Knopf, 1981. First American Edition. hardcover. Aries, Philippe : The Hour of Our Death. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First American edition/printing. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.75"/24.8cm h. Bound in publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Glossy color pictorial dust jacket. Deckle fore-edge. Plain white endpapers. [2] pp leading unaccounted for in pagination; [i-v], vi, [vii], viii-ix, [x-xi], xii, [xiii], xiv-xvii, [xviii] prelim material; [1-5], 6-651, [652] blank. Contents; list of illus; author's foreword and preface; Book One (Sleepers of Stone: The Tame Death; Death of the Self); Book Two (Death Untamed: Remote and Imminent Death; Death of the Other; Invisible Death); Conclusion. Notes, index. Bound in are 12 pp b&w images, unpaginated. Condition notes: edges tanned with scattered soiling/staining; boards moderately worn, corners bumped. Unclipped dust jacket tanned and worn with numerous small chips and tears. Interior tanned but unmarked. We personally inspect every book we offer.

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Philippe Ariès was an important French medievalist and historian of the family and childhood. He is also the author of Centuries of Childhood , which was translated into English in 1962. He died in Paris in 1984.

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Bookseller: Furrowed Brow Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 240126003
Title: The Hour of Our Death
Author: Aries, Philippe
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American Edition
ISBN 10: 0394410742
ISBN 13: 9780394410746
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1981
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