Robin Farquharson (30 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A nice hardcover with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 83 Seiten Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 260. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Clean, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with two-colour in-text diagrams. Appendixes, bibliography. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. xii,83pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0631124608. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 83pp. Brick red boards with small gilt lettering on spine. Dustwrapper price-clipped, with large black title box for white title lettering on front cover, borders in red, with white author lettering superimposed over red, above lower edge; spine perhaps very slightly age-toned, with white lettering verging on cream color or was originally so, with front cover white lettering entirely bright, bold; very thin line of wear across spine ends, 1/16" tear with tiny wear at front lower corner; tiniest tips of wear at other corners; 2 tears of 1/4" at 1/4" apart at 1/2" to right of lower left corner of rear cover, but fully flat 1/4" piece between the tears, not curled: now in mylar, which forgives all sins. No previous owner names or other writing in text or on edges; tight spine, no creases; appears unread. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 312 pages. 8.75x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Black hardcover with pink titles on spine. Very tidy externally. Psychedelic e/p's. Touch of foxing to page edges. 104pp. No inscriptions. DW has some soiling and edge-wear. It has been price clipped.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition,Size 4.7" x 8.5" tall,illustrated hardcover by Alan Aldridge with slight tear to top of dustjacket, black hardcover with gold stamped title and author to spine,pyschadelic pastedowns and endpapers,104 pages with one very slight mark to back end of endpaper,pages all clean with no marks,not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. the jacket could be called fair. it is worn and marked and there has been tape repair underneath (mostly invisible) there are quite a few small tears but there is almost no paper loss. the book itself has no inscriptions and is well bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Bound in the publisher's cloth in a clipped dust wrapper. The wrapper lightly chipped to the edges, the panels rather scuffed and rubbed as usual, with nicks and loss to the extremities. A closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel, which has a few spots. Psychedelic endpapers in full colour. Light creasing to the top corner of the leaves and the occasional spot. A good copy of this unusual autobiographical work by Farquharson, regarding his dropping out of academia and a subsequent experimentation with L.S.D.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 104pp. Minor wear only for the book, no inscriptions. The original, unclipped dust jacket is dusty, 2cm chips at the spine ends, small, closed tear, minor wear elsewhere, now protected. A link to the drugs scene and what it was like to "drop out" in the 1960's. Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st Printing. In clean unclipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Alan Aldridge. An attractive copy. The jacket has signs of wear. The book is firmly bound, the cover is clean and bright. The page-block edges are tanned and slightly foxed, inside on the FFEP is the previous owners bookplate (as shown in photo). Available for immediate dispatch from our Bookshop: Jabberwock Books, Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Alan Aldridge (Dustjacket illustration) (illustrator).…

brossura. Condition: Good. 0. In 8, leg. ed., tit. e Autore in oro al dorso, pp. 83, con ill. in n. n.t., in inglese. Leggere abrasioni e tracce di sporco alla cop., scritta a penna alla sguardia ant., rare sottolineature a penna nera e a matita con alcune scritte a margine, buone condizioni.Luogo di pubblicazione OxfordEditore Basil BlackwellAnno pubblicazione 1969Materia/Argomento Teoria del voto ***Books dated over 70 years old are not exportable, please do not order.***. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1968 Anthony Blond London Hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good+ unclipped dustjacket. Jacket design by Alan Aldridge. Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: very good. First Edition. Essay. Saggio.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. tall 4to illus purple wraps, stapled, 49p, rear cover loose, contents Very Good, a few dog ears, wealth of underground and alternative news with in depth article re the Death of Soth African activist Pip Farquharson.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0631124608. Hardback. Good condition book with water stain on bottom edge of back and front covers over spine, browning to edges of front and back cloth covered boards, in a Good condition dustjacket with water stain over spine and front and back covers, chips, tears, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight sound copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 104 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in very good dust jacket. 'Reginald Robin Farquharson (3 October 1930 1 April 1973) was an academic whose interest in mathematics and politics led him to work on game theory. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting. Farquharson diagnosed himself as suffering from bipolar disorder (manic depression), and episodes of mania made it difficult for him to obtain a permanent university position and also resulted in him losing commercial employment. In later years, he dropped out of mainstream society, and became a prominent counter-cultural figure in late-1960s London. Farquharson wrote an account of his unconventional life in his 1968 book, Drop Out!, in which he described a week of being homeless in London. In 1973 he died from burns associated with an arson, for which two persons were convicted of unlawful killing.'.…

8vo, 104pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in a good dust jacket with rubbed covers. . Inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. Institutsstempel, Papiersignatur auf Buchrücken, einige Figuren, geringf. Nutzspuren.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FARQUHARSON, Robin [104] pp. Anthony Blond Ltd. 1968 8 5/8" x 4 7/8" Jacket design by Alan Aldridge The writings of the man who ditched a successful university career and simply dropped out, living on the streets of London, and his acquaintance with L.S.D.…

First Edition. xii, 83 pp; errata leaf (taped to flyleaf; residue from tape glue now along edges of errata leaf). Original cloth. Signature of former owner (Max S. Power) on flyleaf, else Near Fine, in very good dust jacket (price-clipped). Pp. ix-x = Foreword by Martin Shubik.

