Theodor :  Die politische Rede im Westen und Osten Deutschlands: Vergleichende Stiluntersuchung mit beigef�gten Texten. D�sseldorf: Schwann 1966. (Beihefte zu "Wirkenden Wort") 160p large pb, ink markings on many pages, back cover sl torn, bibliography PKM 39014  £6.75 

Buckley, Thomas [Transl]:  Treatise on Rhetoric, literally translated from the Greek, with the Analysis by T Hobbes, also the Poetics. London: Bohn 1851. (Bohn's Classical Library) iv 500p frontisp (foxing), embossed cloth, spine poor and largely absent, a few old pencil notes, includes Analytical Questions, the Poetics, etc. PKM 37934  £13.5 

Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung :  Geschichte mahnt: 30. Januar 1933 - 30. Januar 1983: Reden auf der Feierstunde "30. Januar 1933 - 30. Januar 1983, Erfahrungen der Geschichte" am 30. Januar 1983 im Reichtagsgeb�ude in Berlin. Bonn: Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung 1983. (Berichte und Dokumentationen) 95p sm booklet with a unfunny title, contributors include Richard von Weizs�cker, Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl and Karl Dietrich Bracher, photogr plates, VG PKM 37675  £2.7 

Zimmermann, Hans :  Die politische Rede: Der Sprachgebrauch Bonner Politiker. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1972.  237p large pb, 42p of appendix, bibliography, includes speeches by Rainer Barzel, Fritz Erler and other politicians with analysis, VG PKM 37598  £6.3 

Arens, Karlpeter :  Manipulation: Kommunikationspsychologische Untersuchung mit Beispielen aus Zeitungen des Springer-Konzerns. Berlin: Spiess 1973. (Schriftenreihe zur Publizistikwissenschaft) 96p booklet, notes, bibliography, almost as new, with a chapter: Ideologie der Ideologielosigkeit PKM 37430  £6.3 

Lutz, Luise :  Dimensionen der Textbeurteilung und ihre Beziehungen zu objektiven Textmerkmalen. Frankfurt: Lang 1977. (Forum Linguisticum) 285p pb, one section detached from spine, newspaper article and photocopy laid in, bibliography, appendix, tables, VG PKM 37353  £10.8 

Weinberg, Johannes :  Deutsch f�r Deutsche: Sprache im Alltag. Frankfurt: Fischer 1971.  124p pb, texts on various speech situations, with questions, illustrations, VG PKM 37286  £7.2 

Cornelius, Hans :  ABC der Werbung: Ein Ratgeber f�r die Werbepraxis. Berlin: Weiss 1964.  160p pb, spine sl torn, illustrations, plates, tables, index, VG PKM 37253  £7.2 

Schreinert, Gerhard :  Von Verb, Satzbau und Stil. Berlin: Volk und Wissen 1972.  125p pb, VG PKM 37192  £4.5 

Schild, Hans-Jochen :  Sprache und Herrschaft: Studien zur Theorie politischer Rhetorik und ihrer zeitgen�ssischen Praxis in den USA. Frankfurt: Goethe Universit�t 1972.  vii 354p paper cover, bibliography, appendix, VG, dissertation PKM 37131  £9 

Schrey, Helmut :  Didaktik der politischen Rede in England. Ratingen: Henn 1972. (Beitr�ge zur Fachdidaktik) 168p pb, cover dusty, appendices, bibliography, as new PKM 37040  £5.4 

Zapf, Otto :  Richtiges Amtsdeutsch: Ein Lehr- und Lernbuch der deutschen Sprache. Reichenberg: Beamtenpresse 1944.  226p pb, cover torn, detaching binding, pages yellowed, a few faint marginal markings, otherwise VG: Verteidigung des Amtsdeutsch gegen seine Ver�chter PKM 36958  £15.3 

Montgomery, Scott :  The Scientific Voice. New York: Guilford 1996.  xiv 459p black hb, index, as new PKM 36323  £16.2 

