Search Results: Language & Rhetoric from Black Cat Hill Books

New York, NY New Press, 2007. Hardcover First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ: Both book and DJ show only minor indications of use. Book shows light shelfwear; single page dog-eared; binding shows the slightest lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. DJ shows moderate rubbing; price unclipped. Overall, close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 282pp. Hardback with DJ. How is it, the author asks, that every new communications technology, from radio to cable television, is hailed as the one that will make the media more democratic and then is almost immediately subverted (or perhaps perverted) by politics and big business? Chester, a longtime critic of media commercialization, explores how the newest technological breakthroughs, the digital media, could spell further disaster. Do we really want television sets that monitor what we watch? Or an Internet that knows what… Read More

New York, NY PublicAffairs, 2005. Paperback First Edition Thus (2005); First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus (2005); First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: a mild bump at head of backstrip has caused a short tear which has been carefully reglued; else flawless. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Shows a couple of very minor flaws; but remains a structurally sound, tightly bound copy; virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches). 326 pages. Language: English. Weight: 14.4 ounces. Trade Paperback.

New York, NY HarperCollins: Basic Books, 1991. Hardcover First Edition [1991]; First Printing indicated. First Edition [1991]; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use. The Book shows some faint smudging to the fore-edge and to the bottom edge; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. The DJ shows only mild rubbing; the price has not been clipped; mylar-protected. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. ix, 429 pages. Hardback with DJ. 

New York, NY Random House: Vintage, 1989. Paperback First Trade Paperback Edition (1989), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. First published in hardcover in 1978. First Trade Paperback Edition (1989), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Five pages show SPARSE UNDERLINING AND/OR MARGIN LINES in the text. Else, Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows just a hint of rubbing to the panels; aa single pages is dog-eared; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding is slightly cocked, but remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the very mildest wear and several imperfections. Clean. Corners sharp. Not far - in outward appearance - from "As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (8 x 5.25 x… Read More

New York, NY Random House: Vintage, 1966. Paperback First Edition Thus [1966], so stated. First Edition Thus [1966], so stated. Very Good in Wraps: light overall wear; some faint staining to the outside edges; mild rubbing and several tiny, faint soil spots to the wrapper covers; slight spine lean; the binding remains secure; the text is clean. Overall, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 333pp. Mass Market Paperback.

New York, NY Basic Books , 1994. Paperback First Edition Thus [1994]; First Printing indicated by a complete number line. First Edition Thus [1994]; First Printing indicated by a complete number line. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: a faint crease near the lower front corner; a little faint shelf-soiling at the bottom edge of the text pages; the pages have tanned slightly, due to aging; the binding leans very slightly and is a bit concave, but remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.25 x 6.1 x 1.75 inches). xviii, 590 pages. Weight: 1 pound, 8.9 ounces. Trade Paperback. Here is the first full-scale biography of Dwight Macdonald, one of America's most gifted twentieth-century intellectuals - a classic American Dissenter who was at the center of many of the major controversies and… Read More