Hardcover. Beatrice Bayley, Inc., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Gilt decorated covers and spine. Very minor edge wear on the corners. Otherwise, tight clean copy.
Softcover. Providence RI, Berg Publishers, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages. Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community. WITH A CARD SIGNED BY ALL 3 AUTHORS LAID IN.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. An anthropological and historical discourse on the arrival of Christianity in the Southern Tswana region of South Africa. A compelling read and referenced in an in-depth manner. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Medical World, 2nd Ed., 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. A collection of pharmaceutical mixtures, enlarged from the previous year's edition. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, Guyde Publishing Co., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limp red cloth covers stamped in gilt, now faded. Vintage travel guide for the northeast. Maps, advertising, photos, large folding map inside rear cover with a tear to one panel, no paper loss. Previous owners embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Bowling Green Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt medallion on upper cover, gilt-lettered on spine. limited to 1000 copies, this one of 750 for sale, this copy #62 and so attested to in ms. on the copyright-page by Edward Stern & Co., Inc. 368 pages, color frontispiece portrait, 87 reproductions of title pages, letters, portraits, etc. Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Well annotated, with full collations, descriptions, pagination, etc. This is the standard Oliver Goldsmith bibliography, but it can be read for enjoyment as well as for reference. Has much on Samuel Johnson. Previous owner's commentary on rear fly leaf, rear hinge cracked.
Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 604 pages. Stated: First Edition - Third Thousand. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Minor fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. College Station, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front cover. Black & white photographs and illustrations. Darkening to spine paper, light surface rubbing to front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Massacusetts, D. Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Green cloth covers with black titles and gilt illustration, all edges gilt, beveled edges, multiple full page b&w tissue-protected plates, 12 chapters on different American artists. Very light foxing to tissue paper, mild wear to cover edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages plus index, b&w photographs, map end papers. Previous price sticker on back cover. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. A unique reference for those interested in American heritage sculpture and architecture. This book was published in both paperback and clothbound editions. Photography by David Blume.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st American Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, spine straight. Decorated cover boards, red quarter cloth, white title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. Combines practical advice and fascinating narrative to teach the aspiring artist how to paint the nude.
Hardcover. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 415 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Reference for almost 600 photographers who worked in South Carolina. More than 300 b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Praeger, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Introduction and Translation by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top of spine, some additional lesser chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large, oblong format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, pictorial onlay to front. With original paintings by Anthony Rhodes and photos by Piers Cavendish. This is a celebration of the Peregrine. With the specially commissioned photographs of Piers Cavendish and the paintings and drawings of Anthony Rhodes this book describes the distribution and habitat of the peregrine across the world, its life-cycle, relationship with man and its potency as a cultural icon in many countries. Printed in four-colour throughout on art paper the book will examine the global distribution of the various species, the different names given to the peregrine by different countries and cultures. From there the book will focus on historical references to the peregrine, its links with the monarchy and its various cultural significance across the world, in art and literature, myth and fable. The rest of the book comprises a naturalistic description of the peregrine in the wild, its annual - and life-cycle, its interaction with man, the captive breeding of peregrines and their place in falconry. The final chapter will anticipate the future of the peregrine. Bright, clean copy. No slipcase.
Softcover. Washington and Lee University, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. The 2005 issue, Volume 12, of Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum contains the articles: "Selling Domestic Space: The Boarding House in the Southern Mountains" by Michael Ann Williams; "La Casa Alamense: The Mexican Hacienda as Urban Dwelling" by John Messina; "Unraveling the Benjamin Deyerle Legend: An Analysis of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Brickwork in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia" by Michael J. Pulice; "Orson S. Fowler and a Home for All: The Octagon House in the Midwest" by Rebecca Lawin McCarley; and "Roadside Shrines and Granite Sketches: Diversifying the Vernacular Landscape of Memory" by David Charles Sloane.
