Serendipities: Language and Lunacy [Signed]

New York: Harvest / Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1999. Fifth Printing of the Harvest paperback edition. Octavo (20.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; xii,129,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Light wear, tiny crease to upper left corner of rear wrapper and a few terminal leaves; Near Fine. Collection of five essays illuminating "the ways in which people have projected the familiar onto the strange throughout history to make sense of the world" (from rear wrapper). Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1998. 86154. (Inventory #: 86154)