Robinson William R Editor (15 results)

Paperback. Reprint edition. Very Good/Wraps (13199) Very good condition with slightly rubbed wraps. 1974, paperback, Viking Penguin. Ownership signature on inside front cover. Stain on tail edge. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. . 372.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Thirteen short mysteries by Canadian authors, compiled for Bouchercon XXIII in Toronto. Dust jacket lightly crimped, in Brodart. Inscribed on the title page "To Marv, With warmest wishes, Peter Sellers." From the collection of Marvin Lachman. Inscribed By the Editor. …

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Edge & shelf wear. No marks in text. Sticker on back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 488 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; red upper edge. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. This collection of essays contains: Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970 by Gilbert Ryle; Propositions and Sentences by Alan R. White; Russell's Paradox and Some Others by William C. Kneale; A Diagnosis of the Liar and Other Semantical Vicious-Circle Paradoxes by Charles S. Chihara; A Refutation of an Unjustified Attack on the Axiom of Reducibility by John Myhill; On Constrained Denotation by Abraham Robinson; Is Philosophy an Idleness in Mathematics by Alice Ambrose; Post Principia by R. L. Goodstein; Russell and Modal Logic by Nicholas Rescher; Russell and Bradley on Relations by Timothy Sprigge; On Russell's Critique of Leibniz's Philosophy by Stephan Korner; On Some Relations Between Leibniz's Monadology and Transfinite Set Theory: A Complement to Russell's Thesis on Leibniz by Joel I. Friedman; The Infinite by Morris Lazerowitz; Belief as a Propositional Attitude by Alan R. White; Truth Belief and Modes of Description by R. M. Martin; The Concern About Truth by Frederick L. Will; Russell and the Form of Outer Sense by Jay F. Rosenberg; Russell's Theory of Perception by D. J. O'Connor; Russell and Schlick: A Remarkable Agreement on a Monistic Solution of the Mind Body Problem by Herbert Feigl; Self-acquaintance and the Meaning of I by G. N. A. Vesey; Some Aspects of Knowledge by George W. Roberts; Russell's Philosophical Account of Probability by Bas. C. van Fraassen; Foundations by Renford Bambrough; Russell's Ethics by W. I. Matson; Russell's Judgement on Bolshevism by Antony Flew; and Solipsistic Politics: Russell's Empiricist Liberalism by Benjamin R. Barber; followed by an index. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books sent tracked. PayPal accepted. All dust wrappers are film protected. First edition. Lectures delivered during the Abbey Theatre festival held in Dublin in August 1938. Loosely inserted cutting of review in Sunday Times, March 31 1940 by Desmond MacCarthy. Original cloth with gilt design and titling. The last few pages are marked on the foredge. Pictorial dust wrapper slightly marked and browned but with original price complete. Illustrated frontispiece of William Butler Yeats from a drawing by John S Sargent R.A. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Gray cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. Limited to 310 copies. Nearly fine. No names or bookplates. Very clean. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 59 pages 15579.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Contains an edititorial by Buttery, 'Indeterminacy in Clare's The Landrail' by Chilcott', 'John Clare's Passionate Shepherd' by Howard, 'The Limitations of Imitation: Byron, Clare and the Hebrew Melodies', 'Early Poems: The Biographical Evidence' by Robinson, 'John Clare and the Militia' by Heyes, 'John Clare and the Private Press' by Schechter' and reviews by Watson, Todd and Thornton, Cover photograph by John Baguley. Very slight edge wear to covers and trace of a price in pencil to the first page. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Baguley, John (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Gray cloth titled in gilt. Limited to 310 copies. Fine condition, some pages unopened. Prospective laid in.; quarto; 59 pages.

