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Hardcover. Condition: Good. [From the library of Richard Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered markings, presumably by Macksey. "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: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Dust jacket is wrapped in mylar. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, 8vo, xxx,267pp, pages browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Good condition in frayed dustwrapper.