Search Results: a century of hero worship by bentley eric

Beacon Press, 1957. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

J.B. Lippincott, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 307 pages. Moderate wear and soiling to the blue covers, the pages are yellowed; a solid book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Inventory No: 205083. .

Tight, clean, mostly unmarked pages (occassionally in the margin there is a dot or line). Square spine. Front end-paper had prior owner's name/date and a differnet owner's very small bookplate. Rear end-paper has three small words in pencil. Gently used copy. No jacket.

J. B. Lippincott, 1944-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Stated First Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to dust jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Scattered underlining and markings. 307 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 21 cm. <br> "A brilliant excursion into the later-day history of man's attempt to create heroes." <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering… Read More

Beacon Press, 1957. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade paperback, light brown background with red and black illustration of Carlyle on front wrapper, praise on back wrapper from Times Literary Supplement, New Yorker, Joseph Wood Krutch in New York Art. 271 pages, lightly browned. Blue ink underlining up to page 8. Near Very Good.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. Softcover. Very Good. Second edition revised. Trade paperback. Modest age-toning on the wrappers, very good or better.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 271pp. Near fine (foxing to page edges) in about near fine dust jacket (age-toning to rear cover; minor wear to extremities; light spine fading; short closed tears). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Beacon Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Philosophy, criticism, Interpretation) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1957. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Used-Acceptable. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 271 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket shows extensive wear and rips along the front and back. Price cut from inside front flap.