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Allen, Towne & Heath Inc, NY , 1948. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Historical novel about the life of Tchaikovsky written by the son of Thomas Mann.

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1983. 2nd edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. "The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented 'crisis in the foundations of mathematics', featuring a world-famous paradox (Russell's Paradox), a challenge to 'classical' mathematics from a world-famous mathematician (the 'mathematical intuitionism' of Brouwer), a new foundational school (Hilbert's Formalism), and the profound incompleteness results of Kurt Godel. In the same period, the cross-fertilization of mathematics and philosophy resulted in a new sort of 'mathematical philosophy', associated most notably (but in different ways) with Bertrand Russell, W. V. Quine, and Godel himself, and which remains at the focus of Anglo-Saxon philosophical discussion." [Pub. Info] Mathematicians also include Gotleib Frege, Rudolph Carnap, Henri Poincrne, and others. 600 pages. There is a protective mylar cover. 2ND EDITION.

Columbia University Press, NY , 1986. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. "Arthur Danto, a thinker of great scope and wide interests, has contributed to many aspects of contemporary philosophy. The broad range of his work is indicated by his previous books, which includes 'The Transfiguration of the Commonplace', which concerns a theme in which Danto has long been interested: the relationship between art and philosophy. 'The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art' delves further into that long and complex relationship. It brings the strategies of philosophical analysis to the resolution of conceptual questions in contemporary art, and seeks to explain the deep ties, historical and theoretical, between philosophy and art." [Dust Jacket] STATED 1ST EDITION.

Oxford University Press, 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. "No one was better qualified than Mr. Carritt to introduce students to that most perplexing and most fascinating of philosophical problems--what is beauty."" [Review - Times (London) Literary Supplement] Oxford 334 pages; 74 entries by prominent philosophers. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING.

Bonanza Books, 1951. Hardcover. Fine. "Here you will find the whole vivid story in pictures of the gallant, heroic slice of history that was the Confederate States of America….you will find the best of the great wealth of illustrations of the Confederacy….Here are rare Brady photographs, Sheppard sketches, Chapman oils, Volck engravings; here are photographs and on-the-spot drawings by unknown Confederate soldiers, never before reproduced in any book."" [Dust Jacket] 288 pages. There is a protective mylar cover.

Charles Scribner's Sons , 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.