About this title: In 1969 Marshall McLuhan observed that "today we live invested with an electric information environment that is quite as imperceptible to us as water is to a fish." He was convinced that the new electronic media shape not only the information they convey but also our very consciousness and that in order to actually perceive this a counter environment is needed. To demonstrate his point McLuhan wrote Counterblast. More a manifesto than a book, Counterblast is a typographically explosive compilation of short essays and probes (complex ideas compressed into a few thought-provoking words), all of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Date Published: @1969
Description: Very Good-/Fair hard cover. 12mo, hard cover, 143pp, designed Parker, Harley. edgewear, bites foot front, chips, scrapes, small tears, tanning, crease front flap, dust jacket. spine slightly skewed, light shelfwear cover. small stain topedge at spine, yellowing edges, clean, tight, text. mcluhan. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, New York, NY
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780156226707ISBN:0156226707
Description: Parker, Harley. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Interior unmarked and near fine. Wraps have light shelf wear o/w very good.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Harvest Books HB 186 read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very Good jacket. McClelland & Stewart. Toronto, 1969. First Edition. McLuhan's views on the new electronic media bombarding modern man. Fine in black hardcover in a Good dust jacket, small chips, closed tear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Parker, Harley. Fine in very good dust jacket. Binding straight & tight, corners sharp, pages bright & clean. The dustjacket has slight wear at the corners, in a mylar sleeve. 141 p. 21 cm. Unknown edition (no statement of printing). read more
Edition: 1st Edition?
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Publisher, NY
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780156226707ISBN:0156226707
Description: cOLAGE TYPOGRAPHY ART. VERY GOOD Condition. 5x8" Paper Covers 143pg Purple Spine Titles On Black Paper Covers. 1" Cover Tear Clear Taped...BOOK DESIGNED BY HARLEY PARKER. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Date Published: 1969
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. NF/NF. Designed by Harley Parker. Hardcover, black cloth with purple-silver gilt titles, DJ, 143 pp, color and b&w illustrations, light shelfwear/edgewear, else a clean and tight copy. Protected in a Brodart cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, NY
Date Published: 1969
Description: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Designed by Harley Parker. A later printing. Near fine in a very good (spot of abrasion on rear panel) dust jacket. This copy is from the personal library of automation pioneer John Diebold and bears his ownership stamp on the front and rear free endpapers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Description: [1969]. (Hardcover) Good to very good, no dust jacket. 143pp. Illustrations. Light shelf wear, previous owner's inscription. (Canada, Advertising, Business, Cultural History, Media) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
Description: [1969], 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 143pp. Illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped and has closed tears near spine, previous owner's inscription. Contributors include Harley Parker. (Canada, Advertising, Business, Cultural History, Media) read more
Description: First Edition. Designed by Harley Parker. 8 vo. Unpaginated. Black cloth boards. F/ F. Miniscule amount of scattered wear to DJ. Else, an exceptionally bright, clean and tight copy. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: (The Author), (Toronto)
Date Published: 1954
Description: First edition. Blue stapled wrappers. Quarto. 17pp. A little light age-toning, else near fine. Signed by the author under the title on the front wrapper ("by Marshall McLuhan"). Author's very uncommon second book, self-published, wherein among other things, McLuhan predicts the fall of Communism because it will not embrace a free media. read more
Description: Fair. 0156226707 Books in acceptable condition may show signifigant wear and have lots of writing/underlining. Will be shipped promptly! read more
Description: Fair. 0156226707 Books in acceptable condition may show signifigant wear and have lots of writing/underlining. Will be shipped promptly! read more
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