An Introduction to Modern Arabic

8vo; original dark green cloth, lettered in black and silver gilt on spine; no dustwrapper; pp. xii + (ii) + 298. Extremities a little rubbed; earlier owner's name to front free endpaper; ink stamp of Shakespeare and Company, Paris, to title page; many annotations. Fair to good. 'Now the English-speaking student has available to him a book designed to meet his particular needs as one encountering for the first time a language that is truly foreign The attempt embodies years of teaching experience and involves years of work on the part of the authors. The joint authorship represents a happy combination of one in whose blood Arabic flows and one who "having suffered is able to succour them that are tempted." '.