Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap: A Wide-Awake Enquiry into the Human Nature of Time by Campbell, Jeremy - 1986

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Good. introduction by the author, notes, and index. 1/4 gray coloured cloth covered backstrip with silver coloured titles. 3/4 pale purple coloured boards.Illustrated dustwrapper with red and green coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip."Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap: A Wide-Awake Inquiry into the Human Nature of Time so is how it is not time that is complex, but the array of human strategies and mechanisms, biological clocks and mental constructs, by means of which human beings take time seriously." -- from the rear fold over panel. Rubbing to the book corners and lower book edges. Some marks to the front panel with age toning of the textblock edges and pages.Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Fading to the backstrip with rubbing of the dustwrapper panels. A few tears to the top dustwrapper edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 11-432 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Time; ISBN: 0671475479. ISBN/EAN: 9780671475475. Inventory No: 0117676. . 9780671475475