Condition: Fine. New Haven 1969 Yale. 8vo., 83pp., errata slip, original hardcover. From the Library of John Diebold, with his name stamp on front free blank. Fine in Fine DJ.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Entire issue offered. Original wrappers. Very Good+. 'I was intrigued by a paper by Michael Dummett and Robin Farquharson published in Econometrica in 1961. I was intrigued for three reasons. Firstly, I had never heard of the authors. Secondly, in the first pages of the paper, what would become, more than ten years later, one of the most famous results of the social choice literature, viz. the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem, was conjectured in passing. Thirdly, the used proof technique was 'different' ' (Maurice Salles, 'Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting', Centre for Research in Economics and Management, Public Economics and Social Choice series working paper 16; Salles adds in footnote 1, 'The originality of the proof technique is reminiscent of the proof used to show, given an acyclic binary relation over a finite set of elements, the existence of maximal elements in this finite set'). 'Michael Dummett is famous among social science theorists for his joint paper with Robin Farquharson published in Econometrica in 1961. . 'I was first interested in the theory of voting by Robin Farquharson who was a very brilliant young man and had become interested in the theory of voting while he was still an undergraduate. I knew him well, and then we wrote a paper together and that was my first contribution to the subject, in print anyway. John Hicks who, as professor, was a Fellow of All Souls at the same time as I was, congratulated me on having a paper published in Econometrica. Well then as you know Robin Farquharson fell victim to this awful mental illness and couldn't really do any more creative work. . [There was] this dramatic episode when he entered the prize fellowship examination at All Souls. He quite certainly would have been elected but for the insane telephone conversation he had with the Warden on the eve of the election meeting -- the first manifestation of the mental illness from which he suffered for the rest of his life. . Robin Farquharson said we should send it to Econometrica, so I sent it to Econometrica. . I can't remember who actually wrote the main body of the text. I mean, we wrote it together, but the machinery, the technical notions and technical vocabulary, that all came from him' ('An interview with Michael Dummett: from analytical philosophy to voting analysis and beyond', by Rudolf Fara and Maurice Salles, on the LSE Web site).…

Condition: very good +. Arts Labs Newsletter #7, Arts Lab, London, April 1970. Foolscap, mimeographed and sidestapled. 52pp. Produced by Nicholas Albery of BIT Information Service as a way for various arts labs throughout the UK to communicate. On the front cover, the newsletter calls for 'a figure in the region of £300,000' to fund experimental activities and for an Arts Council with a strong central panel that would be representative and supportive of the various regions of the UK. 'Are we going to be allowed to run our own affairs or sold down the river by compromisers,' asks Arts Lab. This issue prints Allen Ginsberg's address, 'Consciousness & Practical Action', at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress held in London in 1967; 'The Rebirth of Joy: The Arts Laboratory'; 'Transmedia Explorations'; extracts from Andrew Rigby's interview with Robin Farquharson from Rigby's Communes Research Project; 'The Alternate Ways', an article on communes and tribes; news from the Eel Pie Community and other communes; 'Arts Labs & Related Phenomena' (including a contribution from Monica Sjöö from Bristol's action group for women's lib, an early exponent of the Goddess movement), upcoming gigs for Dr. Strangely Strange, The Spontaneous Music Ensemble and The Egg at the Crypt in Notting Hill; and more. Condition: light toning to pages and covers, otherwise very good +.…

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF AN INFLUENTIAL PAPER ON THE THEORY OF VOTING, THE DUMMETT-FARQUHARSON THEORY. This paper "worked on the theoretical aspects of aggregation of individual preferences and on the strategic aspects of voting theory", provided an extended version of Duncan Black's single-peakedness theories, and argued "that deterministic voting rules with more than three issues faced endemic strategic voting" (Salles, Michael Dummett on Social Choice and Voting, Research Gate, February 2006; Wikipedia). Specifically, Dummett and Farquharson conjectured that "Voting is presented as an n-person majority game, in which preferences are ordinal. A condition on the preferences, substantially weaker than one postulated by D. Black, is shown to be sufficient for 'stability' in such games" (Dummett & Farquharson, p. 33). "In this paper, Dummett and Farquharson conjecture Gibbard's theorem. Furthermore, they prove the existence of maximal elements (tops of the social domination relation) for majority games (different from a majority rule essentially in the treatment of individual indifference) when individual preferences satisfy a condition analogous to single-peakedness but weaker than single-peakedness. "Precisely, one can read 'We cannot assume that each voter's actual strategy will be determined uniquely by his preference scale. This would be to assume that every voter votes "sincerely," whereas it seems unlikely that there is any voting procedure in which it can never be advantageous for any voter to vote'" strategically," i.e., non-sincerely. A general proof of this conjecture was given by Gibbard only in 1973 and by Satterthwaite in 1975" ( Salles, The Best Voting Method, Social Choice and Welfare, 337). "Nakamura proved Dummett and Farquharson's result for all proper simple games and Salles and Wendell used the similarity between Dummett and Farquharson's condition on preferences and quasi-concavity of utility functions in dimension 1 to extend some of Nakamura's theorems" ( Salles, The Best Voting Method, Social Choice and Welfare, 337). Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (1925-2011) was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician who did important work on voting theory and systems. His obituary described him as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality" (Obituary, Sir Michael Dummett, 28 December 2011). Reginald Robin Farquharson (1930-1973) "was an academic whose interest in mathematics and politics led him to work on game theory. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems" (Wikipedia). CONDITION & DETAILS: New Haven: Yale University. 4to (10 x 7 inches; 250 x 175mm). First edition in original printed wraps. Complete. [1], 109, [7]. Very slight toning at the edges. Near fine.…