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THE THING ITSELF
by Richard Todd
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1594488517
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488511
- Seller
-
Sherborn, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Signed by the author Richard Todd, this is a first edition/first printing of his classic reflection on the stuff (pun intended) of modern American life.
In very fine condition. This book has been read once and owned by a single owner since it was purchased new. Binding is perfectly tight with no creased or bent pages. Pages are perfectly white and uniform. The dust jacket is bright with no major creases, however there are minor creases on the corners and along the binding. The item pictured here is the actual item for sale - true for all books and other vintage items offered by Rhuckus.
Details: First edition, hardcover, see images for details. Dustjacket included. Signed by the author on the title page.
Penelope Green's New York Times book review, August 6 2008, opens with "At the Brimfield antiques fair, Richard Todd, an essayist and editor, bought a small box with peeling pink paint and rusty nail holes for $200. Its sellers, who had a booth of 18th- and 19th-century New England furniture, never said anything about its provenance, but the implication was that it was from the same period. But Mr. Todd lost his faith in the box he had found so fetching after a dealer friend pronounced it a cunning fake, a deliberately "antiqued" object, chemically aged and worked over to look old. The box, Mr. Todd concluded, was a liar, and he began to examine why its duplicity mattered to him. If what we value is authenticity, what is the promise of that word, and how do our objects, experiences and relationships deliver on that promise?"
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Extended Description and Notes
Signed by the author Richard Todd, this is a first edition/first printing of his classic reflection on the stuff (pun intended) of modern American life. In very fine condition.The item pictured here is the actual item for sale - true for all books and other vintage items offered by Rhuckus.
Penelope Green's New York Times book review, August 6 2008, opens with "At the Brimfield antiques fair, Richard Todd, an essayist and editor, bought a small box with peeling pink paint and rusty nail holes for $200. Its sellers, who had a booth of 18th- and 19th-century New England furniture, never said anything about its provenance, but the implication was that it was from the same period. But Mr. Todd lost his faith in the box he had found so fetching after a dealer friend pronounced it a cunning fake, a deliberately "antiqued" object, chemically aged and worked over to look old. The box, Mr. Todd concluded, was a liar, and he began to examine why its duplicity mattered to him. If what we value is authenticity, what is the promise of that word, and how do our objects, experiences and relationships deliver on that promise?"
Details: First edition, hardcover, see images for details. Dustjacket included. Signed by the author on the title page.
Synopsis
The celebrated literary memoir and chronicle of one man's search for the elusive gift of authenticity. Troubled by the lack of substance in contemporary life, Richard Todd suspects that much of what we experience is false. In this unique pursuit of the "genuine," Todd examines his search for authenticity in places and objects, in politics and ideas, and in ourselves, and recounts his efforts to understand the desire to be a real person in a real world.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rhuckus
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TTItself11SbA
- Title
- THE THING ITSELF
- Author
- Richard Todd
- Format/Binding
- Very Fine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594488517
- ISBN 13
- 9781594488511
- Publisher
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008-08
- Keywords
- Richard Todd, Brimfield, Authenticity, Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Meaning of Life
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions, First Printings; Signed by Author; Reflections, Philosophy, Ideas;
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