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Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1890. Hardcover. Good/None. This is an ORIGINAL publication, not a reprint, facsimile or print-on-demand book. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Black cloth boards with gilt titling on spine; spine is toned. Worn at extremities. Small impression marks to rear board near spine heel. Bump to side page edges. Binding is tight, resulting in last two pages torn at the gutter where staples held but paper tore (pages are attached). Owner's small address label on front pastedown. Interior is unmarked. Pages are toned with age. 12mo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. '(1851 Providence, RI -- 1924 Topeka, KS) US inventor, Indian fighter and author whose sf novel, A.D. 2000 (1890; vt Back to Life (A.D. 2000): A Thrilling Novel 1911), wakes its protagonist (see Sleeper Awakes) in the Utopian culture of the year 2000, significantly the same year that the protagonist of Edward Bellamy's already hugely influential Looking Backward (1888) awakens. A single… Read More

Ireland: ACRA Ground Rent Sub-Committee, 1975. Pamphlet. Very Good/None. Yellow wrappers toned at spine; all pages clean, unmarked and intact, with solid binding. Overall a very good, clean copy of this scarce political pamphlet. This pamphlet sets out the background to the campaign in Ireland against ground rent, an ""abomination"" and ""medieval relic"" which has resulted in many homeowners paying more than once for the plot on which their homes stand. Association of Combined Residents Association John Fitzgibbon

US: American Motors Corp, 1983. Paperback. Very Good/None. Clean! gray softcover with white titling and illustrated front cover. Stored in original cardboard shipping box. Owner's name and '85 Eagle' penned on title page, otherwise unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: With 4-hole punched Jan 1987 I.S. (Information Services) Note Compilation laid in, covering the period Feb 1, 1983 to Dec. 31, 1986 and includes a Note Index which lists all related materials for the I.S. Notes from MR 251 and MR 171.

Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, The, 1993. Paperback. Fair/None. Signed. **SIGNED/INSCRIBED** by author (with first name) to poet Moira Bailis on half title page. First 20 pages bent at upper corner, a few of them at bottom. Red glossy wraps bent. Couple pages dog-eared. Nonetheless, interior is unmarked and spine uncreased. Love poetry, English

Northern Ireland: The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Paperback. Very Good/None. Education Facsimiles 41-60 White paper folder illustrated by drawings of presumably Irish countrymen, one in black with fist raised, and one in red with finger pointed, protected in a vinyl sleeve. Enclosed are loose pages, 1 tri-fold, 12 single and 7 bi-fold, printed on both sides. Clean and unmarked. (8 1/2 x 12 ins.) BOOK INFO: First published in 1970, this folder comprises 20 facsimile reprints of historic documents dealing with the Aug. 1, 1800, Union of Britain and Ireland. In the first, an introduction, A Lyric Canto appointed to be sung or said in all meeting houses, and a list of contents for the other records in this pack, which includes correspondence of Lord Hobart, Lord Downshire, Lord Castlereagh, Duke of Portland, Lord Cornwallis, Lord Camden, and Lord Charlemont; Draft for the Co. Westmeath petition to Parliament against the Union; and A page of signatures to the Co. Louth petition to… Read More

Dordrecht-Holland/Boston-USA: D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1976. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Synthese library Brand, M. Dark blue cloth boards with border and emblem embossed on front and gilt titling on spine. Stamped on page edges in black New School Library. Upper page edges lightly toned. Scar to front pastedown where bookplate removed, with adhesive remnants there and on ffep. Strangely, a page number is scratched out on the contents page, resulting in a tiny hole. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Proceedings of the Winnipeg Conference on Human Action, held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 9-11 May 1975. Edited by Myles Brand and Douglas Walton. Contents include: Introduction; Basic action; The volitional theory revisited; The logic of action; Events and actions; The agency theory; Abilities and other 'cans'; Responsibility and human action; Decision theory and human action. Includes names and subjects indices. Action theory--Congresses, Agent… Read More

