DISCIPLINE & PUNISH: THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON
by Foucault, Michel; Sheridan, Alan [translator]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394499425
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499420
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1977. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, ix, 333 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine black with orange, red, and gray lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$10.95." Mild shelf wear. Creasing and light chipping along edges of dust jacket. Rubbing to front and rear covers. Small closed tear to front cover near spine. Foxing to edges of textblock. Red stamp to bottom edge of textblock. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 10. 1374153. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Synopsis
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner’s body to his soul.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1374153
- Title
- DISCIPLINE & PUNISH: THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON
- Author
- Foucault, Michel; Sheridan, Alan [translator]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394499425
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499420
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
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About the Seller
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Rockville, Maryland
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...