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First Edition (NAP, 1927 on the title page). This book was likely previously owned by the 'editor, writer, cultural diplomat, radio dance critic and dance devotee, you will Francis Mason. He lived in Rye, New York, a vicinity where I purchased many books over the years. His signed his name on the title page along with the date 1944. This book is part of the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method series, General Editor C. K. Ogden, Magdalen College, Cambridge. You can see the covers in the photos. They are pretty clean with some toning at the margins, particularly on the rear cover. And the blue of the front and rear covers has been sunned to brown on the spine. As you can see there's a horizontal tear (closed) on the spine, also a bit of loss at both spine ends. And over part of the edges between the spine and the front and rear cover some of the cloth has lifted up a little bit. On the front, it looks as if the lifted paper was glued back down, and not perfectly. There's also the small loss at the front side of the spine which you can see in the first photo. The gilt lettering and gilt design on the spine are both quite bright. There is some rub-through at the top edge of the front cover. The other edges are free of rubbing with the exception of a speck-sized spot on the rear bottom edge. Each of the four corners has a small to medium-sized spot of rub-through. The largest is visible at the top corner of the rear cover. The front cover, although it does not bow out (is flat against the textblock), is slightly lower at its center than at its sides. The spine is straight. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are very clean. Scrolling through, I found only one speck-sized spot at the margin of one page. The pages are toned, but uniformly. The inside covers and end papers have some light foxing. A little bit of it continues off the top edge of the last few pages of the book which are advertisements for books in the International Library of Psychology. There is also a tracing of a rectangular shape on both the front and rear end papers. 'London' is penciled off the top edge of the rear inside cover. That and the aforementioned signature of Mr. Mason represent the only writing to be found anywhere in the book. There are no markings in the book and there are no attachments of any kind. Due to the various imperfections I have detailed the total price of my book is well below the next least expensive Kegan, Paul first edition-- and that book is actually an ex-library book. 'Scott Buchanan was an American philosopher, educator, and foundation consultant. He is best known as the founder of the Great Books program at St. John's College, at Annapolis, Maryland. Buchanan's various projects and writings may be understood as an ambitious program of social and cultural reform based on the insight that many crucial problems arise from the uncritical use of symbolism. In this sense, his program was similar to and competed with a number of contemporary movements such as Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, Otto Neurath's 'Unity of Science' project, the semiotics of Charles Morris and the 'orthological' projects of Charles Kay Ogden. Buchanan collaborated with the latter effort for a number of years. Buchanan's own program, however, differed from these generally empiricist, positivist, or pragmatist movements by stressing what he saw as the need for reforms in the mathematical symbolism employed in modern science. Buchanan's first book, published in 1927, stated that science is 'the greatest body of uncriticized dogma we have today' and even likened science to the 'Black Arts'. For the rest of his career, Buchanan pondered ways to mitigate the variety of threats to humanity that he perceived in the unmanaged and unsupervised growth of modern science and technology.'. Seller Inventory # 005300
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