Black Max Editor (28 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light shelf wear at board edges, faint foxing at text block edges. DJ in mylar cover; mild rubbing, one small (1/2" + -) tear at lower right front corner.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Acceptable paperback copy, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Some deep creases to spine; binding remains intact. Text very good. Light shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps. First Softcover Edition. Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Wraps are scuffed from shelf wear.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. some shelfwear but still NICE! Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. DJ has tears, missing pieces, and slight stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. no marks or names-clean covers and text-tight binding-red boards with gold lettering on spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 267 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction by Dana Stabenow; Smart Aleck by Loren D. Estleman; Better Lucky Than Good by Jeanne C. Stein; The High Life: A Heartland Homicide Story by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens; Rust by N. J. Ayres; I/M Print: A Tess Cassidy Short Story by Jeremiah Healy; A Trace of a Trace by Brendan DuBois; Five Sorrowful Mysteries by Julie Hyzy; Mitt's Murder by John Lutz; The Retired Arsonist by Edward D. Hoch; Patriotic Gestures by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Articulation of Murder by Michael A. Black; Occam's Razor by Maynard F. Thomson; and On the Evidence: A Liam Campbell Short Story by Dana Stabenow. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 310 pp. '1' in number line. Following a "Prescript" by David Hume, "Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Human Understanding" and a "Postscript" by Wilfrid Sellars, "Are There Non-Deductive Logics?", Contents divided into 15 Essays in 2 Parts: Part I. PROBABILITY AND INDUCTION (1) Hans Reichenbach, "Frequentist Theory of Probability and Induction"; (2) Rudolf Carnap, "On Inductive Logic"; (3) Frank P. Ramsey, :Degrees of Belief"; (4) Richard C. Jeffrey, "Probable Knowledge"; (5) Rudolf Carnap, "The Aim of Inductive Logic"; (6) Bas C. van Fraassen, "Probabilities and the Problem of Individuation"; (7) Wesley C. Salmon, "Inquiries into the Foundations of Science"; Part II. PROBLEMS AND PARADOXES OF INDUCTIVE LOGIC (8) Carl G. Hempel, "Recent Problems of Induction; (9) Herbert Feigl, "De Principiis Non Disputandum [On the Meaning and the Limits of Justificatiion]"; (10) Max Black, "Self-Supporting Inductive Arguments"; (11) Wesley C. Salmon, "On Vindicating Induction"; (12) Carl G. Hempel, "Studies in the Logic of Confirmation"; (13) J.L. Mackie, "The Paradox of Confirmation"; (14) Hugues Leblanc, "That Positive Instances Are No Help"; (15) Bernard R. Grunstra, "The Plausibility of the Entrenchment Concept"; Bibliography, pp. 308-310. Maroon Faux Leather with brilliant gilt lettering on front cover and spine. NO JACKET. Rubbing wear (surface maroon, leaving pinkish tinge) at book and spine corners micro-tip of grey board exposed at lower left corner, rear cover; tiny nick near mid-point of left spine edge and at 1" up from lower right front cover corner on right front cover edge; a small bit of intermittent rubbing on each lower edge; apparent page-jam on p. 81/82, echoing on pp.83/84, 85/86 (long flat but faintly detectable, as well as a soft crease of a smaller nature from pp. 88-104 (NO impact upon text): certainly describes worse than it is, but there you certainly have it. Strong binding (NO cracks); Square corners (despite rubbing); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Collection of CLASSIC Readings in Induction with Classic Authors in the field. Arguably, Gift-Giving Quality, despite superficial flaws or you may need new friends. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. 1962. Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Jacket has edge wear, short tears. Previous owner name. 363 pages. 6173.

