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The Way Things Are
by Bridgman, P. W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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About This Item
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses the nature of the scientific search for knowledge, and the inevitable effect of the observer upon the observed. First edition (first printing). Hardcover, black cloth spine over green cloth boards, gilt titling. Light wear to book; price-clipped jacket shows some tears, chips, small stains. Text clean; x, [2], 333 pages; index, brief bibliography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- p0984
- Title
- The Way Things Are
- Author
- Bridgman, P. W
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Physics, Epistemology, Philosophy
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
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Bookworks
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; and a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI; and we work with A Room Of One's Own at 315 West Gorham Street in Madison, Wisconsin. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at either location with a few days' notice.
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- octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...[more]
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...[more]
- spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....[more]
- gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...[more]
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