Stebbing, Susan :  Logic in Practice. London: Methuen 1934. (Monographs on Philosphy and Psychology) 113p red cloth, dj, small format, VG+ first edition PKM 35872  £18 

Demosthenes :  The Olynthiac and other Public Orations of Demosthenes. Transl with notes, by Charles Rann Kennedy. London: Bohn 1852. (Bohn's Classical Library) 312p embossed cloth fresh and firm, hinges intact, largely uncut, 32p Bohn Catalogue of New Books at Reduced Prices bound in, VG+ PKM 35833  £16.2 

Buckley, Thomas [Transl]:  Threatise on Rhetoric, literally translated from the Greek, with the Analysis by T Hobbes. London: Bohn 1857. (Bohn's Classical Library) iv 500p frontisp (foxing), embossed cloth fresh and firm, hinges intact, top and bottom and spine worn, includes Analytical Questions, the Poetics, etc. PKM 35831  £18 

Hibbard, George [Ed]:  Three Elizabethan Pamphlets. London: Harrap 1951. (Life, Literature and Thought Library) 244p hb, dustjacket. gossary, notes, a few pencil marks, VG: contains a long introduction to pamphlet literature by editor, and text of Greene: Third Part of Conycatching, Nashe: Pierce Pennilesse Supplication, Dekker: Wonderful Year, prints a modernised text, VG PKM 34582  £12 

Cherry, Richard ; Conley, Robert [Eds]:  A Return to Vision. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1971.  xxi 400p large pb, anthology of philosophical rhetoric, criticism, narrative and poetry, writers inc Edith Hamilton, Nietzsche, Aldous Huxley, Albert Camus, Steiner, etc, bibliogr, VG PKM 33189  £10.8 

Dobozy, Maria ; Blacker, Jean [Eds]:  Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society Vol 14 (1992) to Vol 26 (2004), lacking vol 22/23. Amherst: ICLS 1993 - 1999.  large pink pbs, 8 vols each contains society's transactions for year, book reviews & bibliogr of year's work in field, followed by list of members PKM 32782  £34 

Franck, F :  Personal and Social German Letter-Writer. (Deutscher Briefsteller) Rev ed by J C H Schafhausen. Marlborough 1911.  128p brown cloth, index, publishers advertisements to rear, binding sl loose, VG PKM 31927  £8.1 

Guiraud, Pierre :  La Stylistique. 5th ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1967. (Que sais-je?) 120p 17cm pb, bibliogr, sl bump to bottom left corner otherwise VG PKM 31575  £3.6 

(No Author) :  Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol 12 no 4. California University Press 1994.  [108]p pb, as new. Cicero's Verrine orations, le definizioni de figura in Quintiliano, rh�torique dans l'�p�tre aux Galates. English, French and Italian PKM 31360  £7.2 

(No Author) :  Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol 12 no 3. California University Press 1994.  [120]p pb, as new. Galileo's letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, renaissance Polish commentaries on Aristotle, imagination in English natural religion, a rhetorical ontology for modern science PKM 31359  £7.2 

(No Author) :  Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol 12 no 1. California University Press 1994.  126p pb, as new. Luther's Am Neujahrstage, Rhetoric for 17th-century salons, the unpublished rhetoric lectures of Robert Watson PKM 31358  £7.2 

(No Author) :  Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol 11 no 4. California University Press 1993.  [102]p pb, as new. Greek table-talk, le dialogue platocien, la conversation � Rome, un rendez-vous manqu�, most papers in French PKM 31356  £7.2 

(No Author) :  Retorica e Retoriche. ( = Rivista di Estetica 25, anno 27) Torino: Rivista di Estetica 1987.  159p pb, notes, bibliogr, one or two small pen marks / underlinings. Incl Frye: Incantesimi ed enigmi, Barilli: Dante e la retorica, Caprettini: I circuiti del discorso PKM 31330  £9 

Hermann, Karl :  Die Technik des Sprechens: Ein Handbuch f�r Redner und S�nger. Leipzig: Kesselringsche Hofbuchhandlung 1898.  231p original gilt embossed cloth, illus, bibliogr, red and blue pencil marks / notes, corners sl worn, dedicated to J Stockhausen PKM 30734  £9 

Duncan, Professor :  How to Talk Correctly: A Pocket Manual to Promote Polite and Accurate Conversation, Writing and Reading. Wakefield: Nicholson 1890.  125p 15cm burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to cover, binding rather loose, spine sl scuffed, good only PKM 30352  £7.2 

Stemp, Leslie :  Speeches and Toasts: How to Make and Propose Them. Rev ed. London: Ward 1925.  192p embossed cloth, VG+, only very sl rubbing to corners and spine ends PKM 28042  £10.8 

Partridge, Eric [Ed]:  A Dictionary of Clich�s, with an introductory essay. 4th ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1972.  x 262p cloth, gilt lettering on spine, pink dj, ex library near fine, hardly used PKM 27877  £10 

Royse, Albert :  V D: The Monster Crime of Humanity. London: Stockwell 1920.  62p 19cm orange paper covered boards with old adhesive tape, embosssed gilt title, moralist tract on the evils of venereal disease, incl chapters entitled "Personal Purity", "Sowing and Reaping" and "The Conquest of the Preventable" - "Father, where is your wandering boy tonight? Mother, where is your beautiful girl?" - ex lib VG+ PKM 27688  £18 

Wilder, Amos :  Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel. London: SCM 1964. (New Testament Library) 143p cloth dj (few small hurts to edges), indexes, occasional small neat marginal pen marks, ex lib PKM 25394  £10.8 

(No Author) :  Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum. 20th rev ed. London: Murray 1841.  xxviii 170p half cloth, paper label on spine, colour frontisp, cover sl marked, corners rubbed, spine detached except at bottom edge: Losers of a competition to write an address for the opening of the rebuilt Drury Lane Theatre in 1812, incl offerings by Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Coleridge PKM 25232  £8 

Bacon, Francis :  [Essays] The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Bacon Lord Verulam. Dent / Everyman 1936.  xxxvi 200p 17cm orange cloth, intro by Oliphant Smeaton, index, glossary, VG PKM 25055  £7.2 

Carrilho, Manuel :  Rh�toriques de la Modernit�. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1992. (L'Interrogation Philosophique) 176p large pb, bibliogr, hardly used, as new PKM 23189  £10.8 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell :  The Poet at the Breakfast-Table. Edinburgh: Paterson 1889.  320p 17cm cloth, gilt top edge, some verses, sl wear to ends of spine otherwise VG+ PKM 22906  £5 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell :  The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Edinburgh: Paterson 1889.  288p 17cm cloth, gilt top edge, some verses, sl wear to ends of spine otherwise VG+ PKM 22905  £5 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell :  The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man his own Boswell. Edinburgh: Paterson 1889.  viii 280p 17cm cloth, gilt top edge, illus, sl wear to ends of spine otherwise VG+ PKM 22904  £5 

Staub, Michael :  Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America. Cambridge University Press 1994. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) xii 174p cloth dj, notes, bibliogr, index, as new PKM 22616  £9 

(No Author) :  Rhetoric 1: Rhetorical Analysis. (= Special Issue of New Literary History 1978) (no imprint) 1978.  [204]p card cover, VG+: Vernant, Brombert, Culler, Brooks, etc PKM 18563  £9 

Demosthenes :  Demosthenes: The Orations. Transl Thomas Leland. London: Colburn 1830.  x 336p 15cm, half calf intact and well preserved, PKM 18561  £14 

Toffano, Piero :  La Figura dell'Antitesi nelle Massime di La Rochefoucauld. Fasano: Schena 1989.  168p wrappers, index, VG+: Paradosso etico e scandalo logico, Pascal, Voltaire PKM 17766  £8 

Moyes, A J :  Debating Chambers in the House of Commons. No Publisher 1950?.  36p stapled, many plates, including commonwealth parliaments, and historical chambers PKM 17705  £12 

