Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to DO with the Other
by Percy, Walker
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374208565
- ISBN 13
- 9780374208561
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. vi + 334 pp, stated 'First printing, 1975'. 15 titled chapters with footnotes, select bibliography. Textblock white edges all around, binding tight and square, pages clean and unmarked, paper well-preserved. Orange cloth covered boards 5.7" x 8.5". White DJ unclipped, $8.95, black spine with edge-wear at top. In acetate protector. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008102
- Title
- The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to DO with the Other
- Author
- Percy, Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374208565
- ISBN 13
- 9780374208561
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- philosophy of language - symbols - messages - essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM; PHILOSOPHY;
Terms of Sale
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. We accept checks and money orders. Orders shipped immediately with credit card payment or held ten days pending arrival of check.
About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
West Side Book Shop, Located in downtown Ann Arbor, was established in 1975 by Jay Platt, a member of the ABAA. West Side Book Shop offers a wide selection of used and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....