Beyond Reductionism: New Perspectives in the Life Sciences
by Koestler, Arthur / Smythies, J. R. - editors
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo. x + 438 pp, previous owner's gift inscription inked on fr pastedown, The Alspach Symposium 1968, List of 16 participants, prefaced, 14 papers by contributors with footnotes - references, index of names. Binding tight and square, pages unmarked, clean, and well-preserved, black cover cloth & gilt spine letters unworn and crisp. Price clipped DJ Near Fine in protector. 6" x 8.5" black cloth boards, red stained top-edge, deckled foreedge..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007718
- Title
- Beyond Reductionism: New Perspectives in the Life Sciences
- Author
- Koestler, Arthur / Smythies, J. R. - editors
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Jean Piaget - Jerome Bruner - Victor Frankl - Paul A. Weiss - et al - contributors - philosophy of science
- Bookseller catalogs
- SOCIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;
- Size
- Octavo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- 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...
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Price Clipped
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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