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New York: Harper & Row, 1960. Harper Torchbooks edition. Paperback. Fair. 543p. Ex-library softcover book in original binding. Spine lightly creased. Label on spine; stamps on edges, endpapers, and title page; card pocket in back. Otherwise a clean, tight book in good reading condition.

Macmillan, 1960. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. 545 pages, fifth printing. Light wear, the pages are yellowed; a good sound binding. The dust jacket has some staining, wear and tear. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Inventory No: 213946. .

Free Press, 1979. Corrected Edition. Trade Paperback. Good +. Clean and lightly used. No markings or inscriptions. Binding tight and square. Spine uncreased. Light soiling to cover.

Free Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28.
CONTENTS:
Part I: Speculative Scheme.
Part II: Discussions and Applications.
Part III: The Theory of Prehension.
Part IV: The Theory of Extension.
Part V: Final Interpretation.
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First edition; presumed first printing. The only serious problem with the book is the notations scattered throughout the book and on the back inside cover and back end-papers. Most are in pencil, some are in ink. A previous owner's name and address is stamped on the first fly-leaf page. there is some yellowing on the inside covers and end-papers. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition. tight binding, light shelf-wear on cover and cover edges, and little or no foxing or tears. We did not find any tears or foxing but we did not check every page. Binding is firm. XII + 547 pages.International sales may require incur an additional shipping charge.

New York: The Social Science Book Store, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Onwer's name and stamp on front fly, spine lettering a little dull, very good or a little better without dustwrapper.

New York: Macmillan. Original blue cloth. First Edition. Important work in twentieth-century philosophy. Previous owner's name in ink, few pages with ink notations, otherwise Very Good. No Dust Jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1929.

The Macmillan Company; 1st Edition (1929). NarFine Hardcover Original Blue cloth, Faded title on the spine, no dj. Only minimal signs of wear to the bottom of the spine. Signature on the Flyleaf otherwise Clean throughout. Strong tight binding, perfect hinges. 8.75"X5.9"X1.4". be37873

First edition, first printing. 8vo in publisher's cloth. xii, 545 pp. VG+. Very light wear. Binding is strong. Ownership signature of actor Edward Herrmann in pencil on the rear endpaper with date and place of purchase, and his small bookplate on the front pastedown. Text is clean. A very nice copy. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

No Library Distinctions, Slight toning, else content appears as unread and unblemished with blue cloth covered boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear. DJ displays moderate surface/edge wear as shown with repaired chipping and small tears.
An exceptional example. One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead's master work in philosophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant.
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NEW YORK NY: MACMILLAN CO (THE). FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1929. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. GIFFORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH DURING THE SESSION 1927-1928. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL NAVY CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES. THE BOOK IS FINE WITH JUST A TOUCH OF THE NORMAL TONING OF THE TEXT. THE GREEN PRINTED EXTERNAL PANELS OF THE D.J. ARE EVENLY TONED WITH A COUPLE TINY EDGE TEARS AT THE ENDS OF THE SPINE PANEL. A REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED COPY BOTH OF THE BOOK AND THE RARELY ENCOUNTERED D.J.. THE FRONT FLAP'S LOWER CORNER IS CLIPPED AND THERE IS A 4.50 PRICE AT THE TOP OF THAT FLAP. .

New York: Macmillan & Company, 1929. First edition of Alfred North Whitehead's magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Alfred North Whitehead on the title page. From the Library of Henry David Aiken, with his signature dated 1943 on the front free endpaper. Aiken was a student of Ralph Barton Perry's at Harvard when Whitehead also was a professor there from 1924 through 1937 and was a participant at Whiteheads' famous Cambridge Sunday afternoon open houses, which ran until Whitehead's death in 1947. Aiken was a Harvard philosophy professor from 1946 through 1965 and along with W. V. Quine, his friend and colleague, and Mortin White had shepherded the transformation of the Harvard Philosophy Department with the addition of philosophers John Rawls, Hilary Putnam, and Robert Nozick, into a strong and significant presence of Analytic Philosophy in the United States. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed by Alfred North Whitehead are scarce.