Word and Object. by QUINE, Willard Van Orman - 1960

New York: The Technology Press of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,, 1960. First edition, first printing, presentation copy from the author to his elder brother Robert Cloyd Quine and his wife Rosalie, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Rosalie & Bob with love. Van". "In 1941 Quine turned to the modalities, the notions of necessity and possibility, and argued that they are hopelessly unclear... Gradually, Quine strengthened his arguments against the modalities, until in Word and Object (1960) he showed that, when modality is combined with quantification, modal distinctions collapse. That is, everything that is possible is true, and everything that is true is necessary" (ANB). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. Light sunning to spine, minor soiling to spine and top edge, light discolouration to front endpapers and pp. 1/2. A very good copy.