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An Inquiry Into Meaning & Truth.
by RUSSELL, Bertrand
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company,, 1940. First edition, first printing (published simultaneously in the UK by George Allen & Unwin). A study of the relationship between language and knowledge, Russell's work relates psychology with modern logic. The book is based on the William James lectures that Russell delivered at Harvard in 1940. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in gilt and red, and with red ground. With dust jacket. Light bumping and rubbing, faint browning and finger-soiling to endpapers and outer leaves, minor foxing to edges; slight rubbing, marking, and chipping to unclipped jacket, short closed tear to foot of front and rear panels: a very good copy in like jacket. Blackwell & Ruja A73.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 171308
- Title
- An Inquiry Into Meaning & Truth.
- Author
- RUSSELL, Bertrand
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: W. W. Norton & Company,
- Date Published
- 1940
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Jacket
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- Leaves
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
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