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First Edition of Alfred North Whitehead's Classic Text Process and Reality; Signed by Him
WHITEHEAD, Alfred North.
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology.
New York: Macmillan & Company, 1929.
First edition of Alfred North Whitehead's magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Alfred North Whitehead on the title page. From the Library of Henry David Aiken, with his signature dated 1943 on the front free endpaper. Aiken was a student of Ralph Barton Perry's at Harvard when Whitehead also was a professor there from 1924 through 1937 and was a participant at Whiteheads' famous Cambridge Sunday afternoon open houses, which ran until Whitehead's death in 1947. Aiken was a Harvard philosophy professor from 1946 through 1965 and along with W. V. Quine, his friend and colleague, and Mortin White had shepherded the transformation of the Harvard Philosophy Department with the addition of philosophers John Rawls, Hilary Putnam, and Robert Nozick, into a strong and significant presence of Analytic Philosophy in the United States. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Books signed by Alfred North Whitehead are scarce.
Price: $11,500.00 Item Number: 34005
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First Edition of America’s Great Depression "a staple of modern economic literature"; Signed By Murray Rothbard
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
America’s Great Depression.
New York: MacMillan Company, 1973.
First edition of Rothbard's classic treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 23068
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"This One in me knows the universe of the many": Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Rabindranath Tagore
TAGORE, Rabindranath.
Creative Unity.
London: MacMillan & Company , 1925.
First edition, later printing. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "Rabindranath Tagore Feb. 26, 1932." In very good condition with some wear to the extremities and to the side front panel. Books signed by Tagore are rare.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 22096
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COFFIN, Robert P. Tristam.
Poems for a Son with Wings.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1945.
First edition. Inscribed by the author, "For Frangeon Jones Fellow poet and friend Robert P. Tristam Coffin". Coffin has also added a drawing a seaside home with a pine tree. Octavo. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 1989
