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1959731Princeton: Association for Symbolic Logic 1959. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSION IN PRISTINE ORIGINAL WRAPS OF SAUL KRIPKE'S SEMINAL FIRST PAPER ON MODAL LOGIC "A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic". The paper presents Kripke's important ideas on the semantics of modal logic or the logic of modal notions like necessity and possibility. Included are all 4 Journal issues for 1959 one of which is inclusive of abstracts of 3 other papers Kripke sent to the Journal. <br /> <br /> "Universally hailed" for this work in this paper Kripke both proves the formal completeness of modal logic supplemented by first-order quantifiers and the sign of equality and "creates a semantics now called Kripke semantics" Hurley Logic: The Essentials 217. Kripke semantics "is a formals semantics for non-classical logic systems. first conceived for modal logics and later adapted to intuitionistic logic and other non-classical systems. The discovery of Kripke semantics was a breakthrough in the theory of non-classical logics because the model theory of such logics was almost non-existent before Kripke algebraic semantics existed but were considered 'syntax in disguise'. Wikipedia. <br /> <br /> Saul Kripke grew up in Omaha Nebraska and in 1959 he mailed this paper to The Journal of Symbolic Logic. As the story goes the Kripke wrote his completeness theorem in modal logic at age 17; the paper was sent out for comments to among a number of others the head of the Harvard mathematics department. This person then wrote Kripke urging him to apply for a job at Harvard. The reply he received read: "My mother said that I should finish high school and go to college first" ibid. <br /> <br /> Kripke's initial intuitive idea was that a proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all possible worlds. In this paper Kripke begins by stating: "The present paper attempts to state and prove a completeness theorem for the system S5 supplemented by first-order quantifiers and the sign of equality" Kripke JSL 241 1959 1. He then notes: ""The basis of the informal analysis which motivated these definitions is that a proposition is necessary if and only if it is true in all "possible worlds". It is not necessary for our present purposes to analyze the concept of a "possible world" any further. . In modal logic however we wish to know not only about the 6 real world but about other conceivable worlds" Kripke 2 <br /> <br /> Shortly Kripke then wrote "In trying to construct a definition of universal logical validity it seems plausible to assume not only that the universe of discourse may contain an arbitrary number of elements and that predicates may be assigned any given interpretations in the actual world but also that any combination of possible worlds may be associated with the real world with respect to some group of predicates. In other words it is plausible to assume that no further restrictions need be placed on D G and K except the standard one that D be non-empty. This assumption leads directly to our definition of universal validity." Kripke 3. <br /> <br /> The December issue of the Journal is also included as it contains abstracts of other Kripke papers received by the Journal in 1959: "Distinguished Constituents" "Semantical Analysis of Modal Logic" "The Problem of Entailment". Also included are the three other issues of The Journal of Symbolic Logic from 1959 this to make a complete set. All four issues are in near fine condition. <br /> <br /> Saul Kripke 1940- is an American philosopher and logician who was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 2001. He is best known for five major contributions to philosophy beginning with this paper the starting point for Kripke Semantics. In 1962 Kripke graduated from Harvard University where he remained until 1968 first as a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and then as a lecturer. Subsequently his 1970 lectures "Naming and Necessity" was a focal point for restructuring the philosophy of language. Now associated with Princeton additional areas of note include his contributions to set theory his theory of truth and his interpretation of Wittgenstein's work. CONDITION & DETAILS: Four first edition first impression issues in original wraps. New Jersey: The Association for Symbolic Logic. Octavo. 10 x 7 inches; 250 x 150mm. All four issues are in near fine condition both inside and out. Association for Symbolic Logic paperback
196625Paris: Maeght Editeur 1966. Limited Edition. Limp boards in slip case. Near fine/very good. Number 149 of a limited edition of 300 with original lithograph signed and numbered by Steinberg laid in. French language. Text by Michel Butor and Harold Rosenberg photographs by D'Inge Morath. Oblong 4to. Pictorial dust jacket over limp boards in acetate sleeve. Unpaginated. Numerous full page illustrations the majority in color by Steinerg.Small loss to top edge of acetate sleeve otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Original slip case in very good condition. Maeght Editeur books
