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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by Michel Foucault
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, cover edges worn with nicks, flap seams chipped
- ISBN 10
- 039443952X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394439525
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 387 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, cover edges worn with nicks, flap seams chipped. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith.
Synopsis
The Order of Things is a book written by Michel Foucault and was published in 1966. The full title of the book is: Les Mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1746
- Title
- The Order of Things
- Author
- Michel Foucault
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Jay J. Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 387 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, cover edges worn with nicks, flap seams chipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039443952X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394439525
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Michel Foucault, Foucault, The Order of Things, Les Mots et les Choses
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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....
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