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FOUCAULT
by J. G. Merquior
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0520060768
- ISBN 13
- 9780520060760
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
US: University of California Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. Beautiful bright red cloth over boards with gilt-debossed particulars to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is foxed; soiling to fore edge. Endpapers are foxed; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Glue residue to top edge of front board; otherwise, boards are clean and bright. Front board slightly bowed and small crack to rear outter hinge, but still holds. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is clean and bright; light foxing to flaps.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64732
- Title
- FOUCAULT
- Author
- J. G. Merquior
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520060768
- ISBN 13
- 9780520060760
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Philosophy
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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