Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Crooked House Books & Paper

Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Full black cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, white dust jacket, 9-1/2" tall, 229 pp. Fine copy in near fine jacket with very light wear. The philosopher uses quantum physics to elucidate his concept that something can come from nothing. "There is no such thing as scientific induction. The future is not contained in the past. There is indeterminism in physics and in history. There is genuine emergence in biology. Value cannot be reduced to fact. Mind cannot be reduced to matter.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Binding designed by Julius Adolph Schweinfurth with his monogram to front cover. Two volumes in paper-backed cloth dust jackets, hardcovers, full blue cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering to front covers and spines, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, magenta clay-coated endpapers, dust jackets with gilt lettering and decoration to spines, 8-1/4" tall, 355 + 352 pp., illustrations in photogravure by Howard Pyle, Edmund H. Garrett, Evert van Muyden, with photos of sculpture and architecture, color maps. Both front hinges over-opened, white soiling to front and rear panels of dust jacket of volume one. Extra postage required for priority or international shipping.