Shoulders Giants Shandean Postscript (44 results)

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Condition: good. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may be missing bundled media.…

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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: good. Cover image may vary. Cover is worn. Pages are sunned. Paperback.

Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Vicennial edition. Owner's name on inside. Dust jacket price clipped. From the collection of American book critic Michael Dirda. Dirda worked as a columnist for The Washington Post from 1978 to 2026 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his criticism. He has authored two collections of literary criticism and several works on books and reading.…

hardcover. Condition: Fair. Binding split at page 66-67. but is intact and pages are held fine. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by University of Chicago Press, 1993. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Pages unmarked. ix, 289 p., 21 cm. "A romp, a frolic, a frisk, a ball, an impossible mad excursion into scholarship and round about and out again. I laughed all the way through and often I laughed out loud." - Catherine Drinker Bowen From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket A playful, erudite classic of the history and sociology of science: Merton's genealogical hunt for the source of Newton's "if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants," told in a deliberately Sterne-esque, digressive style. Widely beloved among historians of science and much-quoted outside the field as well — blurbed here by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling, among others. This is the Vicennial (20th-anniversary) edition, adding Merton's own retrospective preface and an afterword by Denis Donoghue. Condition Boards are sound and square. Spine cloth shows light wear/scuffing at the head and tail with minor fraying, consistent with light shelf handling; no looseness in the text block noted. Dust jacket is bright and glossy with the original two-tone cartoon design intact; light edge wear is visible at the corners. Shipping / Returns Carefully packed for shipment. Domestic shipping via USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. Expedited and international shipping available where permitted. Returns accepted in accordance with AbeBooks policies. SCI 5a.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Harbinger Book, 1965. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with light edgewear and a nick to the top of the spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Harcourt Brace, 1965. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good.

Paperback. [xii], 90p., illustrated with a frontis facsimile of the Isaac Newton mss, softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps. A sound clean copy, entirely unmarked in any way. Humorous scholarship, inspired by the wanderings of Lawrence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy". Introduced most enthusiastically by Bowen and endorsed by Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, and E.G. Boring.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Viennial edition. Afterword by Denis Donoghue. Faint foxing on the foredge else fine in attractive but good only dustwrapper heavily clipped at the bottom of the front flap, and with a small repair on the front panel.

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Fine in fine d.j. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth/boards.

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Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 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.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 348 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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