Language Learnability and Language Development: First Edition (Cognitive Science Series, No 7) by Steven Pinker - 1987-04

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Second printing, 1984, paperback, octavo, 435pp., not illustrated. Book VG with sun to spine, edgewear that includes some mild creasing to corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with small crease to last few pages and rear panel at top corner. No DJ.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. Cognitive Science Series. Softcover. pp. xi, 435. 8vo. Black and white charts, tables, illustrations et al. Light edgewear, contents bright, clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good.

Harvard University Press, 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 435 pages. Pinker's first book; lays out his theory of computational language acquisition. The seventh book in Harvard's Cognitive Science Series. Published simultaneously in hardcover. First edition (first printing). A near fine, gently read copy in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. Pinker and Gould publicly disagreed about theories of language development. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance. *** Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay 'A Seahorse for All Races' Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: 'Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the… Read More