9780809082452 - Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (17 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st American ed. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1st American ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 186p small neat paperback, b&w photograph cover, very good condition, a little wear to cover edges and corners, back cover creased, pages clean and bright, free from names and stamps, many photographs, a very good copy Language: English Weight (g): 300.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 186 pp, b&w photographs. 5.5" x 8.2" brown cloth boards, in b&w Barthes photo DJ. Unclipped DJ with brown (coffee) spots, midway along the bottom foreedge, 1" x 1/2", the largest. inside acetate protector. Binding tight, pages clean, paper well-preserved. Exterior shows only light general use. . Size: Slim Small Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Clean & Unmarked. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First American Edition . First US edition. Wear at top & bottom of spine. Top of spine is sunned. Dust-jacket is heavily chipped, with tears, and in two pieces. Text is clean & binding is secure. 186 pp.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0809082454.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First US edition, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, sunning to the head with a sliver of fading at the tail of the spine, faint tape shadows at the head and tail of the boards, and minor foxing with a penciled "6" to the head of the text block. Overall, a solid, tight, Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has slight wear to the spine ends, edges and corners, sunning to the spine with lighter toning to the covers, and rubbing to the covers with smudging to the back. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 188 pages, previous owner's nicely printed name on front free end page. Small subtle tear on dust jacket, attractive, clean.

Hardcover. First US Edition. Octavo, 186 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine black with beige lettering. Exterior has modest wear including modest sunning, some minor scuffs and few chips to the head/tail edges. Mild age toning to the rear/flaps. Boards show mild wear including slight sunning. Text block has slight wear including minimal age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. Previous owner's name to the front free end paper. Illustrated. First US edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T, ND-T. 1400081. FP New Rockville Stock.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Edge wear and light chipping on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. A thin line of fading on the top edge of the cloth boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some shelf-wear. Small writing on the page. Possibly name of former owner. No other markings.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First American Edition. FIRST American edition, first printing. FINE in FINE dust jacket. Unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 186 pages. Published in 1977. The author's second autobiographical writing. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The second book in the final and greatest work by Roland Barthes, the trilogy that he began with "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" (1977) and concluded with "Camera Lucida: Reflections On Photography" (1980, published posthumously in English in 1981). The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Roland Barthes' "Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes" in a felicitous English translation by the great poet Richard Howard. Profoundly personal confessions about his life. The book is by, of, and most important, FOR the author himself. Since that sounds like the "tell-all" memoir (which it is not), it is important to clarify what Barthes' book is: A revelation, in the coolly detached French/Continental intellectual mode, where every (concrete) detail is intimately described in order to amplify a larger (abstract) idea. It is, to borrow Sartre's inimitable phrase, "the observer in the act of observing (himself) ". "Never before has Barthes spoken so freely, so joyously, precisely when he speaks so strictly, so severely about 'him'. Barthes is first and foremost, a writer, a man for whom the imaginative manipulation of language affords the means of life, the justification of his existence, the articulation of his identity" (Richard Howard). Discretion, elegance, and subtlety set Barthes' book apart from the vulgar memoir, especially of the Anglo-American kind. The more Barthes tells us about himself, the more distant he becomes, to himself and to us, his readers. The more Barthes reveals to us, the more we realize how little we can ever really know him (or ourselves). So why bother to write and to read? Answer: To liberate oneself from the limits of formal writing in order to re-invent writing as a work of the highest achievement. Therein lies his book's and trilogy's greatness and wisdom. An absolute "must-have" title for Roland Barthes collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in multiple subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. The greatest European culture critic of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROLAND BARTHES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0809082454. no.