Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd Pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is an academic work which links archaeology and linguistics to show how Bronze Age Eurasian steppe pastoralists (Yamnaya culture) spread Indo-European languages through domestication of the horse and invention of the wheel. Clean copy. Record # 34515
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, faint foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Lanham, MD, University Press Of America, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Soft cover. B/w illustrations throughout. Super clean copy, binding tight. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean and bright. Previous bookstore tag on back cover. The authors look at literature of the ancient past to examine how the English language has developed.
Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 325 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, small tear at top of spine, patched with tape. Top edge has a touch of tanning. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape. "This volume provides a bridge between investigations of the clinical neurology of speech, language, their related gestures, and cognitive abilities, and studies of the neural substrates of nonhuman primate communication.
Hardcover. Salt lake City, UT, University of Utah Press, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, has agewear, tanning, light foxing (see image). Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout, color frontispiece. Binding good. Spine straight. the first book-length synthesis of the prehistory of far-western North America.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, hardcover. Cover boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. B&W illustrations are all grouped together at the end of the volume. In this book, the author explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. He demonstrates how literature and philosophy have been driven to account self-critically for a "money of the mind" that pervades all discourse, and concludes the book with a discomforting thesis about the cultural and political limits of literature and philosophy in the modern world. Clean copy. Record # 34091
Softcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 4th Pr., 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages, soft cover. Pink covers are bending, with a few minor blemishes. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book ranges over several central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity. Clean copy. Record # 34110
Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard. Also included are a summary of a course given by Foucault at College de France, the transcript of a conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and an interview with Foucault that appeared in the journal Actuel. Clean copy. Record # 34187
Softcover. NY, Routledge, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 452 pages, soft cover. Covers have one small ding on the front, but are still in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book draws together seminal texts from philosophers and historians, presenting the great debate over the narrative character of history from the 1960s onwards. Clean copy. Record # 34195
Hardcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 13th Pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some mild edge wear, with a few closed tears. Green paper covers with inlaid black goose are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a collection of nonsense poems in French which, when pronounced, sound like English nursery rhymes, such as Humpty Dumpty and Jack Sprat. Clean copy. Record # 34335
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 361 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a comprehensive account of and introduction to Chinese phonology. It offers new analyses of several traditional topics, such as the phonemic inventory, allophonic variation, syllable structure, the [r] suffix, tone, and Tone 3 Sandhi. Unnecessary jargon is avoided, and relevant theories are introduced in a nontechnical way. Clean copy. Record # 34345
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages, hardcover. Tan cloth boards have some light staining, but are otherwise in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This collection of original philosophical papers confronts the future of metaphysical thought. Part I of the book scans the contemporary spectrum of metaphysical orientations, from linguistic analysis and process-philosophy, through phenomenology, existentialism, and scholasticism, to neo-Hegelianism and oriental thought. Part II focuses on the relationship between metaphysics and various areas of human concern: language, logic, science, value, society, and religion. Clean copy. Record # 34356
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages, black cloth covers with gilt lettering. Previous owner's stamp on end papers. Record # 402377
Hardcover. Baltimore MD, The Editors, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Eight issues from 1889 bound in one volume, 519 pages, green cloth covers with maroon and gilt spine labels. Ex-library with light stamping, bookplate, label residue at bottom of spines. Otherwise, clean and solid copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Marshall Jones Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 174 pages, small owner's rubber stamp on title page, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Dust jacket with tanning to edges, light shelf wear.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 92 pages, yellow wrappers. Mild soil to covers. Clean internally.
Hardcover. New York, Atria, 1st, October 1, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. SIGNED BY LEDERER ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Clean covers, slight wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Light wear and small tear to lower edge of dust jacket, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453813
Hardcover. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell Univ Pr, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Light wear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge of spine, faint foxing to top edge. Nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, October 15, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 288 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else clean and tight.
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