Studies Presented to Professor Roman Jakobson by His Students [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]

Gribble, Charles E. (Ed.). Studies Presented to Professor Roman Jakobson by His Students [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED]. Cambridge: Slavica Publishers, Inc., 1968. First edition. Quarto. 331, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Front free enpaper inscribed and signed by Charles E. Gribble. Previous owner’s name (Herbert H. Paper*) on fly leaf. Frontispiece. Collection of 35 texts on Slavic linguistics published in honor of Professor Roman Jakobson, a Russian linguist and literary theorist. Edges of wrappers slightly sunned. Spine cocked. Wrappers in overall good- to good, interior in good+ to very good condition. g. Paperback.

*Dr. Herbert Harry Paper (1925-2012) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and near Eastern Languages, and the Editor of the Hebrew Union College Annual, HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Dr. Paper taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and joined HUC-JIR as the Dean of Graduate Studies. His specialties were Persian studies, concentrating on the history of the Persian language and on the ancient languages of Iran, and Yiddish literature. (35273) $65