US: Utah State University Press, 2008. Paperback. Like New/None. 2008 Our photos depict actual book for sale. In original shrink wrap. 8vo. Ships from our family-owned, independent bookstore in the US. BOOK INFO: One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn't suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline in serving students and its other constituencies. The Activist WPA is an effort to address this range of issues for the field of English composition in the age of the Spellings Commission and the No Child Left Behind Act. Drawing on recent developments in framing theory and the resurgent traditions of progressive organizers, Linda Adler-Kassner calls upon composition teachers and administrators to develop strategic programs of collective action that do justice to composition's best principles.… Read More

Montreuil, France: Ediguides, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Ediguides Laminated illustrated boards. 7.5 x 11 inches. Interior clean and unmarked. Sewn binding tight and square. Front pastedown stamped ""0673/1798"" perhaps for number of printings. The first in what was intended to be a series of books unearthing the histories of the most influential Champagne houses, this edition explores the family and inventions of Jacquesson & fils, honored by Napoleon the First with a gold medal ""for the beauty and the richness of its cellars"", and its struggle to retain its legacy today.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. NOT ex-library; Unmarked, clean and tight; Dust jacket rubbed and has 1/4"" closed tear, also creased and chipped at top, now covered; End flap price clipped. translated from the Italian by Robert Einaudi; replete with b&w photo illustrations; includes index. From the end flap: ""Here is a verbal and pictorial illustraion of the credo that has guided one of the world's most distinguished architects throughout his career, 'Architecture is, and must be, a synthesis of technology and art.'""

Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub Co, 1983. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Green and white softcover with black titling, suntanned on spine and front cover edges. Page edges toned. Tiny chip at spine head with lightest edgewear. Interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Edited by James E. Tomberlin. In the present volume, including essays and a correspondence by fourteen distinguished philosophers, Castaneda's views are searchingly addressed in the fields of action theory, deontic logic, metaphysics and ontology, philosophy of language, logic and mind, and the theory of knowledge. To round out the volume, Castaneda supplies a penetrating set of replies in which he alternately extends, revises, and defends his views. (-from the preface). Includes bibliographies and indexes of names and subjects. Castan?eda, Hector-Neri, 1924-1991, Philosophy

Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. TWO VOLUMES: The first, green cloth boards; owner's name inked on ffep and prelim papers lightly wrinkled. The second, blue cloth boards. Both in very good condition with square, tight bindings and with little to no apparent edgewear, though there is light foxing along the page edges. Both with DJs, the first edgeworn and chipped. Interiors unmarked. 351 & 389 pp. 8vo. BOOK INFO: The first full-length biography of Whitehead provides 'as much as it is possible to know about the life of a man who had the bulk of his papers destroyed.' (-J. B. Schneewind, editor) Include indexes. Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947, Philosophers--Great Britain--Biography, Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Green pictorial cloth boards with yellow titling worn at extremities. Pages are wrinkled along bottom edges. 6.25 x 7.75 ins. BOOK INFO: Alfred, a stuffed toy bear, goes exploring. Illustrated with photographs. Bears--Fiction

New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer, 1976. Hardcover. Good-/None. Graduate Texts in Mathematics Yellow and white cloth boards, toned along upper front board and spine. Upper page edges darkened. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates removed. Numbers stamped on preface page. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'In the past decade, category theory has widened its scope and now interacts with many areas of mathematics. This book develops some of the interactions between universal algebra and category theory as well as some of the resulting applications. We begin with an exposition of equationally defineable classes from the point of view of algebraic theories, but without the use of category theory. This serves to motivate the general treatment of algebraic theories in a category, which is the central concern of the book. (No category theory is presumed; rather, an independent treatment is provided by the second chapter.) Applications abound throughout the text and exercises and… Read More

New York: Chelsea Pub. Co., 1963. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Handsome navy cloth boards with gilt titles and bands on the spine, heavy bump to long front edge, corners slightly bumped, and page edges stippled with foxing. Spine toned. Binding is sound. Pastedowns have discoloration from adhesive, only indications of possible-ex library. Text is unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Full of mathematical formulas. 'George Boole (1815-1862), in his famous book on logic, Laws of Thought, published in 1854, developed a symbolism that today is called Boolean algebra. The simplest example of such an algebra is that obtained by applying to sets the operations of forming unions, intersections, and differences (or passage from a set to its complement). It is clear from this that the theory of measure,… Read More

Monterey, CA: Wadsworth & Brooks, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. The Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Mathematics Series Red boards with gilt titling on front cover and spine. Binding is tight. Interior clean and unmarked. White and blue pictorial dustjacket is worn and a bit chipped along edges. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Co-authors George F. McNulty and Walter F. Taylor. This book should be of interest to graduate-level courses in algebra or universal algebra. 'This is the first of four volumes devoted to the general theory of algebras and the closely related subject of lattice theory.... We regard an algebra as a nonempty set equipped with a system of finitary operations.' (from the preface).