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. London & New York: Hinrichsen Edition. G/No Dustjacket. (1958). . Cloth. 8vo., 181 pp., writing on ffe . Black & White Plates (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Cover. Very Good Hardcover, no dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xiii, 88 Pp. Black And Blue Cloth, Gilt, Green Endpapers. Second Printing Stated (1969), First Published 1967. Fine In Near Fine Price-Clipped Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xiii, 586 Pp. First Printing. Book Is Fine, No Wear, Previous Owner's Information On Title Page. Dj Near Fine, Price Clipped At Top Of Front Flap Leaving Uk Price At Bottom. Dj With Just A Touch Of Rubbing At A Few Points, Near Fine, With Speculative Dates Written Next To "Two Decades" On Front Flap. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Introduction by the editor and 3 essays: 'The Knowledge of Good and Evil' by Northrop Frye, 'Commitment and Imagination' by Stuart Hampshire and ''Politics and the Morality of Scholarship' by Conor Cruise O'Brien; Volume 1 in the Cornell series 'Studies in the Humanities'; Hardback: blue and black cloth decorated in gilt, green end-papers; A little dusty, mark to front pastecown, vg+.…

1961. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 363pp. Abbreviations, charts, diagrams, tables, notes. The dust jacket is edgeworn and rubbed, a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper and the title page, and minor underlining in red ink in the text. "Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive survey of the work of Talcott Parsons, America's most renowned social theorist. This singularly important book brings together a distinctive collection of essays on Parsons' writings by an outstanding group of men from various social science departments at Cornell University". Based on the work of Talcott Parson. Contributors include Alfred L. Baldwin, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Edward C. Devereux, Andrew Hacker, Henry A. Landsberger, Chandler Morse, William Foote Whyte, Robin M. Williams. (Ideas, Essays, Social Behavior, Social Sciences, Social Theory). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printings. January, April, July, and October, 1942. Original printed wraps. Articles, Reviews, Notes; continuous pagination: 1-379. (Note that indexes for this volume are printed in the following year.) There is an editorial in the April issue explaining the change in format due to a wartime paper shortage, with no curtailment of the amount of material. The overall condition is very good, with some normal age-toning, especially to spines, and wear to the yapped edges. [Please see images of the 4 issues and their contents pages.] Interiors are bright and clean. A department inaugurated in January 1941, the Technical Scientific Section, picks up again here in the April issue with Robert S. Hartman's "Prime Number and Cosmical Number," James T. Culbertson's "A Physical Theory of Sensation," and Gustav Bergmann's "Syntactical Analysis of the Class Calculus." Four pages are printed on special glossy paper to accommodate photographs illustrating the text. Articles here by Max Black, Frank E. Egler, Ralph Waldo Gerard, Paul Weiss, and others. My philosopher-father had several volumes of this journal; each year is listed separately with images---please inquire if you are interested in a multi-volume discount. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Berlin, Germany: Phonix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1928. . Hardcover. 4to., 174 pp., rubbed, bumped, cover toning, writing inside cover, lightly toned pages . Black & White/Color Illus. (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red Cloth. First Edition. Very Good+, No Dust Jacket. "Compiled Under The Direction Of The Committee On Scientific Method In The Social Sciences Of The Social Science Research Council." 822 Pages, Slightly Age-Toned At Edges. Five Words Underlined In Red Pencil On Pg.Ix Of The Table Of Contents.No Other Underlining Or Marking. Previous Owner's Name In Very Light Pencil On Front Endpaper. Covers Clean And Unmarked. Top Of Spine Frayed. Bottom Of Spine Shelfworn. A Solid, Tight Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

No date (c. 1961). Prentice-Hall. Hard Cover. Book- VG. DJ- VG, minor edgewear. 8.5x6. 363pp.

Condition: Good. 1974 Cornell. Proceedings of a colloquium held in Aspen, Colorado June-July 1974. Articles include: David Braybrooke, Humanist Misgivings About Theory of Rational Choice; Sissela Bok, Paternalistic Deception in Medicine and Rational Choice - The Use of Placebos; Max Black, Rationality and Cultural Relativism; Frederick Schick, Rationalist Social Analysis; Virginia Held, Rationality and Social Cooperation; Bernard Grofman, Mathematics and Politics; Murray Krieger, Literature, Vision; Ilmar Waldner, Good Desires. 4to., 628pp., wraps. Good, cover worn, some creases on final pages, backstrip chipped, small chips on cover tips. Rare. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. G- dj. Fon fep, dj chipping, pencil underlining, foxing in some pages.

StapleBound. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Vol. III No. 9. New York, NY: The Woman Suffrage Party. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1912. Vol. III No. 9. StapleBound. Sm 4to., 40pp., cover good, cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, light creasing and soiling, light stain on front cover through to first few pages, light foxing to edges of text block, light foxing scattered throughout, otherwise pages unmarked. . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (Sociology) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.