Semantography (Blissymbolics): A Logical Writing for an Illogical World

Sydney: Semantography (Blissymbolics) Publications, 1966.
Second Edition.

23cm x 16cm. 882 pages. Original green cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket, original cardboard carton.

The ideographic writing system of Austro-Hungarian (present-day Ukraine) Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985). Jewish, Bliss conceived his Blissymbols while a refugee in Shanghai and Sydney with the goal of creating an easy-to-learn international auxiliary language, he hoped with this book to mark a new era in human communication and cooperation. He migrated with his wife to Australia in 1946. This copy with the original cardboard carton and bookmark.

Very minor shelf wear. Very minor tanning and foxing to endpapers. Near Fine Condition.

AU$1,200