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The Case for Animal Rights

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 425 pp., xvii. '1' in number line. Charcoal cloth with iridescent hot pink lettering on spine. Contents divided into 9 Chapters: (1) "Animal Awareness"; (2) "The Complexity of Animal Awareness"; (3) "Animal Welfare"; (4) "Ethical Thinking and Theory"; (5) "Indirect Duty Views"; (6) "Direct Duty Views"; (7) "Justice and Equality"; (8) "The Rights View"; (9) "Implications of the Rights View"; Epilogue, pp. 399-400; Notes, pp. 401-417; Index, pp. 419-425. Glossy dustwrapper of multi-shades of gray with an illustration of Stefan Lochner's "St. Jerome in His Study" on most all of front cover. Title lettering in maroon and white letters across top front cover, just above Author name lettering in smaller white letters. Hint of horizontal curling across top edges, due to dw riding too high on book (truly nugatory), and 1/4" closed tear up inside front panel from bottom left corner (now backed with Archival tape): describes worse than it is, but there you have it: Now in Brodart mylar which forgives sins graciously. Book itself is looks little used: still strong spine (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names; NO rubbing wear (dw did its job). Clean text. Several News clippings laid in (NO offsetting): (1) "Baboon Tests Are Halted" Boston Globe (9 23 1985); (2) "Pig bred for research" Boston Globe (2 3 1986); (3)"New York Has a Responsibility Toward Its Abandoned Animals" NewYorkTimes Letter to the Editor from Lia Albo; (3) "Conservationist Fills a Tall Order: Saving the Giraffes" NYT (4 7 1986) by Sheila Rule; (4) "Studies Link Misled Salmon and Acid Rain" NYT (4 22 1986); (5) "Preventing a cruel death for lobsters"/"A method that will kill lobster instantly", Letters to the Editor, Boston Globe 8 16 1986 by Mary Jane Gorton/Stephen B. Ronan; (6) "A push in behalf of lab animals" BG (12 22 1986) by Dianne Dumanski; (7) "On the Deaths of Pets, Lost or Abandoned" BG, Letter to the Editor by Douglas T. Hess; (8) "Senator [Mark O. Hatfield, OR] Asks Halt To Animal Patents" NYT (5 14 1987) by Keith Schneider; (9) "The need for animal lab tests" BG (5 27 1987) by Jerome Y. Lettvin.The way to read a Philosophy and Animal Rights Classic. Nº de ref. del artículo: 002738

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