Illness As Metaphor

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Signed by Susan Sontag on a bookplate, which is laid into the book (not mounted). First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Subtle fading to extremities, else fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A pivotal work wherein Sontag dissects the language of illness. She argues that it's use as metaphor is detrimental to our understanding of illness. A brilliant work by one of America's best essayists. Some discolouration on rear cover half up to crown next to… Ler mais sobre este item

Farrar, Straus And Giroux. New York. 1978. Near fine brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Similar near-fine unclipped ($5.95) jacket with minor shelf wear to edge protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in year of publication by the yr. 2000 National Book Award winner for Fiction. Metaphor, the symbolic representation of something else; is that how society views cancer… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover first edition, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. 88 pages. Essay by the author of 'On Photography', among many other non-fiction and fiction works, on the uses of illness as a metaphor in the arts. Dark brown cloth covered boards with the title and author imprinted on the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Small stamp on bottom page edges, owner's name neatly penned on front fly, else near fine in fine dustwrapper.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First US edition of Susan Sontag's reflections on the harm caused by metaphoric thinking of illnesses such as cancer and tuberculosis. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original brown cloth boards. Original unclipped ($5.95) black-and-white pictorial dust jacket. 88 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, a touch… Ler mais sobre este item

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket, chip on front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1978. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. VG-. used hardcover in a dust jacket. Stated first; copywrite 1978. Jacket is protected in clear mylar covering. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any serious tears. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the… Ler mais sobre este item

NY:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0374174431 . Stated first printing. Previous owner's blind-stamp on half-title page, else very good in a very good (age toning about the edges) dust jacket. .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374174431 . Near Fine in a Very Good++ dust jacket. Price on front flap inked out. Stated First Printing. .

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1978. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 87 pages. An extended essay on thinking about illness. A very good copy in cloth boards with some offsetting to the boards and in a very good plus dust jacket with a few small edge tears and other minor wear.

New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1978 New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1978 87 pp plus final unnumbered page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. with tan textured paper end papers. Top page edges are lightly foxed. Brown cloth boards are clean and square with barely noticeable sunning to top edge. DJ is VG+, clean, intact with two short closed tears.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Picador; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. 183 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as 'one of the most liberating books of its time.' A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially… Ler mais sobre este item

Vintage, 1979. paperback. Used: Very Good. 6x4x0. Used Very Good stiff glossy paper wraps; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight, contents clean and unmarked. Hole punch in upper right front cover. Pages browned from age. 85 pages. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.

U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988 Book. Good. Soft cover. Good with foxing to edges and initial page - o/w clean & tight.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [, 1978. First printing (First edition). Hardcover. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author "with immediate sympathy and warmest regards." ]. 87p.

Vintage, 1979-05-12. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pp. 88. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge foxing. Crisp pages and binding. In the illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact on front panel. First printing. Book design by Doris Huth; jacket design by Muriel Nasser.… Ler mais sobre este item

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. First Printing, Clean Tight volume88 prose pages, in illustrated dust jacket w/rub to top edge.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Vintage, 1979-05-12. Paperback. Good. Cover is creased and edgeworn. Small rip at fore-edge of front cover. Pages quite tanned. Text free from marks, highlighting and dogears. Spine uncreased.A solid copy showing its age.