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Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine, some toning near edges, light soiling, else clean./Very Good unclipped jacket, some edgewear throughout, light sunning to spine, general soiling and rubbing
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About This Item
New York: Hill & Wang, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover duodecimo, blue cloth with silver lettering stamped to spine, publisher's blue topstain, [xxi] 88 pp. Near Fine, some toning near edges, light soiling, else clean./Very Good unclipped jacket, some edgewear throughout, light sunning to spine, general soiling and rubbing. First American Edition (March 1968) of Roland Barthes' classic essential introduction to semiology, first published in French fifteen years prior to this English translation. Preface by Susan Sontag.
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- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 695
- Title
- Writing Degree Zero
- Author
- Roland Barthes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover duodecimo, blue cloth with silver lettering stamped to spine, publisher's blue topstain, [xxi] 88 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine, some toning near edges, light soiling, else clean.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good unclipped jacket, some edgewear throughout, light sunning to spine, general soiling and rubbing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hill & Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Semiotics, Semiology, Sontag
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