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Language Its Nature Development and Origin
by Jespersen, Otto
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, 1922. Very good. Ribbed forest green cloth, very good, minor bump to bottom corners. Distinguished professor's copy with his bookplate and sepia signature on endpaper: George Weida Spohn. A tight square copy. No dust jacket. Uncommon in first edition. Jespersen was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language, described as "one of the greatest language scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." "Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin" (1922) is considered by many to be his masterpiece
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- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 298349
- Title
- Language Its Nature Development and Origin
- Author
- Jespersen, Otto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1922
- Weight
- 1.56 lbs
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