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Original cloth 29cm. Zustand: Wie neu. First edition. XII, 181 pages. With illustrations. In EXCELLENT shape. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. :: An Appreciation of Oswald Bruce Cooper, with characteristic Examples of his Art in Lettering, Type designing & such of his Writings as reveal the Cooperian Typographic Gospel. :: Bound in rose-colored cloth, front board bears decorative illustration of author's initials in gilt. Title and publisher lettered upon spine, also in gold. Top edge text block rose. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 286 x 216 millimeters). 183 pages. Condition: Very Good. Small stains upon cloth of boards. Interior pages age-toned. Beautiful, large book - great care was taken to honor this gentleman and his works.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American Printing Thus. 236 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black. Stated First Printing, But Actually First American Edition. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $6.00 At Bottom Of Front Flap, Price Label At Top Of Front Flap. Reason Demands That Science Be Used To Understand And Improve Society And In Particular Its Institutions And Government; But The Demand Is Unreasonable, As Science Has Boundless Universal Audience And Participation And Review And Analysis And Criticism Subject To Explicit Standards, Whereas Society Does Not- Its Standards Are Vaguely Philosophical But Essentially Clan-Specific And Religious. To The Everlasting Surprise Of Society, Its Standards Are Occasionally Revised By Popular Sentiment When Experience, Including Some Consideration Of Science, Is Overwhelmingly Indicative Of Its Failings. The Academicians Here Assert Some Scientific Expertise In General, Which Is Not The Way Scientific Expertise Works In Social Concerns.

orig.cloth. 23x15cm, ix,125 pp Contents: Evidence in Human History; The Convergence of Customs; Psychology & Ethnology; Myths in the Making; The Indo-European Kinship System; Buddha & Devadata; Many-Armed Gods; Rotation. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.