Jacques Derrida. 
 
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. University of Chicago Press: 1978. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First printing. Some discoloration to the very slightly bowed boards. Previous owner's bookplate and signature to the first free end paper. A few pages within the text block have been dog-eared. Pages 85 to 100 have some underlining, and there is marginalia on page 292. Unclipped jacket is a little rubbed and edge worn. Book is good, jacket is very good. 
 
"In emerging from itself, logos as hearing oneself speak constitutes itself as the history of reason through the detour of writing. Thus it differs from itself in order to reappropriate itself."