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FUTURE SHOCK
by ALVIN TOFFLER
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good /Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394425863
- ISBN 13
- 9780394425863
- Seller
-
THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NEW YORK: RANDOM HOUSE. 9TH Printing. Hard cover with dust jacket. Tears and splits on DJ edges. Small area of DJ loss above title on DJ spine. Not price clipped. White DJ with a yellow border and black titles. Black boards with gilt titles on board spine(the author's name is in red text). Side edges of pages are rough cut with extra trim on a few page corners, causing a small amount of creasing. Previous owner ex-libris bookplate on front pastedown with name and date of purchase. NB: Has been used as a study text with X marks next to some passages and some pencil underlining of text Location: STC109 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Good. Hardcover. REPRINT.. 1970.
Synopsis
Future Shock is a book written by the sociologist and futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1970. It grew out of an article "The Future as a Way of Life" in Horizon magazine, Summer 1965 issue. The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated. Future shock is also a term for a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, introduced by Toffler in his book of the same name.
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Details
- Bookseller
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016510
- Title
- FUTURE SHOCK
- Author
- ALVIN TOFFLER
- Illustrator
- NEIL FUJITA(JACKET DESIGN)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT.
- ISBN 10
- 0394425863
- ISBN 13
- 9780394425863
- Publisher
- RANDOM HOUSE
- Place of Publication
- NEW YORK
- Date Published
- 1970
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About the Seller
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
Biblio member since 2005
THETFORD, Norfolk
About TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
I am a bookseller of predominantly used(second hand) books. I specialise in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, British and American comics, TV and Film books and magazines. I also sell other varieties of fiction and non-fiction. Including historical novels, poetry, history books, native american history, new age, philosophy, motivational books, classics.
Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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