The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (First Edition)

New York: Viking, 2007. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter white over black paper-covered boards, with black spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher’s original price of $29.95 on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 499 pages including index, notes, and references. Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker explores how the words we choose reveal the structure of human thought, emotion, and social behavior. Pinker (b. 1954), a Harvard psychologist and linguist, is the author of The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate. This is his seventh book of nonfiction.