Popper, Karl
Conjectures and Refutations
£240
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth, dust jacket (a few tape-repairs verso);
Valéry, Paul. Eupalinos or the Architect. Translated with a Preface by William McCausland Stewart. London: Oxford University Press, 1932. First edition in English, one of 250 copies signed by the author, small 4to, original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, front free endpaper removed causing small area of loss to front pastedown along inner hinge, front pastedown with ownership inscription and remnants of paper probably from removal of bookplate, spotting to half-title and title-page;
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original blue cloth, dust jacket (small tape-repairs verso), contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper;
Szasz, Thomas S. The Myth of Mental Illness. London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. First UK edition, first impression, 8vo, original red cloth, dust jacket (with a few small tears), ink-stamped call number and faint abrasion to verso of title-page;
and 9 others, mainly Bertrand Russell, including Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, 1930 (reprint, ownership inscription of W. H. F. Barnes, British philosopher) (13)