196625Paris: Maeght Editeur 1966. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 149 of a limited edition of 300 with original lithograph signed and numbered by Steinberg laid in. French language. Text by Michel Butor and Harold Rosenberg photographs by D'Inge Morath. Oblong 4to. Pictorial dust jacket over limp boards in acetate sleeve. Unpaginated. Numerous full page illustrations the majority in color by Steinerg.Small loss to top edge of acetate sleeve otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Original slip case in very good condition. Maeght Editeur hardcover
201223256Berlin Germany: Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin 2012. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Berlin Germany: Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin 2012. Hardcover. As New/None As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 296 pages. Retrospective Monograph. The single most valuable book on the photographic art and achievement of Saul Leiter ever published. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions including its Facsimile Reissued Edition which was released as a memorial tribute after Saul Leiter died the following year on November 23 2013. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out upon publication. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Kehrer Verlag: Oversize-volume format. Red cloth boards with black titles embossed on the cover and spine as issued. Photographs by Saul Leiter. Essays by various contributors. Pictorial slipcase. Printed on pristine-white thick coated for the images and uncoated for the text stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ as issued. Presents in its First Edition format "Saul Leiter: Retrospektive". The definitive retrospective on the greatest photographic re-discovery of our time. "Nearly 40 years went by before his extraordinary photography was re-discovered" Publisher's blurb. That is not at all surprising because Saul Leiter gave street photography a fresh new look that differed from ALL of the other great street photographers of his - and our - time. Instead of the gritty hard-edged "in-your-face" imagery of Garry Winogrand or Martin Parr today Leiter's "look" is melancholy ephemeral and lyrical deploying a consistently understated palette to convey some of the most sublime images of The Street we will ever see. Saul Leiter understood that photography is the exact opposite of painting because he was good at both : Painting is about a "vision" that one realizes on canvas. Photography is about developing and mastering a "look" - by taking thousands of photographs even if or because one is Saul Leiter - that somehow becomes identifiably and uniquely one's own. Precisely because anyone can take photographs a distinctive look is much harder if not altogether impossible to achieve than one thinks for most practicing photographers who must inevitably fall back on the established look of a particular genre whether it's portraiture street photography or the nude. The one great contribution of photography is to re-define the visual arts through its "look" aesthetics instead of through "vision" the counter-productive and exhausted idea it inherited from painting. Instead Saul Leiter - and the truly great photographers such as Avedon on the one hand and Robert Frank on the other - found and perfected a look that is uniquely theirs and theirs alone which all other derivative photographers imitate at their peril. An absolute "must-have" title for Saul Leiter collectors. This copy is very prominently neatly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Saul Leiter. It is signed directly on the page itself not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean crisp and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century and our time. A fine collectible copy. SEE ALSO OTHER SAUL LEITER TITLE IN OUR CATALOG. ISBN 3868282580. Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin hardcover
2016x-0198758324Oxford Univ Pr 2016. Hardcover. New. 2580 pages. 9.75x6.75x4.50 inches. Oxford Univ Pr hardcover
1973187309Paris: Maeght Éditeur 1973. First edition with 3 original lithographs number 40 of 150 signed by the artist and printed on vélin d'Arches. This issue of Derriére le Miroir Number 205 was published to celebrate two exhibitions of Steinberg's work held in 1971 and 1973 at the Maeght Gallery in Paris. Folio. With 20 lithographs 11 in colour in 3 sizes: covers 38 x 57 cm full-page 38 x 28.5 cm or double-page 38 x 55.5 cm. Original lithographed wrappers lettering to front cover in black sheets loosely inserted as issued. All housed in the publisher's blue boards with lettering to spine in black with matching slipcase paper label to front lettered in black. Faint offsetting to a few leaves from lithographs. A near-fine copy. hardcover
2013DADAX1441911375Springer 2013-10-15. 3rd ed. 2013. hardcover. New. 8.00x3.90x10.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
2013SONG1441911375Springer 2013-10-15. 3rd ed. 2013. hardcover. Used: Good. 8.00x3.90x10.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
2017SBG000153Howard Greenberg Gallery & Lumiere Press 2017. First Edition. Hardcover in slipcase. New. Howard Greenberg Gallery & Lumiere Press hardcover
2015DBS-9781680953428Delve 2015. 1St. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
