Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages, hardcover. Green cloth covers have some light brown staining and edge wear, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book focuses on traditional logic, emphasizing the "matter" and "content" of thought over formal structure. It covers the three acts of the mind: simple apprehension (conception), judgment, and reasoning (syllogisms). Key themes include the role of definition, genus, species, and the relationship between language and knowledge. Previous owner's signature is present in blue pen on the inside front cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34326
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear and chipping, creasing, some staining. Small pen notations on back of jacket. Name of previous owner in pen in front end papers, some pen marking in text. Some foxing, staining in front end papers. Tight copy otherwise. Vol. I only.
Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 8th Pr., 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages, soft cover. Green paper covers have minor edge wear, with some discoloration on the rear, but they are still clean and bright overall, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book brings logic to the most unruly of disciplines, literary interpretation. By demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned examination provides a theoretical foundation for a discipline that is fundamental to virtually all humanistic studies. Previous owner's signature is on the front end page, and some underlining in black pen is present throughout. Record # 34298
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages, hardcover. Tan cloth boards have some light staining, but are otherwise in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This collection of original philosophical papers confronts the future of metaphysical thought. Part I of the book scans the contemporary spectrum of metaphysical orientations, from linguistic analysis and process-philosophy, through phenomenology, existentialism, and scholasticism, to neo-Hegelianism and oriental thought. Part II focuses on the relationship between metaphysics and various areas of human concern: language, logic, science, value, society, and religion. Clean copy. Record # 34356
Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essay regarding ontology; the study of the general structure of properties, actions, and things. Light fading and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine and corners. Yellow toning to top text block. Heavy and scattered age spotting/toning to text block edge, as well as to the front endpapers, flyleaf, half and title page. Otherwise unmarked. Slight bow to front boards, barely perceptible. A tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson University Library, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 133 pages. Some chipping and creasing on dust jacket covers. Rear dust jacket flap creased and a little chipped. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Minor foxing on top edge. Underlining and notes in pencil throughout first half of book. Good reading copy.
Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 192 pages, like new in a near fine dust jacket.
Hardcover. New Haven, VT, Yale Univ. Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with sunning to spine of dust jacket, chipping and edge wear to dust jacket.
 "Logic: As A Human Instrument by: Parker, Francis H. Veatch, Henry B.")
 "Principles of Logic, The, Vol. I Bradley, F.H.")
 "Validity in Interpretation by: Hirsch, E. D. Jr.")
 "The Future of Metaphysics by: Editor: Wood, Robert E.")
 "Logic of Millennial Thought, The - Eighteenth Century New England Davidson, James West")