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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Title

Language Its Nature Development and Origin

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company

Publication Date

1922

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

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