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FARTHER SHORE: A NATURAL HISTORY OF PERCEPTION, 1798-1984
by GIFFORD, DON
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0871133350
- ISBN 13
- 9780871133359
- Seller
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Durham, California, United States
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About This Item
Atlantic Monthly Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1990. first edition,1p; first printing". Hardcover. 8.3 X 5.5 X 1.1 inches. GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(S19.95) DUST JACKET...EX LIBRARY COPY , SOLIDLY BOUND, SEVERAL LIBRARY NAME STAMPS. POCKET REMOVAL SCAR EP..Nice DJ pasted to inner covers..under plastic vinyl protector.. ; Gold titles on red cloth spine strip. Grey hard covers...White dust jacket shows man at table with vision perspective device..Inner dj flap has 1x1" photo of author & biog. ; 257 pages; time-frame extends from the publication in 1798 of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads to 1984 , the anti-utopia of George Orwell's novel. How the telephone creates the illusion of private, intimate conversation; how the spreading megalopolis negates a sense of place; the mass carnage of our century--these are some of the precepts with which he wrestles. .
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- Seller
- Wonderful Books by Mail (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 133969
- Title
- FARTHER SHORE: A NATURAL HISTORY OF PERCEPTION, 1798-1984
- Author
- GIFFORD, DON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition,1p; first printing"
- ISBN 10
- 0871133350
- ISBN 13
- 9780871133359
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Sense Awareness, Perception, HISTORY, Vision Eye, Hearing ears sense perception, Brain Function medical
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