The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 8 “The Father Of Modern Linguistics” 6. CHOMSKY, Noam. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $4200. Click for more info First edition of Chomsky’s elusive first book on generative grammar, a very nice copy in the original dust jacket. “The first concerted approach to investigating the human mind through a systematic study of how people produce and understand sentences” ( New York Times ). Owner signature. Book fine, dust jacket with a few short closed tears and tiny chip to rear upper corner, near-fine. A lovely copy of this scarce title.