Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> donjulioblanco2002 wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone knew where an affordable copy of
> > Daniels' "The World's Writing Systems" can be had. Maybe
> > some of you have some secret sources. By "affordable" I mean a
> > lot less than the $170 US it is listed for at the Oxford Press site.
>
> Amazon has used copies as cheap as $158:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/0195079930/all/r
> ef=sr_pb_a/104-9739687-6927961
>
> But I am afraid that this is worth only if you live in the USA; in other
> countries, the shipping fees burns away all the saving.

It has been listed in the "Summer Sale" and "Winter Sale" catalogs of
OUP for years at $75 or $50. Poke around the website looking for things
labeled "Sale"; the search engine apparently doesn't turn up those
entries.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...