ISBN: 9780394408095 - the world within the word: essays (23 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages; 1978 Alfred A. Knopf. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original title lettered dust jacket with publisher's $10 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Mild shelf evidence to jacket at spine ends and edges; supercial fading to cloth at spine. Contents bright, clean and unmarked. VG/VG or better.…

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Second Printing. A Second Printing in Fine condition housed in a barely scuffed alike dust-jacket; William H. Gass' The World Within the Word is a linguistic exploration of the way words shape and create our reality. Gass shows how language allows us to explore the world beyond the physical and to create new meanings and realities. He demonstrates how words can be used to create images, symbols, and stories that help us understand ourselves and the world around us.; 8vo; 341 pages.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Acceptable. First Edition. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978.EX-LIBRARY. GOOD- hardcover book in GOOD- dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Can and does have many of the usual flaws, condition issues, card pockets, markings, stamps, thrills and chills that come with ex-Library books. …

Condición: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 341 pages. This is the first collection of essays in seven years by the author of Omensetter's Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Fiction and the Figures of Life. In it, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Clean copy. Record # 374505.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - minor wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) minor staining to cover and page edge - owner's name inside cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condición: Almost Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. Second Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Remainder mark on bottom page edges.

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 341 pages. A collection of essays from the acclaimed writer of the "The Tunnel" and "Habitations of the Word." A near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket with some light wear.

Hard cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very good. Signed first edition in dust jacket. Jacket in excellent condition. Some minor cosmetic separation of front board from spine; binding not affected. Moderate foxing on edges of text block, not visible inside.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. 341 pp. Stated first edition! Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Muriel Nasser (Jacket Design) (ilustrador).

First printing. First edition of this essay collection by "one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds," his follow-up to FICTION & THE FIGURES OF LIFE. 8.25'' x 5.75''. Original brown cloth, stamped in metallic brown to front board and spine. In original unclipped ($10.00) typographic jacket, designed by Muriel Nasser. Green topstain. [12], 341 pages. Jacket with light wear and toning. Some rubbing and faint soil to boards, bit of offsetting to endpapers. Text crisp. Very good plus in very good jacket.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. 341 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on front-free end-paper. Owner was a Professor in the University of Washington English Department for over 50 years.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good - Cash. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. DJ is in a mylar. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Inscribed By Author.

hardcover. Condición: As New.

hardcover. Condición: new.

Hardcover. Condición: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with short tears on edges. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed.

First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass, "the finest prose stylist in America" (Steven Moore, Washington Post). Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative, the extent and cost of political influences on writers, or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make, Gass is always erudite, entertaining, and enlightening.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. INSCRIBED by William Gass on the title page. Fine in a fine dj. Essays.