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Hardcover. Condition: Good. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. Edges rubbed. xxv, 656 p., ill., 24 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, no dust wrapper, large octavo, blue cloth, gilt arms on front, title horizontally in gilt on spine, some sunning to all faces, book plate Lawrence Edward Steele, top edge gilt, slight foxing to outer leaves and edges, internally generally tight, bright and clean, good condition. Illustrated, xxv plus 656 pages some pages uncut/opened. Very scarce. Sections include Classics and Ancient Archaeology; Medieval Literature and History; Anthropology and Comparative Religion. In all 48 lectures. [****HEAVY ITEM - MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE****] [QP]. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 720 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.73 inches. In Stock.