For Sale:

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

Good homes sought for the following Russian books


1 x Oxford Russian Dictionary (bought for £35, will sell for £20 + postage) (has a bit of writing on it, but nothing that will make it impossible to use)

1 x Comprehensive Russian Grammar - Terry Wade (bought for £25, will sell for £15 + postage) (again, has a couple of notes in it, but nothing that will make it impossible to use.)

1 x Book One Nahchala (Начало) Lubensky et al. Excercise book and CD. (perfect for those going to study Ab Initio Russian... Especially at the University of Manchester, as that's the book specified in the course directory). (Bought for £30, will sell for £20 including postage)

1 x 501 Russian verbs. Bought for £10, will sell for (£5 incl. postage).

They're suited to intermediate/advanced learners of Russian (with the exception of Nachala) and are on most of the British university reading lists for the subject. (Possibly the same abroad, I'm obviously not sure).

Whilst I'd prefer to send the books within the UK, I will consider posting to Europe/US/wherever, so long as the buyer is prepared to pay the postage... as they're very heavy books.

Before anyone has a go and tells me to use eBay, I'd sooner the books be offered to serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.


Cross posted to linguaphiles

Comments

Ayup

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I have a good home to offer and want to get back into learning Russian...

Re: Ayup

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! What can I do you for?

Re: Ayup

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

The dictionary - is that the massive hardcover (I have a consise one, might be worth "updating")?

Grammar sound good, don't have one. Course is definitely interesting as well. Well, and while I'm at it, I guess I can take the verbs as well.

Any idea about how much postage could be to Kent?

Re: Ayup

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the beast one. Absolute beast. I haven't got a clue, but I'll do the working out and such.

Re: Ayup

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

It will be complete overkill for a *long* time, but yes. :)

Re: Ayup

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

It's alright.. I bought it with 4 years of a Russian degree in mind.. survived the first semester and a half before realising "meh, should've just stuck to German", thus letting the books gather dust. I'd hardly call it overkill...

Anyway... assuming the dictionary is 1kg (my scales are dodgy) postage for that should be about £4 first class. I'll set a paypal account up or something to make life easier.

Re: Ayup

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Cool. You're learning German? (I am, German, that is). :) And find out what the whole packet is like. It's not urgent or anything. :)

Re: Ayup

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

Jawohl! Have been for about 7 years now. Ok, I'll work it out when I have access to better scales and let you know.

[embers.livejournal.com]

Ughhh I was so pissed my school wouldn't buy back my Начало book. Maybe I'll try on here too someday.

(frozen) serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[coldmacana.livejournal.com]

Uhm. Why can't you post these at Ebay/Amazon, again? It's actually appropriate to do so there...Oh, you are doing the "linguists" a favor! I think your books are safe on either of those sites. After all, I don't know of many people who would invest the kind of money you are asking just to purchase a good Oxford door-stop or paper-weight? And I don't think that the Nazis have quite made the Internet their preferred source of books to burn either...

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

Sorry I haven't put them up on Amazon and eBay then. I There's no need to be an arsehole about it, is there?

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[coldmacana.livejournal.com]

Wait. You clutter up this community's page with a completely self-serving advertisement (and don't even bother with a to boot) and I'm the "arsehole" (to use your lovely language)?!?!?! Nice.

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[coldmacana.livejournal.com]

^---should read "with a CUT to boot"

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[cheetr.livejournal.com]

Wait. You clutter up this page with a completely trollish flame (and don't even bother with proofreading it to boot). Nice.

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

Well if you have a problem with me offering Russian books to Russian learners on a Russian learning community, then please, report me to the community's moderator. I don't think my post is big enough to warrant an LJ cut to be honest. I've got better things to do than get into an argument with some petty Troll. So I bid you good day.

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[coldmacana.livejournal.com]

Thanks again for more name-calling. I suppose it's too much to expect you to have some basic maturity. The "petty Troll" requests that in the future, you dispense with the charade of "Serving the Community" and shell out that exorbitant sum of 50 pence or whatever it costs to list your books on Ebay. I bid you good evening.

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[piggelin.livejournal.com]

May I ask you just exactly how I've offended you? I've not broken any of the community's rules, so just out of curiosity...

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Oh, cut it out.

(frozen) Re: serious linguists first, eBay/Amazon market place second.

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Well, soprry for taking up space with this. I am quite happy about the offer. :)