Softcover. London, Phillips de Pury & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Phillips de Pury & Company of London - auction catalog (May 17, 2008 - Lots 201-341) featuring modern photography. Auction Lots include photographs by: Peter Beard, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, LaChapelle, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, M. Tichy, and more. Shallow creases on front cover. Light wear. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. Berlin, Guido Hackebeil, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages plus tables, ads in rear. Red cloth spine, cream colored boards with light soil. A book on amateur film making, b&w illustrations, German text. AGFA has an ad in the back with actual film stills. Previous owner's bookplate, signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Swann Auction Galleries, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pictorial covers, unpaginated. 453 lots, many black and white illustrations. Among the photographers represented: Yousef Karsh, A. Kertesz, R. Doisneau, Mathew Brady, E. Ruscha, and others. All pages are clean, crisp and tight.
Hardcover. Montreal, Canada, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Tan colored fabric covered. Clean copy, Dust jacket shows some light age wear. From the front flap: "...presents works that show aspects of the history of architecture seen through photography and the history of photography through architecture."
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Generously illustrated account [435 b/w photo reproductions] of the photogrphy produced by various well-known Bauhaus associates such as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, T. Lux Feininger, Florence Henri, Herbert Bayer, and others during the mid-1920s and early 1930s. An invaluable compilation of images and information about the work of this dynamic group of artists, designers, photographers and their students who had such an important impact on Western aesthetics and culture throughout the subsequent decades of the 20th century.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Rizzoli for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 317 pages. illustrated throughout in color, some b/w., major scholarly exhibition catalogue on Perugino, known as Raphael's teacher. Contains 7 essays by 8 contributors and much reference material. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: Due to weight, domestic shipping only.
Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 4th pr., 1956, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 376 pages. A cosmology is a narrative concerning the creation of the universe. Many ancient philosophers have written or elaborated this kind of work. The Platonic dialogue Timeus is an account of the work of the creator god (called the demiurge - or artisan) sculpting the chaotic material world in accordance with the immaterial model of the Ideas. But the text was written in a very hermetic and symbolic language, making its interpretation difficult or even impossible without the knowledge of the references and symbols used by Plato. This book is a complete translation of the text followed by a comprehensive commentary explaining in detail every passage. Francis MacDonald Cornford is one of the most important ancient philosophy scholars, and this work reveals his deep knowledge of Platonic and Greek thought. It is a must have for anyone interested in greek and Platonic philosophy.Two name stamps on prelim pages, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Bondi Digital Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Playboy Cover to Cover--the 50s brings the magazine's entire groundbreaking first decade--every issue, every page, cover to cover--into one searchable digital archive.This exclusive box set features the Bondi Reader, powerful MAC or PC browsing software that allows you to explore, search, save and arrange multiple reading lists. Every story, feature and interview, and of course every Playmate, can be located in seconds, and then compiled and cross-referenced however you choose. Playboy Cover to Cover--the 50s also comes with a 224? page companion coffee table book chronicling the behind-the- scenes history of Playboy and filled with never-before-published letters, photos, and contact sheets of Playboy?s amazing first decade. A collector's edition reissue of the extremely rare first issue--featuring Marilyn Monroe's breathtaking cover and pictorial--is included as a special bonus. This essential collection is a must for lifelong fans and subscribers of Playboy, nostalgia seekers, history and culture buffs, as well as all lovers of beautiful women.