Biason, Maria Teresa :  La massima o il "saper dire". Palermo: Sellerio 1990.  152p wrapper, VG+: La Rochfoucauld: Maximes PKM 16494  £7.2 

Schanze, Helmut [Ed]:  Rhetorik. Beitr�ge zu ihrer Geschichte in Deutschland vom 16 - 20 Jhdt. Frankfurt: Athenaion 1974.  355phardback, index, with an extensive bibliogr, VG+ as new PKM 16051  £20 

Watkins, Dwight :  Effective Speech. Marple: Psychology Publications 1910.  64p 62p orange cloth, VG PKM 15685  £7 

[Shakespeare, William]:  The Speaker's Art. New York: Putnam 1931.  xxii 168p cloth, dj, plates, The speaker's training, the instrument of the voice, delivery, pitch, etc, with marked excerpts from the bard PKM 15679  £6 

Grierson, Herbert :  Rhetoric and English Composition. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1944.  ix 162p cloth, dj, fresh copy PKM 15355  £6.3 

Cederberg, Ann :  Stil och Strategi i Riksdagsretoriken. En unders�kning av debattsprakets utveckling i den svenska tvakammarriksdagen, 1867 - 1970. Uppsala: Nordiska Sprak 1993.  174p card cover, VG+ PKM 15248  £7.2 

Righter, William :  The Rhetorical Hero: An Essay on the Aesthetics of Andr� Malraux. London: Routledge 1964.  ix 92p cloth, VG PKM 13716  £5.4 

Hartley, A M :  The Oratorical Class-Book with the Principles of Elocution simplified and illustrated by suitable Examples. Glasgow: Blackie 1862.  xlviii 310p full black calf, top bd detached, first 50 pages contain "principles", followed by extracts: Miscellaneous, pathetic, biographical, sacred, ancient, modern, blank verse, dramatic, soliloquies, dialogues, & comic. PKM 12911  £15.75 

Koelb, Clayton :  Inventions of Reading. Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination. Cornell University Press 1988.  xiv 265p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, new: Rhetorical construction, producing writing out of reading PKM 11237  £6 

Mais, S P B :  An English Course for Everybody. London: Richards 1922.  320p cloth, dj, sl foxing: English for all, enjoyment without footnotes: Reading, Speaking, Writing, Criticism, Literature PKM 11147  £6 

Franck, Irene :  Communicators. New York: Facts On File 1986. (Work Throughout History) xii 228p half cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, no footnotes: Authors, Clerks, Editors, Journalists, Messengers, Printers, Publishers, Secretaries etc PKM 10321  £8.1 

De Quincey, Thomas :  Essays. Ed. Charles Whibley. London: Blackie 1910?. (Red Letter Library) xii 356p 16cm red morocco orn gilt (edges worn and threadbare, spine dull), frontisp, very nice printing, incl Rhetoric, Tartars, Mail Coach, Suspiria etc PKM 9530  £9 

Waldstein, Edith :  Bettine von Arnim and the Politics of Romantic Conversation. Columbia: Camden House 1988.  126p cloth, index, bibliogr, new: with a chapter Women's Voices PKM 9518  £14 

Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Calder, William [Ed]:  Abriss der Geschichte der Beredsamkeit. A New Edition. Offprint 1992.  28p VG: new ed of this short text. PKM 9429  £5.4 

Perrin, John :  The Elements of French Conversation with Familiar and Easy Dialogues in French and English, Designed for the Use of Schools. London: Longman, Law et al 1813.  vii 160p full calf, top board detached, this ed revised by C Gros PKM 5635  £14.4 

Fabre, Maurice :  A History of Communications. transl from French. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1964.  116p cloth, 4to format, wonderfully illus throughout PKM 1845  £8.1 

Campbell, Charles :  The Business of Authorship. The New Writers' Guide. London: Boardman 1965.  106p boards, dj, VG PKM 1768  £5.4 

Joseph, Michael :  Short Story Writing for Profit. London: Hutchinson 1923.  xv 221p cloth, label (fresh), dj, VG PKM 1743  £9 

 
   
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