introduction john foster (21 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. special edition. 144 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. special edition. 144 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. special edition. 144 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the front endpaper with an inscription. This book is in Very Good- condition. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some toning and tidemarking to the rectangular pastedown label on the front cover, along with some light edge wear, rubbing and beginning fraying to the corners and spine ends. The text pages are in mostly clean bright condition, but there is light tidemarking to the bottom corners (and up at an angle about three inches from the bottom of the pages. Included in the text are a series of black and white photographs of the Sierras (unattributed, but possibly by the author). "The author of Songs and Scenes has a right to speak for the High Sierras. He has made them his own in the deepest and truest sense. He comes, not as a sightseer, a casual visitor, come to be impreswsed and to write those impressions for other, casual, short-term visitors." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo bound in yellow cloth. Frontispiece illustration. Condition: soiling to binding; red ink mark to front cover; ownership markings to 1st free endpaper; else good. 298 pages.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. updated edition. 552 pages. 8.25x5.50x8.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 624 pages. In Near Fine condition with a Near Fine condition dust jacket. Drawn black and white spine with black lettering. Signed flat by six contributors on title page. Contains a loose first edition certificate and loose summary card between title page and front end-page. Shelved in hallwat. 1382476. Special Collections.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 448 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external and internal wear. Previous owner's name written inside. Occassional underlinings on text. Slightly indented spine. Mild edge wear.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. updated edition. 552 pages. 8.25x5.50x8.25 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condición: New. Brand new gift quality hardcover in jacket oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 358 Pp. Blue Boards, Spine Lettered In Silver. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Includes A Long Ayer Bibliography. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (1910 - 1989), Usually Cited As A. J. Ayer, Was An English Philosopher Known For His Promotion Of Logical Positivism, Particularly In His Books Language, Truth, And Logic (1936) And The Problem Of Knowledge (1956). He Was Educated At Eton College And The University Of Oxford, After Which He Studied The Philosophy Of Logical Positivism At The University Of Vienna. From 1933 To 1940 He Lectured On Philosophy At Christ Church, Oxford. During The Second World War Ayer Was A Special Operations Executive And Mi6 Agent. He Was Grote Professor Of The Philosophy Of Mind And Logic At University College London From 1946 Until 1959, After Which He Returned To Oxford To Become Wykeham Professor Of Logic At New College. He Was President Of The Aristotelian Society From 1951 To 1952 And Knighted In 1970. He Was Known For His Advocacy Of Humanism, And Was The Second President Of The British Humanist Association (Now Known As Humanists Uk). Professor A. J. Ayer Was President Of The Homosexual Law Reform Society For A Time; He Remarked That "As A Notorious Heterosexual I Could Never Be Accused Of Feathering My Own Nest.".

Condición: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original black line illustrated grey cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine [faded] and to the front cover, decorated end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 184 printed pages of text with 3 tissue guarded illustrations plus 7 page publishers illustrated catalogue. In Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. FEMINISM & FEMINISTS.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 224 pages. 11.75x10.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. updated edition. 552 pages. 8.50x5.50x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Large 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt decoration (Victoria ship logo) and tooled borders. Gilt titled spine. xxx, 192 pp. Frontispiece map. Clean and bright. Just very light occasional spotting. Binding pristine. VG+.

Second Nashville, Tennessee edition. 334, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 15.75cm x L 10.25cm. Original dull green cloth with some light mottling and staining; spine's gilt stamped floral decoration and lettering slightly dulled and flaked but still easily legible. Mild toning and soiling to edges; endpapers toned; past owner's name and personal book number written in antiquarian ink on front free endpaper with associated ink impression onto opposing front pastedown; pencil signatures of same owner on both front flyleaves; green powdered substance adhered to rear endpapers as well as on rear flyleaf and opposing publisher's advertising page; mostly light foxing to interior leaves; top corner of pages 271-272 creased from past fold-down. Binding is firm. A good+ copy. Immediately following last text page 334 is an unpaged single leaf (i.e. two pages) featuring list and prices of various M.E. Church, South publications. English Baptist minister John Foster was a fairly prolific essayist with this posthumous edition featuring a "Biographical Introduction" regarding Foster on pages 7-12 by Thomas O. Summers (1812-1882). One of the great theologians and intellects of the Methodist Church, Reverend Summers was elected in 1850 by the general conference as editor of all church books and tracts. From 1866 to 1878 he was editor of the weekly newspaper [Nashville] Christian Advocate. Summers was professor of systemic theology at Vanderbilt University beginning in 1874 and was dean of the theological faculty from 1875 until his death in 1882. Evidently a scarce antebellum Nashville, Tennessee imprint for OCLC cites copies at only three member institutions. Bibliographical reference: Ronald R. Allen TENNESSEE IMPRINTS 1791-1875 #3971. There was a preceding 1855 Nashville edition (OCLC also citing only three holding institutions; Allen #3651) as well as later Nashville editions in 1873 (Allen #7955) and 1883.

Cloth Boards. Introduction by Samuel T. Sheppard and Sir William Foster Ilustrador. 8vo, pp. xxx, 192, Index, two-tone frontis, maps one folded, edges uncut, mior foxing rear endpapers, original gilt decorated cloth boards, edges and spine lightly sunned, few small marks spine, good. The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. LXXII.

Softcover. Condición: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 168 Seiten/pages, illustrated throughout - Borrowing its name from a French stationary manufacturer, the artist collective Claire Fontaine was formed in Paris in 2004. Its works analyze the crisis of individuality in contemporary culture using video, installation, sculpture and text. This publication presents various works that combat the poverty and passivity of contemporary politics.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. updated edition. 552 pages. 8.50x5.50x8.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.