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REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS Inscribed by Susan Sontag
by Sontag, Susan
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First British Edition of Susan Sontag's second book on photography, an extended essay on the imagery of war, briefly Inscribed by her on the title-page "to David/ 13/8/03". Her first, On Photography, winning the National Books Critics Circle Award. A pristine copy exploring the use of war photography as a political and cultural tool while posing one of the three questions asked by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas, "How in your opinion are we to prevent war?" Small 8vo. 117 pp. Fine in brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. Size: 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- TBCL The Book Collection Library
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- Title
- REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS Inscribed by Susan Sontag
- Author
- Sontag, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- London: Hamish Hamilton, (2003)
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- First edition, signed, Susan Sontag
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
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