Conjectures and Refutations by Karl R Popper, First Edition (10 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Type: Book N.B. Large plain label to inside front cover. No dust jacket. fading and marking to boards and spine. Corners of boards a little bumped. Foxing to end papers and page edges. Rubbing to ffep along inside spine hinge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, red-orange cloth, xi, 412 pp. Edges of covers faded. Jacket worn, faded on spine and frayed at head and tail, one inch pieces missing from fold of spine and top of front cover. Not price-clipped.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition. Originally published in the US by Basic Books in 1962. The boards have only very slight edge wear. Light browning to the page edges with a one inch pen mark and a few other light marks to the bottom edges. The front free endpaper has the name of the original owner along with his College and a reference number - this was Jimmy Altham a Life Fellow of Gonville & Caius College and a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Small book shop sticker to the front pastedown but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has some fading to the spine and discolouration to the rear panel. There are some chips and tears to the top edge of the rear panel and a little chipping at the top and bottom of the spine. The front panel has a quarter inch closed tear to the top edge and there is a one inch closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Slight chipping to the corners. First printing.

Condition: Gut. ERSTAUSGABE. XIII, 412 Seiten. Auf einer Reihe von Seiten BLEISTIFTANSTREICHUNGEN eines mit Karl Popper befreundeten , nicht unbedeutenden Philosophen, dessen Name am unteren Rand des Innendeckels. Sonst sehr gutes Exemplar der ERSTAUSGABE. - First edition of one of the philosopher's most wide-ranging and popular works, gathering together his articles and lectures to chart the growth of scientific understanding and its influence on history. " The essays and lectures of which this book is composed are variations upon one very simple theme - the thesis that we can learn from our mistakes " (preface). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 Originalleinen. OHNE Umschlag 24 cm.

HARDCOVER. FIRST EDITION. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BLACK CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES. THE BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANDY MARKINGS. D.J. HAS A 1" DEEP BY 2" LONG TRIANGULAR PIECE MISSING AT THE SPINE CORNER OF THE FRONT PANEL, SOME LIGHT SOME LIGHT WEAR WITH SLIGHT LOSS AT THE SPINE PANEL'S EDGES, A TRACE OF SURFACE CHIPPING AT THE TOP EDGE OF THE FRON PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE COPY OF A SCARCE BOOK WITHOUT THE USUAL FADING OF THE RED SPINE PANEL. NEAR FINE IN A NEAR VERY GOOD D.J.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. 1st edition thus, 1962. A Near Fine book in a near fine dust jacket. 8vo., 412 pp., bound in publishers red cloth with red dust jacket, $10.00. Jacket has some light rubbing along the edges and tips. Spine is very slightly faded. Previous owners name inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Perhaps Popper's most wide-ranging and popular work, gathering together his articles and lectures to chart the growth of scientific understanding, and its influence on history and thought. 'The essays and lectures of which this book composed are variations upon one very simple theme - the thesis that we can learn from our mistakes'(preface). Popper dedicated the work to Friedrich von Hayek.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-412 pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering blocked in brown on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Loretta Li. Popper's treatise on a theory of knowledge: here he discusses how a human being can advance their understanding of the world by conducting tests to examine proposed hypotheses, or conjectures. A sharp copy. Light edge wear to the spine panel and to one corner of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo; pp. xiii, 412. POPPER ON PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS. A beautiful copy of this classic, containing Popper's important essay on the reality of philosophical problems, amongst many others. The story of Wittgenstein's engagement with Popper is now well known, having been the subject of a bestselling popular book, Wittgenstein's Poker (2001). In 1946 Wittgenstein had chaired a session of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club, at which Popper presented his paper entitled 'Are There Philosophical Problems?' During the heated debate that followed, Wittgenstein apparently thrust a fireplace poker at Popper, who wryly commented that not threatening speakers with a poker was a good example of a moral rule - at which point Wittgenstein stormed out. Popper developed the paper further, engaging closely with Wittgenstein's work and giving it as his Chairman s address to the Philosophy of Science Group of the British Society for the History of Science. Here the paper constitutes chapter 2 of one of Popper's best known collections of essays. Very good condition: jacket mildly worn to hinges and edges; black cloth pristine; internally clean throughout except for a small ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.

First edition of this major work by Popper. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Rudi greatest of pianists and for me the only one with love from Karl March 28th, 1963." The recipient, Rudolf Serkin, is widely regarded as one of the greatest Beethoven interpreters of the 20th century and was a lifelong friend of Popper's. Popper and Serkin met in Salzkammergut, Austria in 1919 and their friendship lasted until Serkin's death in 1991. In 1934, Serkin asked his mother-in-law, Frieda Busch, to bring Popper's Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Scientific Discovery as it first appeared in German) to the attention of Albert Einstein as the young author did not have an academic position and needed assistance in gaining attention in the scientific community. Einstein responded warmly upon receipt of the book and endorsed the philosophy on all of its essential points. His endorsement created a stir in Vienna and beyond and the book soon received praise from other giants in the field including Rudolf Carnap, Oskar Morgenstern, and Freidrich Hayek. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association. Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

XI, 412 S. Gr. 8°, Ln., goldgepr. Rückentitel auf schwarzem Grund, SU. Rückenetikett am Einbandrücken und SU. SU berieben, Lichtränder,Einrisse. Einband leicht bestoßen, vergilbte Klebstreifenspuren im Vorsatz. Kopfschnitt etwas eingeschmutzt. Papier leicht gebräunt. Insgesamt ordentlicher Zustand. Engl. Erstausgabe. Handschrifliche Widmung Karl Poppers. Bibliotheksexemplar, Barcodeetikett und Stempel im Vorsatz. 1200 gr.