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ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Books, San Francisco] Softcover Second US paperback edition. Published in paperback by Ballantine in 1969. First published in the US by Walker in 1962 under the title Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo. Translated by Mary Dalwood. Originally published in France in 1957 under the title L'Erotisme. The front cover has a heavy vertical crease down its length and a one inch crease to the bottom right corner. The spine has a small patch of surface damage at the centre and a small mark near the bottom. The back cover has a three inch crease to the bottom left corner and the covers have surface and edge wear. Quite heavy brown spotting to the page edges. The first page has a name and date in red pen at the top corner and there is creasing to the corners at the front and back of the book and in a few places through the book. First printing of this edition. [Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1986]
City Lights Books 1987 Trade paperback Pages include notes, underlining, or highlighting. May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. Rubbing to the wraps. K14 . Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition.. Date: 1986. 1986. City Lights Books ISBN 0872861902 9780872861909 [US]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA] Softcover First Edition Rubbing to the wraps. K14 [Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
City Lights Books 1987 Trade paperback Fair This is a USED book, it is subject to external and interior wear including, underlining, highlighting, annotations, water damage, minor scuffs and tears. This is a donated book accepted as is. Stickers and sticker residue on the cover should be expected, as well as spine wear from use. There are NO codes or disc(s) included. All items ship Monday-Friday within 2-3 business days. Thank you for supporting Goodwill of OC.
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers] Softcover Pages include notes, underlining, or highlighting. May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwills nonprofit mission! [Seattle, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
San Francisco, CA City Lights Publishers 1986 First Edition Thus Paperback Very Good- 0872861902. Minor smudge and wear to cover. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; B&W Illustrations & Photographs; 276 pages.
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers] Softcover City Lights, 1986. First City Lights Edition. Softcover; 276 pages, plus bibliography and index. No marks or writing to book. Covers glossy and clean. As new. [Westlake, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers] Softcover Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 0.75 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 0.75 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers. Very Good-. Date: 1986. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 0872861902 . Minor smudge and wear to cover. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; B&W Illustrations & Photographs; 276 pages . 1986. City Lights Publishers ISBN 0872861902 9780872861909 [US]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, CA] Softcover First Edition Minor smudge and wear to cover. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; B&W Illustrations & Photographs; 276 pages [Highland, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers 1987-02-12, San Francisco] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1987]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers] Softcover Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality-Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective.Bataille challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade,from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey. The subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire prior to and extending beyond the realm of sexuality, he argues that eroticism is "a psychological quest not alien to death."" . . . one of the most original and unsettling of those thinkers who, in the wake of Sade and Nietzsche, have confronted the possibility of thought in a world that has lost its myth of transcendence."-Peter Brooks, New York Times Book Review"Bataille is one of the most important writers of the century."-Michel Foucault"[An] urgent, thrusting book about love, sex, death and spirituality by Georges Bataille."-Mark Price, Philosophy Now"A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to ...
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA] Softcover ( Wrappers and Text is clean, neat and tight) [Winston-Salem, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights] Softcover Paperback: ‎280 pages. Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensualityGeorges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. Bataille challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey. The subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war, investigating desire prior to and extending beyond the realm of sexuality. [Westlake, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers 1987-02-12, San Francisco] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1987]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Books] Softcover First City Lights edition, 1986. Translated by Mary Dalwood. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition. "Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality---Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. Bataille challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Theresa to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey; and the subjects he covers include prostitution, mystical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire prior to and extending beyond the realm of sexuality, he argues that eroticism is "a psychological quest not alien to death."[]"---one of the most original and unsettling of those thinkers who, in the wake of Sade and Nietzsche, have confronted the possibility of thought in a world that has lost its myth of transcendence."---Peter Brooks, New York Times Book Review. "Bataille is one of the most important writers of the century."---Michel Foucault. Near Fine paperback has back-corner-spine tiny tears, slight shelfwear, while rest of book has brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & no age toning on pages. [Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers] Softcover signs of little wear on the cover. [Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Books] Softcover Special order direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 0872861902, ISBN13: 9780872861909, [publisher: City Lights Publishers] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
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