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Illness As Metaphor [1st UK]
$90
By Susan Sontag
Brilliant examination of the metaphoric use of illness in our Literature & thought
In stock
Description
- Jacket illustration of Hercules Combating The Hydra
- Originally presented at NYU for the James Lectures
- First UK Edition [Allen Lane, London, 1979]; [viii], 88 pages; green cloth, gold titling to spine, edges rubbed, faint blotchiness to endpaers, an excellent copy; in the very good illustrated dustjacket, price-clipped, foxing to inner flaps, rubbed on edges
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