Elementary Logic. Revised edition.

QUINE, Willard Van Orman.

Published by Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966

Second revised edition, presentation copy from the author to his elder brother Robert Cloyd Quine and his wife Rosalie, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Rosalie & Bob with love from Van". Quine wrote Elementary Logic while teaching an introductory course in the subject in 1940, and discovering that current texts in the subject did not do justice to either quantification theory or first-order logic. First published in 1941, it was used as a standard textbook in the subject for many decades. The revised edition was first published in 1965 as a paperback, this second edition in hardback in 1966. "This edition, appearing after twenty-four years, is much revised. Fully a third is new. There is some change of notation, much updating of terminology, and a nearly complete turnover in crucial techniques of testing and proving" (author's preface to the revised edition). Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. A fine copy, in near-fine, lightly toned jacket. Seller Inventory # 150060

Bibliographic Details

Title: Elementary Logic. Revised edition.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition