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The Search for the Perfect Language
by Eco, Umberto / Fentress, James - translator
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0631174656
- ISBN 13
- 9780631174653
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Oxford, UK / Cambridge, USA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. xii + 385 pp, Introduction, 17 Chapters with footnotes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. 6.25" x 9.3" black laminate boards, gilt spine letters, in unclipped DJ with acetate protector. Binding tight and square, pages clean and unmarked, paper white. .
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009272
- Title
- The Search for the Perfect Language
- Author
- Eco, Umberto / Fentress, James - translator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0631174656
- ISBN 13
- 9780631174653
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, UK / Cambridge, USA
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- the making of europe series - universal languages - ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHILOSOPHY;
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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