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Urdu Companion
Book Description
Presumed first edition, Small square 4to; original printed wrappers; some soiling, rusting around staples and pencil marks on front wrapper, a good copy. pp. 94, the first 53 pages with dictionary, the rest paginated but left blank for the students' own vocabulary to be filled in; n.p, HMSO, 1941.
Dealer Notes
It was published to assist British officers to ‘…extend their vocabulary of Urdu.’ Part I covers around 850 useful words whilst Part II covers the additional meanings of common English words in general use in India and in the army.Library Hub lists just three holdings which is surprising given it’s print run of 62,000."
Author
General Staff, India
Date
1944
Binding
softback
Condition
G
Pages
94
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