The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English in Two Parts
Twain, Mark
Published by James R. Osgood, 1883
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In good condition. Boards are lightly worn with typical shelf wear along edges and corners. Spine extremes lightly frayed. Old hand ownership on front fly leaf. Front gutter nominally shaken. First six pages lightly dinged on top edge. Does not affect text. Typical toning with minimal foxing. Binding tight and intact. Free of known marginalia. Please see photos. Introduction by Twain. First American edition later re-printed as English as She is Spoke . Its delicious unconscious ridiculousness and its enchanting naïveté, are as supreme and unapproachable, in their way, as are Shakespeare s sublimities. . Seller Inventory # RAREA1883DKLK
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Title: The New Guide of the Conversation in ...
Publisher: James R. Osgood
Publication Date: 1883
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
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[English as She Is Spoke] The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English in Two Parts
Published by
James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1883
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First US edition. Fonseca and Carolino's inadvertent masterpiece has been called many things. "Perhaps the worst foreign phrasebook ever written" . A book of "miraculous stupidities." "The most ludicrous foreign attempt ever made to teach our language." Most often under the title English as She Is Spoke.the mid-nineteenth-century Portuguese phrasebook has become a minor classic. Yet it is not as a book of instruction intended for those Portuguese who would learn English that it has survived-nay thrived-for the last century and a half, but rather it is as a work of accidental comedy and unintended humor."-George Monteiro. The New Guide to Conversation began as an 1836 French-Portuguese phrasebook by José da Fonseca; in 1855, Pedro Carolino, with only a limited grasp of English, translated the French text to make an English-Portuguese phrase book. In succeeding years, excerpts made the rounds of English-language magazines until in 1883, a London publisher reprinted the book under the title, English As She Is Spoke, and within a year, six editions appeared (the book was not protected by copyright). This is apparently the first American edition (published in mid-1883), and the first edition with an introduction by Mark Twain. For more information, see BAL 3412 and George Monteiro, English as She Is Spoke: 150 Years of a Classic, Luso-Brazilian Review, Volume 41, Number 1, 2004. First American edition and first edition with the Twain preface (first printing). A very good copy in somewhat scuffed thin cloth-covered boards; the cloth is beginning to fray at the top of the spine (there was also a simultaneous paperback version). Uncommon. Seller Inventory # 362701
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The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English in Two Parts
Published by
James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1883
Used
First Edition
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Near Fine. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American Edition, wrapper issue. 12mo. 182 pp. Printed wraps. Touch of creasing and curling to corners. Binding sound. Faint spotting to endpapers, else unmarked; a remarkably well-preserved, Near Fine copy. Commonly known under the title, "English as She Is Spoke," Carolino's inaccurate and unidiomatic translations are now widely considered an inadvertent comic masterpiece. In his introduction, Twain remarks, "nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect, it must and will stand alone; its immortality is secure." Wrapper issue rather scarce and rare in this condition. [BAL 3412]. Seller Inventory # 31194
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