EL-KALAM-EL'ARABI ED-DARIJ IN SYRIA [Colloquial Speech in Syria]

Scherer, George H.; Hitti, Habib. EL-KALAM-EL'ARABI ED-DARIJ IN SYRIA [Colloquial Speech in Syria]. Suk-el-Gharb, Lebanon, Syria: The Missionary Training School, PCUSA, 1920. [3636]

Brown blindstamped cloth, gilt title in Arabic on spine, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, shaken with the front end paper hinge torn yet nothing detached. Fair. Hardcover.

"The purpose of this book is to aid the foreigner in his struggle to learn the colloquial Arabic of Syria and Palestine." Written by the Principal and Assistant Principal of the Missionary Training School of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. of A.

Signed on the ffep, "Isabel E. McFarland, Latakia, Syria. Dec. 1/21." Then in a different hand, "Bought by C. T. Hutcheson 1938."

The school was located in West Market, Beirut, and the book was printed by the American Press, Beirut.