DRIVER, G. R.

A Grammar of the Colloquial Arabic of Syria and Palestine.

London, Probsthain & Co, 1925. Original printed wrappers, xii+257+[iii]pp. Probsthain catalogue to rear. Spine chipped top and tail, age discolouration to upper cover, fore-edges darkened, sewing a little adrift in centre. However, this is a tight copy otherwise, clean throughout and a good example of this classic work. Collectable; Good "this work represents both in quality and in quantity a very great advance on anything which had been published before in English.. no attempt had. been made before to distinguish between these two dialects.. it is a much more scholarly work than Willmore's excellent book on the spoken Arabic of Egypt." R. P. Dewhurst, 1926. Paperback.

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Book number: 29428

Catalogue: Antiquarian & Rare Language

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