Mikhail Bakhtin

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[1],2-398,[2]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $25.00), with chip to lower front corner, and rubbing to spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Explores works and ideas of Bakhtin, with chapters including "The Corsican Twins, 1895-1917", "Freudianism", and "Marxism and the Philosophy of Language". [86151].