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, aged and lightly-creased. The letter begins: 'Four thousand thanks for the very kind manner in which you have given the notice of my dearest wife in your last number.' The notice will be extremely gratifying 'to her family and any of the many who loved her'. Mrs Planché was also a playwright, and is thought to have collaborated with her husband on a number of works.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1938. First Edition. April, 1938 [Vol XXIII, No. 2]. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/2" x 6 1/4". Photographs. Near Fine - and in this case, the near fine is just about as near to fine as it can get. No salient flaws. Very, very high grade example. Binding is, of course, sturdy. 124 numbered pp. + 41 B&W Plates, most of them photographs but some sketches & maps, three 16th-17th century engravings, + ads. Eight photographs are by the great Ansel Adams. Other serious contributors from the army of photographic and illustrative talent in this issue were: John Muir, David R. Brower, Marion R. Parsons, Norman Clyde, Ervin P. McEvoy, Leland Curtis, W.B. Wheeler, Francis P. Farquhar, Walter A. Starr, Arthur H. Blake, Howard S. Gates, Charles S. Webber, Albert J. Adams, Howard Koster, and George Shochat. Articles (see scan of contents page) by Merrill Moores, Francois E. Matthes, William E.Colby, Walter A. Starr, Carl P. Jensen, Norman Clyde, David R. Brower, W. Kenneth Davis, Elmo A. Robinson, Vernon Bailey, Joseph Grinnell and Arthur H. Blake. And as always a variety of regular and special departments. Please review all scans. l-sc2. Ansel Adams, John Muir, David R. Brower, Marion R. Parsons, Norman Clyde, Ervin P. McEvoy, Leland Curtis, W.B. Wheeler, Francis P. Farquhar, Walter Starr, Arthur Blake, Howard Gates, Charles Webber,Albert J. Adams,Howard Koster,George Shochat (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, plus some. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1936. The February, 1936 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXI, Number I. 9 1/4" x 6 3/16", staple-bound wraps but with squared-off spine, 116 pp + ads + 25 image plates. Very Good, plus some; moderate stain toward top right of cover (scan), roughening at spine bottom (scan), no other flaws, contents Fine. Topics for this issue of the always content-rich SCB are The Trinity Alps, Mount Olympus National Park, Personal Recollections of John Muir, a One-Man Diamond Hitch, The First Ascent of Mount Humphreys From the East, Skiing on the East Side of the Sierra, Wetterstein and Dolomites Climbs, Part III of the Mount Whitney Story, and of course more. Writers include editor Francis P. Farquhar; Bestor Robinson; Hatfield Goudey; Robert B. Walkinshaw; William A. Magee; Robert L. Lipman; Norman B. Livermore, Jr.; H.R. Luck; Norman Clyde; Walter Mosauer; and Glen Dawson. Contributing photographers: Ansel Adams, David R. Brower; Richard M. Leonard; Homer D. Erwin; J.R. Dempster; Cedric Wright; W.E. Dassonville; Everett Griffin; W.W. Campbell; Anders Angstrom; and C.G. Abbot. Hours of the Club's best. For the collector, in collectible condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box; no bag. LSC2.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 295 pages. 10.50x7.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: As New. 2 Volume set, 4th edition, large blue hardcovers are clean & bright, square, only very mild shelfwear, no markings found, a very nice set, Priority & Intl shipping is NOT possible due to size/weight.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine. Yes, Fine. So many decades old; this condition is rare. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1940. The February, 1940 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXV, Number 1. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), printed perfect-bound wraps, 172 pp. (138 pp.+ 2 + 32 plates). Fine; no flaws. Contents immaculate. See all images. This issue features a piece on Albert Marshall, as well as four of his mountain wilderness drawings; a piece by Matterhorn specialist David Starr Jordan and three portrait photos of him; 2 Ansel Adams photos; Numerous photos by Cedric Wright and Henry E. Timby; photos as well by John Dyer, David R.Brower, Richard M. Leonard, Francis P. Farquhar, & Allen Estes; a ranking of Yosemite climbs by difficulty class; also the 1st Ascent of Shiprock; the 1st High Horse Trip; John Muir Trail; Matterhorn; Early Popocatepetl Ascents; Roping Down; Tripping High; Robert Martin Price; Climber's Guide; Sierras of the South; a lot more. See scan of contents page. Writers of the above-mentioned pieces and others include: Francis P. Farquhar (Editor); Bestor Robinson; David R. Brower; Anita Day Hubbard; Charlotte E. Mauk; Theodore S. Solomons; Richard M. Leonard; Blanche Stallings; Weldon F. Heald; David Starr Jordan; Henry R. Wagner; Cedric Wright; and William E. Colby. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LNG3. Ansel Adams; Cedric Wright; Henry E. Timby; John Dyer, David R.Brower, Richard M. Leonard, Francis P. Farquhar, Allen Estes (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 4th edition. 2100 pages. 9.25x11.75x4.50 inches. In Stock.