The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation
by Barthes, Roland
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0809080753
- ISBN 13
- 9780809080755
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. 23 late essays by the French critic & semiotician, only five of which have been previously collected in English. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first [American] edition (first printing. Near fine, with only light wear to book; jacket shows some tanning & light spine fading, $22.95 price intact. No names or marks, text clean; viii, 312 pages. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0138
- Title
- The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation
- Author
- Barthes, Roland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0809080753
- ISBN 13
- 9780809080755
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Literature, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Language, Aesthetics, Modernism, Semiotics
- Size
- Small Octavo
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Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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