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The stature of man
by Wilson, Colin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Dearborn, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 1959-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Hardcover, First Edition-First Printing 1959, Houghton Mifflin Company, 171 pages. Very Good, in Good+ Dust Jacket. Black boards with white titles, just a touch of shelf/edge wear- top right corner lightly bumped. Red topstain to text block. Prior owner name in ink on ffep. Interior pages are tight and unmarred except for a small darkened smudge near the upper outer edge of the text block which extends onto the outer margin of pages 110 and 112 -the text is not affected. DJ is unclipped, with moderate rubbing and soiling and a few tiny chips and closed tears along the folds and edges - now in mylar. In a brilliant though controversial analysis of modern literature/culture Wilson examines the disappearance of the hero and his replacement by a character without faith in either himself or in society. He then persuasively argues against the automatic assumption that belief in oneself is a form of self-delusion. An offering for anyone who still believes or wants to believe in the dignity and potential of human beings. LOC SSS-17
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 190131006
- Title
- The stature of man
- Author
- Wilson, Colin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Date Published
- 1959-01-01
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About the Seller
Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
Biblio member since 2007
Dearborn, Michigan
About Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
We are an online, phone and snail mail bookseller.Our books don't need batteries or a license to read. Selling books on-line since 2004. CABS graduate in 2009. Member MWABA since 2013. Excellent customer service, quick shipping, and an assortment of great books. The majority of our inventory is non-fiction general stock with an emphasis on transportation (air, rail, auto), exploration, and military history. We also have hundreds of Vintage Paperbacks that are for the most part not listed online. Eyebrowse Books is always looking for and buying good quality books. We may be reached via e-mail, phone and snail mail. I sincerely appreciate all our customers, new as well as returning ones, and strive every day to present them the most interesting books I can find.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- LOC
- Library of Congress
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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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