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"The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity" Hardcover, Dustjacket, First Edition, Signed
"The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity" Hardcover, Dustjacket, First Edition, Signed
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A hardcover, signed, first edition of this classic reflection on the stuff (pun intended) of modern American life. In very fine condition.
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Details: First edition, hardcover, see images for details. Dustjacket included. Signed by the author on the title page.
Penelope Green's New York Times book review, August 6 2008, opens with "At the Brimfield antiques fair, Richard Todd, an essayist and editor, bought a small box with peeling pink paint and rusty nail holes for $200. Its sellers, who had a booth of 18th- and 19th-century New England furniture, never said anything about its provenance, but the implication was that it was from the same period. But Mr. Todd lost his faith in the box he had found so fetching after a dealer friend pronounced it a cunning fake, a deliberately “antiqued” object, chemically aged and worked over to look old. The box, Mr. Todd concluded, was a liar, and he began to examine why its duplicity mattered to him. If what we value is authenticity, what is the promise of that word, and how do our objects, experiences and relationships deliver on that promise?"
Date: 2008
Condition: Very Fine. No noticeable signed of wear on the dustjacket, pages, or binding. One blank page before the title page has a small nick along the edge.
Provenance: Obtained from the original owner, who purchased this book in 1993 from a bookstore.
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