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[QUINE, W. V. O.] MAGEE, Bryan, ed. Modern British Philosophy. London: Secker and Warburg, 1971. Octavo, 234 pp. First edition. Near fine in like dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to W. V. O. Quine on the front blank, with a typed "Compliments of..." note addressed to Quine laid in as well (typed on House of Commons stationary; Magee was at the time the MP for Leyton).
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] LEWIS, David K. Convention: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1969. Octavo, 213 pp. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Some bumping to head and foot of spine; dust jacket slightly scuffed at front panel. Inscribed by the author to philosopher W. V. O. Quine on the front blank; Quine provides the foreword for the volume. David Kellogg Lewis was one of the leading analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth-century. The present volume, his first published monograph, uses concepts of game theory to analyze the nature of social conventions; it won the American Philosophical Association's first Franklin Matchette Prize for the best book published in philosophy by a philosopher under 40 years old.
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] LENNEBERG, Eric H. Biological Foundations of Language. NY: Wiley, 1967. Octavo, 489 pp. First edition. Near fine in very good dust jacket, with some slight scuffing and edgewear. From the library of philosopher W. V. O. Quine, with his ownership signature to the front blank.
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] KOHAK, Erazim. The Embers and the Stars. Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1984. Octavo, 269 pp. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket with some wear to the foot and head of spine. First edition. From the library of W. V. O. Quine, with a few notes in his hand to the rear blank, and bearing an inscription from the author to Quine on the half-title, dated in the year of publication.
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] KADISH, Mortimer R. Reason and Controversy in the Arts. Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 1968. Octavo, 282 pp. Very good in like dust jacket, slightly spine-sunned and with a few very small losses and closed tears to the top edge. First edition. From the library of W. V. O. Quine, with his ownership signature to the front blank.
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] JOURDAIN, Philip E. B. The Principle of Least Action. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1913. Octavo, 83 pp. First edition. Very good in brown paper wrappers, with some very slight soiling to front panel and some slight damage to head of spine. Dampstaining to bottom half of first few pages. From the library of W. V. O. Quine, with his ownership signature to the front blank.
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] JACOB, Francois. Le jeu des possibles: Essai sur la diversite du vivant. Paris: Fayard, 1981. Octavo, 135 pp. Very good in slightly soiled glossy white wraps. First edition. Inscribed by the philosopher son of the Nobel prize-winning biologist author to W. V. O. Quine on the front blank: "Dear Professor Quine, you once told me of your interest in La logique du vivant. Knowing your vivid interest in evolutionary ideas I thought you might enjoy this. Yours, Pierre Jacob."
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] JACOB, Francois. La logique du vivant: une histoire de l'heredite. Paris: Gallimard, 1970. Octavo, 354 pp. First edition, near fine in slightly sunned white wraps. From the library of W. V. O. Quine, with his ownership signature to the front blank.
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] HORWICH, Paul. Truth. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Octavo, 136 pp. First edition, near fine in glossy illustrated wraps. From the library of W. V. O. Quine, with his ownership signature to the front blank.
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[QUINE, W. V. O.] HALLEN, Barry; SODIPO, J. O. Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy. London: Ethnographica, 1986. Octavo, 136 pp. Fine in glossy black wrappers. First edition of Hallen's first book. Inscribed by the author on the front blank to philosopher W. V. Quine, "with gratitude for inspiration," and dated in 1994. Quine's penciled notes are sprinkled throughout the book (a surprisingly large number of them for a man who generally left the text of a book unmarked); an improvised paper bookmark marks the page in the bibliography where Quine's name appears; the rear blank bears a full five-line note, along with some private indexing.
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