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Previous author's name inscribed in front end pages. Some annotations throughout. Book is in good condition with typical wear and fading.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Very Fine. (F.11.70[MC]) Thicker, heavy softcover, glossy and colorfully designed wrappers with a primitive sculpture illustrated on front, photo of author at bottom back left, 431 pages including a glossy photo section. Very light wear at spine bottom edge. Near Very Fine.

Ex-library book. Transparent tape on the spine of black cover. No dust jacket. Otherwise good. Clean text.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Hardcover; 8vo; 431 pages. No dj. Backed in black cloth with gilt on spine, creme-coloured paper on boards. Bumped corners, rubbed head/tail. Off-white but bright and clean interior. VG-/--. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket.

Routledge & Kegan Pau. TEXT UNMARKED. Very Good hardcover without dustjacket. Published in London by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st Edition, 1953, with 431 pages + 8 full-page photographic plates on glossy paper, large octavo (8vo). Not a library book. Heavy, well-made book, bound in sturdy scarlet cloth-covered boards, bright embossed gilt lettering on spine. Book has no major flaws, but does show occasional minor signs of use and age: i.e., there is light wear to the cloth binding along the bottom board edges; just a touch of wear to cloth right at the corner tips; neat, brief previous owner's inscription on blank front page; pages softly, but only lightly darkened from age. No other notable flaws. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, still firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, missing, torn, folded, or wrinkled. Hinges sound and undamaged, corners have not been bumped. All pages are clean and stain-free, all text is sharp and legible, and there is no… Read More

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. Pages clean and bright, some spotting on closed edges, inscription on front endpaper, boards tidy, some rubbing to dust jacket and sunning to d-j spine.. Fifth Impression. Hard. Very Good/Good. 4to.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, 1963. Pages bright, light pencilled annotation throughout, spotting on closed edges, light foxing on endpapers, inscription on front endpaper, boards firm, chipping and rubbing to dust jacket.. Third Impression. Hard. Good/Good. 8vo.

Scribners, 1977-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1953. First edition, first printing, of the academic's primary contribution to the philosophy of art, developing the theories of her Philosophy in a New Key (1942). Langer interprets artworks as reflecting particular forms of feeling which ordinary language is unable to convey. Suzanne K. Langer (1895-1985) studied under Alfred North Whitehead at Radcliffe College, and she then attended Harvard and the University of Vienna, where her influences included Wittgenstein and Ernst Cassirer, to whom she dedicates Feeling and Form. "By any measure of academic achievement, hers was an exceptionally distinguished career in philosophy, with regard to both teaching and scholarship. Yet, surprisingly, her voluminous written work, pioneering and evocative in many respects, has been fairly neglected in professional circles … It must also be recalled that Langer was a woman, indeed, a divorced woman, working in a male-dominated field during her time. By all accounts, she was… Read More