At the Edge of History : Speculations on the Transformation of Culture by William I. Thompson - 1971

HarperCollins Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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New York, NY: Harper & Row. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. 1st Edition (Unstated). Hardcover. 180 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Yellowing (light) to pages. No markings on text pages or major defects.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. .

Harper & Row. NF/NF. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060143169 . Flat signed on ffep. ; 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 180 p.; Signed by Author .

Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060143169 . The book has rubbing and toning overall, light foxing to the page edges and boards, light sunning to the top edges, yellowing to endpapers, and is signed by a previous owner on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has rubbing and toning overall and sunning to the spine. Photos on request. International shipping billed at cost. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages .

Harper & Row. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Very Good dust jacket. 1st US edition. Slightly dampstained. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (culture, philosophy, US history)

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/good. blue cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 180 pp, dj scuffed Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Harper & Row, New York, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Grey Boards, Red Cloth Soine). Good Condition/Good. Titles, contents list & preface to front. "At the edge of history, history itself can no longer help us, and only myth remains equal to reality. What we know is less than what we are, and the politics of miracle must be unacceptable to our knowledge to be worthy of our being". William Irwin Thompson was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He was the founder of the Lindisfarne Association, which proposed the study and realization of a new planetary culture. At the Edge of History is a book that begins as a quest for the historical roots of personal identity and ends up demolishing the identity of history itself. What starts out as a search for history finishes as a discovery of myth. William Thompson bases his examinations on those places where the edges of America are most raggedly visible: Los Angeles (where history is a movie set); Big… Read More

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