Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images
by Stafford, Barbara Maria
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0262193698
- ISBN 13
- 9780262193696
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large octavo hardcover, black cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's black pictorial dust-jacket. 259 pages. Notes, Index. Black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Twelve essays "on the stunning implications of a global shift toward vision and visionary modalities." No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Dust-jacket protected by clear acetate wrqaps. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020791
- Title
- Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images
- Author
- Stafford, Barbara Maria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0262193698
- ISBN 13
- 9780262193696
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Vision, Images and Ideas
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