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1992225922Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1992. Paperback. 272p. footnotes tables some highlighting otherwise good German-language edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Originally published in French. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag paperback books
198230301Saratoga Springs NY: Salmagundi 1982. Paperback. 426p. very good literary journal in trade paperback format slightly-worn wraps. Salmagundi paperback books
1595581340Chomsky Noam. Chomsky Foucault Debate . Foucault Michel. NP: NP ND. Book condition: . unknown books
1976WRCLIT73646New York: Harper & Row 1976. Stiff pictorial wrappers. A well-read copy. First Harper Colophon printing of A.M. Sherican Smith's translation. Poet / translator / publisher Cid Corman's copy with his 1977 ownership inscription and extensive frequently substantial annotations throughout. Harper & Row unknown books
1869133625Paris France: L'Académie des Sciences 1869. unbound edges uncut in later portfolio. Science. 4to. unbound edges uncut in later portfolio. 6 pages. Text in French. Extracted from Comptes rendus des séances de L'Académie des Sciences LXIX December 13 1869. The siderostat is a revolving flat mirror designed to enhance telescopic viewing. Foxing. Unopened. L'Académie des Sciences unknown books
185408799Paris: Victor Masson 1854. Quarter Leather. Very Good. Octavo. Offered is a very good entire Vol. 41 of Annales de Chimie et de Physique in nice quarter brown leather binding and marbled paper covered boards with raised bands spine gilt lettering on black leather spine label. Light rubbing cover edges scattered foxing. Complete with the foldout plate demonstrating Foucault's apparatus diagramatically reproduced in DSB VOl. 5 p. 85. A Comparison of this velocity in air and in water would be clear experimental test between the wave and particle theories of light since the former required light to travel faster in air; the later; in water.Fizeau returned to the rotating mirror to compare light's velocity in rare and dense media but here he was beaten by Foucault who announced on 30 April 1850 that "light travels faster in air than in water" Foucault's first experiment carried out in 1850 and written up in full in his doctorial thesis of 1853; was purely comparative; he announced no numerical values until 1862. DSB Vol. 5 pp. 85-85. <br/><br/> Victor Masson hardcover books
1855287442Paris 1855. unbound. very good. Uncommon A.L.S. "L. Foucault" 8vo. 1 page Paris February 24th 1855 to Monsieur Ami Gilbert Govi in French translated: "Here is my take on the size one has to give the drawing; you could make it even smaller but certainly not any larger. As you know the engraver is more than willing to engrave on your marks so I rely on your extreme kindness. All yours and leaving things in your camp I remain." Two very minor striations at the top left-hand margin otherwise in fine condition.<br/><br/> French physicist who invented the Foucault Pendulum made an early measurement of the speed of light discovered eddy currents and is credited with naming the gyroscope.<br/><br/> unknown books
193115638Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1931. First printing. Hardcover. Very good/good. Large 8vo. Original quarter red cloth with printed paper spine label over light blue cloth board. Very good in good jacket. DJ toned with some rubbing. Some heavy loss to fold at rear flap. Chipping here and there overall. Presents well. Unclipped. Book clean and sound throughout. 338pp. <br/><br/>True story of a Frenchwoman whose Picardy home often served as retreat for soldiers in the midst of WWI. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
19721342714New York: Pantheon Books 1972. Hardcover. Octavo; G-/G- Hardcover w/ Dustjacket; Blue and Faded Red spine with White text; Dustjacket has some edgewear some shelfwear small open tears along spine and spine edges small open and closed tears along edges of both covers large open tear at top corner of front cover; Boards strong some edgewear some shelfwear black marks on front cover; Textblock has marking in pen on some pages previous owner's name in pen on front endpaper brown mark along fore edge; 245 pp. 1342714. FP New Rockville Stock. Pantheon Books hardcover books
198666796Garden City:: Doubleday. Good in Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0385278543 . Translated from the French by Charles Ruas. Introduction by John Ashbery. First edition thus. Remainder spray on bottom edge else good in a good faint damp marks along the spine dust jacket. . Doubleday, hardcover books
1995WELLER9780679752554Vintage Books 1995. New. New book. Vintage Books unknown books
198241566Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1982. Paperback. Very good. 287pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> University of Nebraska Press paperback books
1980024212Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1980. 2d Printing. Edited with an introduction by Donald F. Bouchard. Translated from the French by Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. 240p. dj. Cornell University Press unknown books
1966WRCLIT76672Paris: NRF / Gallimard 1966. 4004pp. plus laid-in detached folding plate. Large thick octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Large bookplate on front free endsheet causing some rippling to adjacent leaves smudge on fore-edge spine a bit creased and hand-soiled from having been read but a good copy. First edition first impression with colophon dated '21 mars 1966'. One of Foucault's most influential works published in the "Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines." It was translated into English as THE ORDER OF THINGS and has exerted considerable influence in some quarters of contemporary thought. NRF / Gallimard unknown books
1965854371965. FOUCAULT Michel transl. by Richard HOWARD. MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION: A HISTORY OF INSANITY IN THE AGE OF REASON. New York: Pantheon Books/Random House 1965. First printing first American edition. xiv 299 pp. Red cloth stamped in brown and gilt. Faint pale spotting to cloth; owner's ink gift inscription to front flyleaf. Interior clean and tight. In a very good red/color pictorial dust jacket nicked at edges slightly darkened. unknown books
198744749Berkeley: University of California Press 1987. Paperback. Very good. 90pp. Very good in publisher's wraps. <br/><br/> University of California Press paperback books
1964WRCLIT50431Paris 1964. Whole number 17. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Very good or better. Edited by Jean-Louis Baudry et al. Much of this issue is devoted to a "Débat sur le roman" moderated by Michel Foucault. unknown books
1997249728New York: The New Press 1997. Hardcover. xlv 486p. series preface introduction notes on terms & translations chapter notes index ner-fine first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright white unclipped dj. Second of three volumes. The New Press hardcover books
1997249727New York: The New Press 1997. Hardcover. xlv 334p. series preface introduction notes on terms & translations chapter notes index ner-fine first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright white unclipped dj. First of three volumes. The New Press hardcover books
1994248154New York: Pantheon 1994. Hardcover. xxiii 599p. textual note introduction notes bibliography works consulted index near-fine first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. Pantheon hardcover books
199355978New York: Simon & Schuster 1993. Hardcover. 491p. preface postscript notes index near-fine first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped bright dj. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
199371355NY:: Barnes & Noble Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 1566191092 . Translated from the French by A. M. Sheridan Smith. A reprint edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Barnes & Noble Books, hardcover books
199243251London & NY: Routledge 1992. First trade paperback printing. 259 pp w/index. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. London & NY: Routledge paperback books
1982WRCLIT32608Chicago: U. of Chicago Press 1982. Cloth. First edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a thumbnail-size chip from the bottom of the upper panel. U. of Chicago Press hardcover books
1978140938886New York: Pantheon Books 1978. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. vi 168 1 pp. Crimson cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with former owner's name written on front free endpaper citation written on rear endpaper contents otherwise unmarked. In Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. The first volume in Foucault's most acclaimed work published in three volumes with a fourth volume uncompleted at the time of his death. Pantheon Books unknown books
