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TYPOGRAPHY: MIMESIS, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS
by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good -
- ISBN 10
- 0674917006
- ISBN 13
- 9780674917002
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Harvard University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good -. Light grey cloth over boards with black particulars to spine. Pages have some scattered underlining and markings to margins throughout; light foxing to front endpages. Text block is foxed. Boards are clean and bright with bumping to lower edge of front board and top edge of rear board; corners and ends of spine bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is bright with light foxing, creasing, chipping and closed tears to edges, corners and ends of spine; sticker residue to front cover near top edge.
Synopsis
"Mark Sternum is a vanishing breed: the grammarian. His love of order extends into his meticulously constructed life, but love and family, he learns, can't be made to agree as easily as subject and verb. One summer, he suddenly finds himself a not-entirely-unwilling outcast of the impossible world of academic political correctness, and his attention turns to the lost world of the Shakers. Filled with satirical takes on modern manners, masterful evocations of the Shaker line, and the beauty of their core belief that work is a gift, Perfect Agreement is far from a simple gift. Here is where Downing's genius at weaving story lines becomes apparent as he gracefully integrates Mark's story with the sometimes heartbreaking tale of the Shaker Celia...exquisite." -- Newsday
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64733
- Title
- TYPOGRAPHY: MIMESIS, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS
- Author
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0674917006
- ISBN 13
- 9780674917002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Philosophy
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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