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New York: S.F. Vanni, 1955. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 663p. A dark red cloth hardcover book in good condition. No dustjacket. Spine slightly faded. Corners bumped. Front hinge reinforced with white duct tape. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers and title page. Otherwise, text clean and binding secure.
THE WORLD'S CHIEF LANGUAGES. by Pei, Mario A - (1955).
by Pei, Mario A
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THE WORLD'S CHIEF LANGUAGES.
by Pei, Mario A
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New York: The Devin-Adair Co., (1955)., (1955).. Good. - Octavo, maroon cloth. The spine is faded & lightly spotted with the rear joint worn & slightly frayed. The bottom corner of the front cover is creased & there is some staining to the bottom edge of the rear cover. 663 pages. Illustrated with linguistic maps & alphabets. A previous owner's name is penned on the front endpaper. There are numerous check marks in the table of contents. There is a small area of soiling to the bottom edge of the book & to the bottom corner of the rear endpaper. Good. <p>Fourth edition.<p>Formerly titled "Languages for War and Peace".
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- Publisher New York: The Devin-Adair Co., (1955).
- Date Published (1955).
- Keywords LINGUISTICS; THE CHIEF LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD; LANGUAGES FOR WAR AND PEACE; MARIO A. PEI; LINGUISTIC MAPS. ALPHABETS; GRAMMAR.
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THE WORLD'S CHIEF LANGUAGES: Formerly Languages for War and Peace
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The World's Chief Languages
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New York: The Devin-Adair Co., 1955 Hardcover Very good-plus book in about fair dust jacket. Jacket has two inch section missing from bottom spine, tears, missing chips, and newer tape holding it together. Clean text just slight evidence of previous owner's name erased in pencil on front endpaper. Solid binding. Fourth edition. No DJ. 1949, 663 pp. Linguistic Maps, Alphabets and illustrations. .
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The World's Chief Languages
by Mario A. Pei
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Allen & Unwin, 1954. Third Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. 1954 third edition, George Allen and Unwin (London), 6 x 8 3/4 inches tall x 1 3/4 inches thick orange cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated with maps, 663 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to boards, especially lower edges. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in an only slightly edgeworn dust jacket with a bit of sun toning to spine but which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~SP38~ [3.0P] Mario Andrew Pei (1901-1978) was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics. Dr. Pei was widely admired for being wittily fluent in several languages, besides his native Italian and his adopted English, and for being able in his many books to make philology and etymology fascinating subjects…
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