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The 26 letters


Ogg, Oscar.
New York, N.Y. : Crowell, [1971] 1971

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The 26 letters.


Ogg, Oscar.
New York : Crowell [1961] 1961

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A to Z : how writing changed the world



[Place of publication not identified] : PBS, [2020] 2020

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The alphabet; a key to the history of mankind.


Diringer, David, 1900-1975, author
New York, Funk and Wagnalls [1968] 1968

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The alphabet : an account of the origin and development of letters.


Taylor, Isaac, 1829-1901.
London : K. Paul, Trench, 1883. 1883

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The alphabet : an account of the origin and development of letters.


Taylor, Isaac, 1829-1901.
London : K. Paul, Trench, 1883. 1883

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Ancestral voices : decoding ancient languages


Norman, James, 1912-1983
New York : Four Winds Press, [1975] 1975

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Ancient phoenician alphabet.



Boulder, Colorado : Lakeside Publishing Group, LLC, 2007. 2007

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Ancient writing and its influence.


Ullman, B. L. (Berthold Louis), 1882-1965.
New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1963. 1963

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The birth of writing


Claiborne, Robert.
New York : Time-Life Books, [1974] 1974

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Extinct languages


Friedrich, Johannes, 1893-1972.
New York : Philosophical Library [1957] 1957

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Forgotten scripts; how they were deciphered and their impact on contemporary culture


Gordon, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Herzl), 1908-2001.
New York : Basic Books [1968] 1968

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Fun with hieroglyphs


Roehrig, Catharine, author
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art : [1990] 1990

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The golden thread : the story of writing


Clayton, Ewan, author.
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2013. 2013

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The greatest invention : a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts


Ferrara, Silvia, author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2022] 2022

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The history and uncertain future of handwriting


Trubek, Anne, 1966- author.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2016. 2016

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A history of writing


Gaur, Albertine.
New York : Scribner, 1985. 1985

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A history of writing


Fischer, Steven R.
London : Reaktion Books, 2001. 2001

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Lost languages : the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts


Robinson, Andrew, 1957-
New York : McGraw-Hill, [2002] 2002

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Masters of the word : how media shaped history, from the alphabet to the Internet


Bernstein, William J.
New York, NY : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2013] 2013

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Mayan writing in Mesoamerica


Fine, Jil.
New York : PowerKids Press, 2003. 2003

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The missing ink : the lost art of handwriting


Hensher, Philip.
New York : Faber and Faber, 2012. 2012

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The mysteries of the alphabet : the origins of writing


Ouaknin, Marc-Alain.
New York : Abbeville Press, [1999] 1999

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The origin and progress of letters.


Massey, W. (William), 1691-1764?
London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1763. 1763

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The origin and progress of writing : as well hieroglyphic as elementary. Illustrated by engravings t


Astle, Thomas, 1735-1803.
London : Chatto and Windus, 1876. 1876

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Palimpsest : a history of the written word


Battles, Matthew.
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015] 2015

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Palimpsest : a history of the written word


Battles, Matthew, author, narrator.
[United States] : Tantor Audio : Made available through hoopla, 2015. 2015

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Reading the past; the story of deciphering ancient languages


Cottrell, Leonard.
New York : Crowell-Collier Press [1971] 1971

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Schrift und Herrschaft : Facetten einer komplizierten Beziehung



Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2022] 2022

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Shady characters : the secret life of punctuation, symbols, & other typographical marks


Houston, Keith, 1977-
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013] 2013

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Signs, letters, words : archaeology discovers writing


Hackwell, W. John.
New York : Scribner's, [1987] 1987

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The social and cultural contexts of historic writing practices.



Oxford : Oxbow Books 2021. 2021

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The story of decipherment : from Egyptian hieroglyphs to Maya script


Pope, Maurice.
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1999. 1999

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The story of handwriting; origins and development


Fairbank, Alfred J.
New York : Watson-Guptill [1970] 1970

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The story of writing


Jackson, Donald, 1938-
New York, N.Y. : Taplinger Pub. Co. ; [Janesville, Wis.] : Parker Pen Co., 1981. 1981

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The story of writing


Robinson, Andrew, 1957-
New York : Thames and Hudson, 1999. 1999

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The story of writing


Robinson, Andrew, 1957-
London : Thames & Hudson, 2007. 2007

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The story of writing, from cave art to computer


Cahn, William, 1912-1976.
Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Harvey House [1963] 1963

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The student's guide to Western calligraphy : an illustrated survey


Whalley, Joyce Irene.
Boulder, Colo. : Shambhala ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, [1984] 1984

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Write around the world : the story of how and why we learned to write


French, Vivian.
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1998. 1998

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Writing and civilization : from ancient worlds to modernity.



[United States] : The Great Courses, 2013. 2013

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Writing as material practice : substance, surface and medium



London : Ubiquity Press, 2013. 2013

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Writing in ancient India


Fine, Jil.
New York : PowerKids Press, 2003. 2003

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Writing in ancient Phoenicia


Fine, Jil.
New York : PowerKids Press, 2003. 2003

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The writing systems of the world


Coulmas, Florian.
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : B. Blackwell, 1989. 1989

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Hieroglyphics to hypertext : a timeline of the written word.



Chicago : World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company, [2016] 2016

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The history of the written word


Cunningham, Kevin, 1966-
Chanhassen, Minn. : Child's World, [2005] 2005

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How Writing Began : From Apple to Alphabet


Grandits, John, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Cricket Media : Cricket Media, 2017. 2017

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Let's read a book


Walton, Ruth.
Mankato, Minnesota : Sea-to-Sea, 2013. 2013

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