A DICTIONARY OF THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES, ACCOMPANIED WITH THIRTY-ONE BILOXI TEXTS AND NUMEROUS BILOXI PHRASES (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 47)
by Dorsey, James Owen and Swanton, John R
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Washington:Government Printing Office, 1912. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Washington:Government Printing Office. 1912. v+340pp. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine dulled, with a sticker to the upper left corner of front board, with a typed designation of Z 37. (Maybe where shelved?). The rear board has some indents to boards, as if were once tied together with something else. Internally, a very good, clean copy, save for the shadow of an erased checkmark to top of outside edge of the title page. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26121
- Title
- A DICTIONARY OF THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES, ACCOMPANIED WITH THIRTY-ONE BILOXI TEXTS AND NUMEROUS BILOXI PHRASES (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 47)
- Author
- Dorsey, James Owen and Swanton, John R
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Washington:Government Printing Office
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- LINGUISTICS; DICTIONARY; BILOXI; OFO; LANGUAGE; INDIANS; ETHNOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY;
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Soiled
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