Hardcover. London, Ward, Lock and Co, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black stamped decoration with gilt lettering on front. Green cover boards with light rubbing ton edges. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 931 pages. Greek glossary, English glossary, bibliography of Principal editions of secondary sources. Octavo. Glossy burgunday soft covers with gold and white titles. Covers have minimal shelf wear, a small bump at top left front, interior clean and fresh, a few pages have very slight sign of storage bend at the top corner, otherwise very good. Heavy for international shipping. The Enneads is a work central to the history of philosophy in late antiquity. This volume is the first complete edition in English for 75 years and also includes Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Led by Gerson, a team of experts present up to date translations which are based on the best available text, the editio minor of Henry and Schwyzer and its corrections.... They also offer extensive annotation to assist the reader, together with cross-references and citations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Really Great Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 265 pages.From the co-creator of "Mr. Magoo," and screenwriter for "Gun Crazy" (1950, front for Dalton Trumbo), "Unknown World" (1951), "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), and "Klansman" (1974), Millard expands on the craft of screenwriting. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Wiley-Interscience, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Minor cover edge wear. Rubbing on front and back flyleaf along edges. Illustrations, charts and photographs throughout. A very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 5th pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 181 pages plus a List of Poets cited. An alphabetical list of terms related to versification and the composition and reading of poetry.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR with a tiny sketch. Another graphically minimalist yet utterly effective picture book for the very young. "Snug inside her warm den, a polar bear cub wakes. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it?" The tug of this gentle mystery will draw children into Thompson's simple bedtime story, and the hypnotic ebb and flow of her alliterative lines (on a night that's "keen and cold," little cub "sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice") will keep children immersed as the young explorer encounters floating, dreaming sea creatures, and witnesses a meteor shower that further transforms the already exotic nighttime surroundings. As arresting as Thompson's language are Savage's powerful linocuts, which beautifully reference the textures and forms of Inuit stone carvings and evoke the arctic landscape in a few elemental colors per spread: glacial blues, grays, and sea greens; the pinks and lavenders of the aurora borealis.
Hardcover. London, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1887 and 1902, Volume 1: 577 pages. Introduction to the Politics. Published 1887.Volume 2: 418 pages. Prefatory Essays, Books I and II, Text and Notes. Published 1887.nbVolume 3: 603 pages. Two Essays, Books III, IV, and V, Text and Notes. Published 1902.Volume 4: 708 pages. Essay on Constitutions, Books VI-VIII, Text and Notes. Published 1902.Previous owner's marginal notes and light underlining within. Blue cloth binding. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Black end pages in volumes 1&2. Pages have some slight tanning from age. Binding is tight. Spines straight. "With an Introduction, Two Prefatory Essays and Notes Critical and Explanatory". DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover set. Two Volumes, Vol. 1: the land birds, 473 pages, and Vol. 2: game and water birds, 431 pages. Minor spine edge fray and corner wear. Volume 1 has one inch tear along spine and loose pages in front. Otherwise, both volumes have clean pages and are in good condition.
Softcover. Chicago, Popular Mechanics Co, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Pages reprinted from the magazine, vintage machinery, tools from back in the day. Small note above title on cover, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Albiano, e. s. Po., Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Softcover with light wear to covers, crease to corner edge. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color & black & white throughout, including charts, diagrams, instructions. Clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. London, The Studio, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth gilt lettering on spine. 32 pages plus 56 plates, 40 in color, 16 in b&w. A comprehensive study into the artform of portrait miniatures, with reference to the complexity and difficulty of the work. Written by George Charles Williamson, a British art historian, antiquarian, and author. Edited by Charles Holme, an English journalist and art critic. Hinges cracked otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, William T. Comstock, 5th, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt titles on spine and cover. Fifth edition. Light rubbing to cover edges, corners. Clean, unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, American Book Company, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Hardcover. Color (maps) and b/w illustrations throughout. Brown leather boards, black designs and gilt on spine and front cover board. Decorated edges.
Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 505 pages. Reprint of the first edition published in 1949. With an Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. One of the indisputable classics of 20th-century scholarship, Bowers's work is one of the standard guides on the subject, providing a comprehensive manual for the description of printed books as physical objects. Although there has been much activity in descriptive bibliography since then, Principles still holds its place as the central book to which those engaged in bibliographical work continually return. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Hearst Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. Color photographs. "Celebrates the design of the book in the broadest possible meaning of the word, gathering together the most exciting examples of recent book and jacket design, it also includes work for CD booklets, publicity for industry and the arts, self-promotional and experimental work." Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Skira/Rizzoli, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, 86 color, 252 b&w illustrations. A clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket. Slipcased. The book delivers on its title, covering various printmaking techniques from the 15th century to the present. An excellent reference.
Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 208 pages of text followed by a ection of corresponding black & white illustrations. Titian's fame as the greatest colorist in the history of painting has led students of his art to concentrate on problems of style and authenticity rather than on problems of content and meaning. Dr. Panofsky treats this neglected aspect of the Venetian master's work with a wealth of humanistic scholarship, exploring such varied topics as Titian's relationship to the philosophy and literature of his time, his attitude toward the antique, and the reasons behind his unrivaled acclaim as a portraitist. These studies show Titian to have been a man of far richer and more complex culture than hitherto assumed, possessed not only of the supremely gifted hand but of a subtle and poetic mind.Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 491 pages. Red boards with white printed illustration & white titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout, including figures, chart, tables & photographs. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. The term pulp fiction has always had a certain resonance; but it is the artwork--bold, energized, dramatic, garishly colorful, and frequently grotesque--that has made pulp magazines memorable to so many people. Pulp Art is the groundbreaking--and ultimate--book on one of America's most important and spectacular forms of illustration art. At last, preserved in this volume are most of the still-existing originals created for the pulp covers, never before seen in all their sharply focused, vibrantly colored brilliance. Robert Lesser, a pioneering collector of this work and an expert on American popular culture, has assembled a gallery of these now-priceless originals. The dynamically pulp-flavored text is a complete historical survey of the pulps and their most important cover artists--Virgil Finlay, J. Allen St. John, Rafael de Soto, Hannes Bok, George and Jerome Rozen, Frank R. Paul, and many others. Also offered are critical discussions of individual paintings, as well as the major themes of the pulp magazines.
Hardcover. West Kingston RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth covers. Collection of Lovecraft's nonfiction writings covering: Science, Literature and Esthetics, Philosophy, Travel, and History. Light wear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 260 pages. No dust jacket. John Locke's untitled manuscript "Questions concerning the Law of Nature" (1664) was his only work focused on the subject of natural law, a circumstance that is especially surprising since his published writings touch on the subject frequently, if inconclusively. Containing a substantial critical apparatus, this new edition of Locke's manuscript is faithful to Locke's original intentions and to the format he chose for his discourse on the law of nature-a late-Scholastic quaestio disputata, the form through which in 1664 the young Locke debated questions with his students as moral censor of Christ Church.For this volume, Robert Horwitz provides an introduction summarizing the history of the manuscript and analyzing Locke's role in the development of thinking on natural law. Jenny Strauss Clay offers a superb critical edition of the Latin text, for which she has supplemented the Latin text of Manuscript B, written by an amanuensis, with Manuscript A, a first draft in Locke's own hand. Diskin Clay's precise English translation-with the Latin presented on facing pages-is accompanied by annotations identifying Locke's references and allusions and explaining difficulties of translation.In the view of Horwitz, Clay, and Clay, Questions concerning the Law of Nature shows a tension between several opposing conceptions of natural law. In developing this view, the editors break with W. von Leyden, who prepared the first edition of the text and who interpreted Locke's understanding of natural law squarely within a Christian framework. The editors here present a fresh interpretation of Locke as a thinker who posed a series of subtle challenges to traditional natural law doctrine. That Locke was aware of the political danger of this challenge is evident from his refusal to publish the work during his lifetime and from the care he took to conceal these manuscripts among his possessions. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages. Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap. Influenced by Russell and especially by Carnap, another towering figure, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) emerged as the most important proponent of analytic philosophy during the second half of the century. Yet with twenty-three books and countless articles to his credit-including, most famously, Word and Object and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"-Quine remained a philosopher's philosopher, largely unknown to the general public.Quintessence for the first time collects Quine's classic essays (such as "Two Dogmas" and "On What There Is") in one volume-and thus offers readers a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. Divided into six parts, the thirty-five selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially advanced. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.