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Published by St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, 1964
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Charles Measter (Photography Editors) (illustrator). 164 pp. Oversized/Overweight book; extra postage required. Solid binding. An excellent copy with minimal external and internal wear. Clean text. There is no dj.
Published by International Publishing Company, 1902
Seller: gigabooks, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover -- Very Good -- Other than spot of discoloration at bottom corner of several bages, book is clean and tight with only lightest of wear. Black embossed cloth over boards with gilt lettering. 606 pages with illustrations throughout. The Golden Treasury of Useful Information -- Social and Business Forms, Banking and Commerce, The Practical Mechanic, Every Day Law, Farm and Stock Book, Useful Science, Rules of Etiquette, History and Geography, Bilographical Dictionary, Facts for the Curious and Handy Dictionary of Common Things.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1951
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First editions, first printings. Signed by editor-in-chief Otto Neurath in pencil in margin of the inaugural issue's first essay, his "Unified Science as Encylopedic Integration." Neurath's trademark self-caricature is on the facing page; he pictures himself as an angry elephant (he was apparently a large man) plucking flowers. Author and educator Paul A. Schilpp's copies with his name written on the front wrap of the first six numbers.viii, 75; viii, 59; viii, 71; viii, 59; viii, 59; viii, 80; vi, 78; iv, 59 pp. Volume 1 Numbers 1-8. Publisher's blue wraps: no. 8 stapled, the rest perfectbound. Near Fine with light shelf wear and bumped corners. No. 7's wraps lighter than the others, a few tiny stains to wraps. Notice laid into no. 5. A rare signature an important Austrian-born modernist-- the inventor of ISOTYPE, founder of the Museum of Society and Economy, and key figure in the Vienna Circle-- on one of his greatest achievements. Title and author list as follows: 1. Encyclopedia and Unified Science / Otto Neurath, Niels Bohr, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, and Charles Morris 2. Foundations of the Theory of Signs / Charles Morris 3. Foundations of Logic and Mathematics / Rudolf Carnap 4. Linguistic Aspects of Science / Leonard Bloomfield 5. Procedures of Empirical Science / Victor F. Lenzen 6. Principles of the Theory of Probability / Ernest Nagel 7. Foundations of Physics / Philipp Frank 8. Cosmology / E. Finlay-Freundlich.