Basic books harper colophon (7 résultats)

Paper Back. Etat : Good. Good paperback, 1977. Some underlining.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Basic Books / Harper Colophon Books edition 1978. [CN-5048] 4th printing. Bright, clean & tight paperback w/red cover, unread, in FINE+ condition, no markings, no creases in spine. "John Gardner's ON MORAL FICTION is criticism with both eyes open, fearless, illuminating, proving that the concern of the critic is with art, that true art is moral and not trivial, that it and the discussion of it can give pleasure---of a sort that lasts and re-echoes."---Robert Kirsch. "Mr. Gardner has a flair for writing about the big ideas in a charmingly homespun way. He succeeds in reaching for the sun, the stars and the moon without trampling the subtleties underfoot."---New York Times. Pristine copy, quite presentable. …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. 1st Paperback Edition. VG+, Edgewear, crease, browning. 370 pages, including the index. CN 5075. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Good. Trade paperback, thick and sturdy, glossy wrappers with purple-tinted close-up photo of Freud on front wrapper, black spine, light purple back wrapper, 470 pages. Slight wear to tips and spine corners, bottom edges too. Good+.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. 244 pp., vi. '1' in number line. Contents divided into three Parts and 8 Chapters: PART I (1) Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought"; (2) "Found in Translation: On the Social History of the Social Imagination"; (3) " ' From the Native's Point of View ': On the Nature of Anthropological Understanding"; PART II (4) "Common Sense as a Cultural System"; (5) "Art as a Cultural System"; (6) "Centers, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power"; (7) "The Way We Thinbk Now: Toward an Ethnography of Modern Thought"; PART III (8) "Local Knowledge: Fact and Law in Comparative Perspective"; Acknowledgments, p. 235; Index, pp. 237-244. Glossy green wrappers, with repeating pattern superimposed, Title lettering in large white letters on top 1/4 front cover, above Subtitle in thin, small orange letters across upper middle front cover; Author name lettering in thin, larger orange letters across bottom front cover. Essentially As New copy but for light age-toning of text, slightly more so around perimeters: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks; NO rubbing wear. Clean text. Exemplary condition for a paperback published by Harper in the early 1980's, now 40 years-old. Still crisp.…

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Spine modestly sunned and wrappers with a couple of light creases, a couple of passages underlined in ink, very good. Issued as Colophon Books CN 5019.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 244 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is brown with white lettering. Wraps have mild shelving wear along extremities, mild bending wear to front head fore corner and non-archival tape to front tail fore corner. Textblock edges have mild scuffing, age-toning and soiling, light brown staining along head edge; has residue from binding glue and non-archival clear tape along gutter between front cover and half-title page. Inscribed "For Ambassador Robert Newman--with best wishes for a happy and peaceful 1984" by Shlomo Avineri on half-title page. Shelved under Front Desk. 1405807. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…