donjulioblanco2002 wrote:

>
> Two weeks since my initial inquiry, I was pleased to receive an email
> from Oxford announcing the forthcoming Fall Sale, including "The
> World's Writing Systems" for a mere $50. There is a God...
>
> ---AB

Yahoo!

> Here is the entry
>
> Save $120!
> The World's Writing Systems
> Edited by Peter T. Daniels and William Bright
>
> "Without question the most comprehensive work ever published on this
> subject."--Times Literary Supplement. This is the only work in
> English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient
> times to the present, showing how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs,
> and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form.
>
> 1996 968 pp.; 120 b/w illus
>
> 0195079930 $170.00 $50.00
> In Stock, S&H: Standard

Or, if you were considering buying it at amazon, save $150.50.

I'll announce this at sci.lang; does it say there's a starting date for
the sale?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...