Burnside Rare Books

Syntactic Structures

Chomsky, Noam

The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957.

First edition, first issue. 116 pp. Bound in publisher's original blue wraps, binder's error with introduction bound before preface. Very Good with slightly sunned wraps, bottom corner bumped, a single page has marginal notes in ink from former owner headlined "Caveat Lector."

Chomsky's first published book, which changed the field of linguistics immensely. It's best known for the meaningless and yet grammatically coherent sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." Item #140943718

Price: $1,500.00