Paperback. Good-/None. No. 138/41 Full-color, full-page pictorial stapled softcovers, softened and worn at edges, and lightly soiled and toned. Interior unmarked. (7 1/2 x 8 1/4 ins.) BOOK INFO: Each is 8 pp., but text begins on inside front cover and extends to inside back cover, with 4 pp. of full-page color illustration, and 2 pp. of B&W, almost full-pg., illustration. No publication information, other than 'No. 138/41' on back cover. Paintings are signed by, Willy [Wilhelmina] Schermele, (1904-1995), the artist and cartoonist from the Netherlands of Winkie fame. ca. 1930.

Boston, MA: Thomas B. Noonan & Co.. Hardcover. Good/None. Catholic Boys & Girls Library Undated; ca. late 19th century; (preface dated 1854). Not a 'brand new book' or reprint/POD; Rather, this is an original edition. Our photos depict actual book for sale. Green cloth boards with embossed gilt decoration on front and spine, and crest blindstamped on back cover. Edgeworn at extremities. Floral decorated endpapers. Half title page has been torn out. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. No dustjacket. 16mo. Ships from our family-owned, independent bookstore in the US. Unpaginated. BOOK INFO: 'There is little need of a preface to a work like this, which bears its moral on every page, and is, moreover, so very simple and unpretending that it requires not the formality of an introduction. Still I have a few words of explanation to give with regard to the former edition. Alice Riordan's 'first appearance on any stage' was in the columns of the Boston Pilot, and when issued in book form, it was… Read More

Price temporarily reduced, 15% off! Canada: Ash Tree Press, 2003. Paperback. Good/None. The Journal of the Ghost Story Society Pictorial softcover, small 8vo., with light soiling to page edges. Two instances of underlining in News & Notes, otherwise unmarked. BOOK INFO: Love Knot by Simon Bestwick; The Roar of the Rain by Darren Goossens; Ye Olde Video Shoppe by Aaron Albrecht; The Crypt of the Innocents by Philip McCormac; The Cloud People by Peter H. Wood; A is for the Angel by Lee Jackson; The Flit by John Travis; and Izanami in Copper by Joseph A. Ezzo.

Price temporarily reduced, 15% off! Canada: Ash Tree Press, 2003. Paperback. Good/None. Pictorial softcover, small 8vo., with light soiling to page edges. Contents have check marks, underlining in Editor's Notes, otherwise unmarked. BOOK INFO: The Centipede by Susan Davis; The House that James Built by Carol Weekes; It's the Thought that Counts by Megan Walden; Galen's Closet by Tim Foley; Sleepless Nights by Stephen Volk; 768-2003 by Mike Koenen; The Feet on the Roof by Anjana Basu; and Ackerman's Fate by Robert Morrish.

London, New York: Ernest Nister, E. P. Dutton, 1902. Hardcover. Poor+/None. Nister No. 742 Fantastic, whimsical pictorial boards are rubbed and heavily worn at extremities. Pages are chipped, toned with age, and disbound. Light blue floral pastedowns. Child's writing in pencil captions the color frontispiece. Previous owner's name on ffep. (8 x 10.25 ins.) BOOK INFO: Former owner has pasted in 8 square clippings of cat comics by Wain onto rear fep. Book illustrated by Louis Wain in B&W, some with an added single color. 'Clifton Bingham (1859 - 1913), the author of numerous verses for children's picture books in the late Victorian and Edwardian period, was better known as the writer of the lyrics of many popular sentimental songs, the most famous of which was Love's Old Sweet Song.' (-British Library website).