Torwali an Account of the Dardic Language of the Swat Kohistan
by Grierson, Sir George Abraham
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
London: 125, 1929 London: 125, 1929 216 pp with a map frontis. "Based on materials collected in Torwal by Sir Aurel Stein with a note by Sir Aurel Stein on Torwal and its people." Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards are clean and undamaged. The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca) are a sub-group of the Indo-Aryan languages natively spoken in northern Pakistan's Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northern India's Jammu and Kashmir, and eastern Afghanistan. Torwali is a Dardic settlement in northern Afganistan. Presumed First. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Presumed First.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 700627
- Title
- Torwali an Account of the Dardic Language of the Swat Kohistan
- Author
- Grierson, Sir George Abraham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First.
- Publisher
- 125
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- SIR AUREL STEIN - INDIC LANGUAGES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Afganistan, Hunza, Central Asia;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
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About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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