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Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: philosophy metaphysics literature P F Strawson
From Darkness to Light (Abridged Edition of the Anthology)
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) foxing; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1964
KEYWORDS: Victor Gollancz literature anthologies abridgments religion theology
The Elusive Mind: Based on the First Series of the Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh 1966-1968
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PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1969
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature Gifford lectures H D Lewis
The Urantia Book
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PUBLISHER: Urantia Foundation 1995
KEYWORDS: spirituality theology religion philosophy literature
The Ordinary Life of Jacominus Gainsborough
FIRST EDITION, lg quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Post Wave Children's Books 2025
KEYWORDS: modern first editions children's literature picture books fiction Rebecca Dautremer
The Long Forgetting: Post-Colonial Literary Culture in New Zealand
INSCRIBED & SIGNED (TWICE) BY THE AUTHOR, super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand post-colonial history literature literary culture Patrick Evans signed
Philosophy of Religion: Towards a More Humane Approach
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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: philosophy religion literature John Cottingham
The Scone in New Zealand Literature, and Other Essays 1990-2020
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PUBLISHER: Blythswood Press 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa literature literary essays collection anthologies Tony Simpson social commentary
Rangikura
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PUBLISHER: Victoria University of Wellington Press 2021
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand writers poets authors literature poetry verse Tayi Tibble poems
The Gramophone Room
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PUBLISHER: Department of English, University of Auckland 1983
KEYWORDS: New Zealand short fiction poetry poems verse literature anthologies collections
Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time
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PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: American literature literary studies
Symbolic Logic: An Introduction
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 238pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (minor fading & rubbing to spine, moderate chipping to edges- minor loss, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Ronald Press 1952
KEYWORDS: first editions philosophy logic symbolic literature Frederic Brenton Fitch
The Problem of Induction and Its Solution
Octavo, black buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 125pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1968
KEYWORDS: philosophy induction literature Jerrold J Katz
Philosophy and Computer Science
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xi + 243pp, VG (moderate curling to cover edges, minro chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling/ink markings to page edges)
PUBLISHER: M E Sharpe 1999
KEYWORDS: philosophy computer science literature Timothy R Colburn
Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited
Super octavo, white & purple light card wrappers, purple & yellow lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 403pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's initials in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature physics Bertrand Russell essays
A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 451pp, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light fading & moderate tanning to spine & edges, sl creasing & chipping to egdes, minor general soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: first editions philosophy literature Ludwig Wittgenstein companion tractatus
Essays on Wittgenstein's Tractatus
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 414pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning& foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate fading & scuffing to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, sl tanning & soiling, 2.5cm clsoed tear to base of spine)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1966
KEYWORDS: philosophy literature essays Ludwig Wittgenstein first editions
Kurt Godel: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
UK FIRST EDITION, SCARCE! PENCIL ANNOTATIONS OF NZ PHILOSOPHER G J REID, octavo, light green/grey buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, viii + 72pp, VG (moderate staining & discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label & prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light cracking to gutters, aforementioned annotation throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate to heavy scuffing to spine, 3cm tear to base of spine- tidy archival tape repair, moderate chafing & soiling, minor tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Oliver & Boyd 1962
KEYWORDS: UK first editions philosophy literature English translations Kurt Godel principia mathematica
The Anatomy of the Soul: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Mind
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 146pp, VG (light bruising & tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occassional pencil markings) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning to spine & rear cover, minro tanning & foxing to flaps, minor creasing & chipping to edges- 1cm closed tear to head of spine)
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1973
KEYWORDS: first editions literature essays philosophy Anthony Keith
The Handbook to the Bay of Plenty and Guide to the Hot Lakes, the Boiling Springs, the Healing Baths, the Geysers, the Intermitting Fountains &c in the Rotomahana and Taupo Districts, (Province of Auckland) New Zealand
Ex-library- stiffened boards utillizing original cover, octavo, black hand-written lettering to spine, marbled eps, large folding map to prelims- tidy, 20pp + 18pp ads to rear, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing & bruising to extrems, moderate scuffing & foxing/soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Langbridge & Edgcumbe 1875
KEYWORDS: New Zealand historical travel literature guides Rotomahana Taupo hot lakes thermal pools