Abdul fady (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. No edition remarks. 120 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xii, 128 pp., frontispiece, b/w plates, cloth in d/w, previous owner's name inscribed verso lower cover, light shelf wear to jacket, otherwise copy inside clean & in very good condition, no date [1936]. #9719.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Two highly informative and scarce educational Arabic-English dictionaries and educational guides. Two Arabic and English language educational works from the 1920s.The first of these - lacking the title page - is the 1921 second edition of 'Arabic Simplified: A Practical Grammar of Written Arabic in 200 Lessons' by Arthur T. Upson [Abdul-Fady al-Qahirany], based on the system of Rev. J. C. Wilcox. First published in 1917, this is a very scarce work.The second volume is the 1928 revised and updated second edition of 'Elias' Modern Dictionary: Arabic-English', published by Elias A. Elias and authored by Elias and Socrates Spiro.Two fascinating works providing insight into Arabic and English languages in the 1920s. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with handling marks to boards. Rear hinge of Simplified strained but firmly held. Spotting to front board of Simplified. Front hinge of Elias strained, but firmly held. Internally, generally firmly bound but with title page of Simplified lacking. Pages age toned due to paper type, but clean. Good. None (illustrator). book.…