Through the Vanishing Point:
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #18521
Condition is Very Good, bound in original grey cloth, with a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Minor wear and rubbing to jacket. Text is unmarked. 8vo, 8 1/2"h x 6"w. Signed and inscribed by the author, Marshall McLuhan, on the front end page. Laid-in vintage photocopy of McLuhan's article "Inside on the Outside, or the Spaced-out American."
A scarce signed first edition of one of McLuhan's most visually adventurous works, written with artist and collaborator Harley Parker and issued as Volume 37 of the distinguished World Perspectives series edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen. Ranging across centuries of painting and poetry and richly illustrated throughout, the book extends McLuhan's central insight—that our senses and our media remake how we perceive space, identity, and the world itself—into the territory of art and aesthetics. Signed copies of any McLuhan title are genuinely uncommon on the market, and here the author's hand turns an already collectible first printing into a true presentation piece: a cornerstone for collectors of media theory, twentieth-century thought, or modern art and poetry.
Price: $875.00