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Softcover. xvi, 354 pp. A joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Softcover. LCC: 2001006142 Very good condition; on covers: touches of wear on edges, and a few light creases; traces of wear on bottom edges of papers, and tiny losses of black color on covers.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Binding is solid. Pages have some staining along top-edge and fore-edge, as well as some creased corners. Cover is in good repair.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. Binding is solid. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover has a few minor stains and a bit of wear along edges and corners.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Binding is solid. Pages are clean and unmarked, bottom and top corners of pages slightly creased. Cover is in good repair.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Binding is solid. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover is in good repair.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 176pp. Small scrape on rear wrapper, near fine. Contemporary anthology from 100 American poets' favorite poems.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. 176pp. Small sticker abrasion on front wrapper, near fine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in and addressed to contributor Daniel Hoffman. Contemporary anthology from 100 American poets' favorite poems.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. - contributors include Hemingway Elizabeth Bishop Philip Caputo Hart Crane Jim Harrison Thomas McGuane James Merrill Wallace Stevens Hunter S. Thompson Tennessee Williams, 230 pages, signed on the title page, faint reader crease down spine, but still near fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First editions. 628pp (consecutively paginated). Near fine in very good dust jackets with light foxing and faint interior stains. A highly selective collection of about 500 letters from politicians, publishers, friends, chance acquaintances and member of the Yeats family.

Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. Xl, 199 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. A Bright, Tight, Clean And Near New Example With Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners. Striking Bookplate By Williams, Signed W, Of A Lamp And A Hammer And Sickle, With Text All In Capital Letters "So Far As The So-Called Right Of Property Is Consistent With An Enlightened Social Ethics We Claim That Right With Respect To This Our Book Katherine Adams Williams Donald Cary Williams", With Typed Line Along Foot Of Bookplate "Publisher$::: 10/32". Williams [1899-1983] Was Chairman Of The Department Of Philosophy At Harvard University, And Was One Of America's Great Philosophers. His Wife Katherine Adams Williams, Phd [University Of California, 1928] Was A Professor Of Psychology At Radcliffe. "Many Philosophers Have Admitted The Existence Of Abstract Particulars, Properties That Occur As Particulars, Or, As Donald Williams Dubbed Them, 'Tropes'. Anyone Who Accepts Peirce'S Type/Token Distinction As Holding For The Colors, For Example, Accepts Instances Of Properties As Particulars. Anyone Who, Like Locke, Adheres To A Substance-Property Ontology, But Also Insists That All Things Are Always Only Particular, Affirms That Properties Are Particulars - That Is, Tropes. What Marks Off A Trope Metaphysic From Others Is To Be Found In What The Ontology Denies, Rather Than In What It Affirms. A Trope Metaphysic Gets Its Importance From The Primacy That It Accords To Them. Its Bite Comes From The Claim That These Are The Basic Elements, The 'Alphabet Of Being', As Donald Williams Has It. This Claim Involves As An Essential Element The Denial Of The Existence Of Genuine Universals. This Is A First And Most Significant Dimension Of Economy. Further, In Williams' Theory, The Primacy Of Tropes Is Coupled With A Bundle Theory Of Complex Concrete Particulars. So The Theory Also Involves The Denial Of The Reality Of Substances As Substrata Bearing The Properties That Inhere In Them, Or Acting As An Essential Principle Of Individuation. Here Is A Second Significant Dimension Of Economy. This Search For Ontic Economy Drives Trope Theory. Williams'S Ontology Admits But A Single Basic Category, The Abstract Particular Or Trope. It Is Worth Emphasizing That This Position Is Not Any Form Of Nominalism, Where That Term Implies The Denial Of The Existence Of Properties (And Relations). Quite The Contrary: Trope Theory Affirms That Reality Consists In Nothing But (Monadic Or Polyadic) Properties. Rather Than A Nominalism, This View Is Better Described As A Strict Particularism - It Does Not Deny That There Are Properties, But Denies That Properties Are Universals. Nor Does Trope Theory Deny The Existence Of Simple Or Complex Individuals. It Does Not Admit Substance As A Distinct Category, But Individual Basic Tropes Are Substances In The Human Sense - They Are Capable Of Independent Existence. They Do Not Require An Underlying Substratum To Bear Them. It Is One Of This Ontology'S Great Attractions That It Can In This Way Dispense With The Inherence Relation, Together With All Its Attendant Difficulties. In This Classic Paper ["The Elements Of Being"], Donald Williams Pioneers The Trope Metaphysic, Providing Us, In Beguiling Rhetoric, And A Most Admirable Independence Of Mind, An Original View Of A Perennial Crux In Metaphysics". -Keith Campbell, Emeritus Professor Of Philosophy At The University Of Sidney, Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Open Court, 1932. First edition. Very good in very good unclipped dust jacket. Paul Carus Lectures Third Series. Paul Carus pulled together some of the finest minds of the times, through the Open Court Publishing Company and his philosophy journal, The Monist. The goals of Open Court were to provide a forum for the discussion of philosophy, science, and religion, and to make philosophical classics widely available by making them affordable.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + DJ. 2nd Edition. Xv, 718 Pp. Magenta Cloth, , Stamped In Dark Red And Gilt. Stated Second Edition, 1951, Revised. Book Fine, Medical Collector's Bookplate. Dj With Light Wear, A Few Short Tears, No Fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp. viii, [1], 2-568. Volume Two, 1857, January through December complete. Includes table of contents. Bound together in full leather of the period. Two numbers have engraved frontispieces. Binding is worn and scuffed, but all present. No previous owner's names or marks. Some light soiling and minor foxing. Early medical periodical. A very scarce bound twelve month set.