A Barthes Reader

New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6". xxxviii, 495pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Price sticker to front cover of jacket. Bound in white paper over boards with spine backed in brown and lettered in black. Previous owner's stamp to… Read more about this item

New York: Dorset Press; Hill & Wang; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. xxxviii, 495 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. A collection of essays by the French semiotician/structuralist. Art historians will find the essays on Buffet, "The Photographic Message" and… Read more about this item

Hill and Wang, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. One chapter with discrete pencil checkmarks in margins, easy to miss at first glance. Some light scuffing to DJ. Collectible copy. Along with only a handful of other writers, Roland Barthes has set the direction of modern cultural and literary criticism. More than two dozen of… Read more about this item

Barnes & Noble, 2009-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust-brown 1/4 cloth, ivory paper-covered boards, lettered in black. Slightly tanned text block edges. Dust jacket Near Fine with minor sunning to spine panel, price-clipped front flap, now in mylar. 1st ptg. thus. xxxviii,495 pp..

Hill and Wang, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nice hardcover first edition in jacket.

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1982-10-21. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!