Seamless Web Language Thinking Creature Knowledge by Burnshaw Stanley (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Former library book. Binding is moderately loose. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Cover. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover, no dustjacket, previous owner's signature.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No Dustjacket. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 320 pages.

xiv+320pp. 8vo. Original cloth in lightly worn dustwrapper. A very good copy.

1st edition. 8vo. xiii + 320pp. Original black cloth, d/w. rubbed to edges. US$10.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1970. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xv,320pp. Slightly bumped, d/j little worn and spotted. A fair copy. 0713901068/0.6uk.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, As Issued. A critic maps how language, art, and thought connect-before publication. An advance issue of Stanley Burnshaw's interdisciplinary work exploring the relationship between language, perception, and artistic experience. Issued prior to publication, this copy reflects the publisher's early distribution to reviewers and intellectual circles, offering insight into the book's original reception context. Burnshaw, a poet, editor, and critic associated with mid-century literary and intellectual movements, presents a synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics. Drawing on figures such as T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, and Paul Valéry (as reflected in the acknowledgments), the work captures a moment when criticism sought to unify artistic and cognitive experience into a single conceptual framework. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Softcover advance issue; printed wrappers. Standard trade format. Advance issue marked on title page: "This advance copy for ______." CONDITION: Bindings are tight and secure. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate handling wear typical of advance issues; no ownership marking to the recipient line. AUTHOR NOTE - Stanley Burnshaw (1906-2005) was an American poet, critic, and publisher closely associated with the mid-20th-century literary and intellectual scene. A co-founder of New Directions in its early years and later an editor at Henry Holt, Burnshaw moved fluidly between poetry, criticism, and publishing. His work often explores the relationship between language, perception, and artistic experience, placing him within the broader modernist and postwar critical tradition. SUBJECTS: Stanley Burnshaw, Literary Criticism, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics, Modern Poetry Criticism, 20th Century Thought, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Aesthetics. Advance Copy (Uncorrected / Pre-Publication Issue).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good. First British Edition. 320 pages. Unclipped dustjacket has some colour lightening to spine, light creasing/small nicks to top edges, small chips to spine-ends and top corners. Hardback binding has clean black boards, ink name/address to flyelaf, smells slightly MUSTY. Wear/small creases to spine-ends, small reading crease to spine, light wear to boards' corners. Page-edges a bit darkened o/w pages clean and sound.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A 1/4 inch slight tear to front, normal wear. Scarce in this condition for a book this size.