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A Guide to the World's Languages--Volume I: Classification (This volume only)
by Ruhlen, Merritt
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0804712506
- ISBN 13
- 9780804712507
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. Volume one only! First edition, 1987, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 433pp., sparsely illustrated with b&w maps. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with mild edgewear.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B36244
- Title
- A Guide to the World's Languages--Volume I: Classification (This volume only)
- Author
- Ruhlen, Merritt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0804712506
- ISBN 13
- 9780804712507
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, CA
- Date Published
- 1987
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- Spine
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