2015DBS-9781680953428Delve 2015. 1St. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
1966AEIMSTEI0Paris: Maeght Editeur 1966. 1966. oblong folio. pp. 201. original signed & numbered lithograph loosely inserted as issued. illus. throughout mostly full-page colour. limp bds. dw. bit cockled. acetate dw tail of spine trifle chipped. First Edition Limited to 300 numbered copies. Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. [Paris]: Maeght Editeur, [1966]. Hardcover
108535Early 20th century. . Lithograph signed and titled in the plate framed and glazed; some browning and cracks to mount. Plate size: 24 x 19 cm framed size: 45.5 x 39.5 cm.<br /> Saul Raskin 1878-1966 was a Russian born Jewish-American artist writer and educator best known for his depiction of Jewish subjects. He was a member of the 'American Watercolor Society' the 'Society of American Etchers' the 'Audubon Artists' and the 'New York Watercolor Club'. Raskin was a Zionist and made many trips to the land later - The State of Israel and stayed at the kibbutz Ramat Yochanan on many of his visits. <br /><br />This portrait lithograph of Dr Theodor Herzl is titled in the plate in Hebrew with Herzl's Hebrew name: Binyamin Zeev. <br /> Early 20th century. unknown
191323751London: John Richmond 1913. A first edition first printing published by John Richmond in 1913. Original frail orange-yellow wrappers printed in red. Some toning and rubbing - no inscriptions. The first of Sassoon's books published as a trade edition preceded by a string of privately printed volumes of verse. After reading this parody of John Masefield's 'Everlasting Mercy' Edmund Gosse suggested that Sassoon send a parcel of his books to John Marsh editor of `Georgian Poetry' which led to further encouragement which Sassoon later said helped "tilt up the bushel under which my light had been burning." Published under the name Saul Kain with an admiring preface by "William Butler" actually the publisher and presented as if it were "the Chantrey Prize Poem" complete with a fake excerpt from a review or judge's pronouncement on the front wrapper: "brilliant beyond belief." Farmer A10. Excessively scarce. John Richmond unknown
1975911160NY: Viking. 1975. His eighth novel winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the title published just before he received the Nobel Prize. Also nominated for the National Book Award. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf done for Kroch's and Brentano's First Edition Circle. Fine in a fine dust jacket -- bright unworn and unfaded. A poorly manufactured volume which is perfectbound and uses cheap paper making attractive copies of this title much scarcer than one would expect. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Viking hardcover books
194461452E-004: Vanguard Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Vanguard Press. 1944. 191 pgs. First Edition/First Printing no later states on the verso. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities light chipping near the crown and heel of the spine; spine lightly sunned. Bound in grey cloth boards with figure of a man blindstamped in red on the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks binding tight and solid boards has some light soil present to the edges of the boards. Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Saul Bellow's first novel documents Joseph's psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. E-04; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages; Expecting to be inducted into the army Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Bellow’s first novel documents Joseph’s psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice. . Vanguard Press hardcover
196455078New York: Viking 1964. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. Signed first printing of one of Bellow's best-known and most acclaimed works in excellent condition. A semi-autobiographical novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction HERZOG was named as one of the 100 best English language novels by TIME in 2010. Decidedly uncommon in this condition. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original dark blue speckled cloth. In original unclipped $5.75 pictorial jacket designed by Mel Williamson. 344 pages. Signed by Bellow on front free endpaper. Faint toning to spine. Minor chip to lower corner front flap. A few tiny spots soil to fore-edge. Touches of offsetting to endpapers. Else bright clean and sharp. Viking unknown
1964846111964. BELLOW Saul. Herzog. Orig. cloth priceclipped d/j. New York: Viking Press 1964. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Bellow on front flyleaf. Fine. unknown
1965576951New York: Enterprise Films Limited / Hart Stenographic Bureau 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 127 photomechanically reproduced leaves printed rectos only. Screwbound in red leatherette Hart Stenographic Bureau wrappers. Inventory control number "13" on first leaf. Near fine. Unproduced screenplay based on Bellow's second novel. OCLC locates one slightly different copy printed in London Morgan Library from the collection of Carter Burden. Enterprise Films Limited / Hart Stenographic Bureau unknown
ppk9900163Penguin Books. Paperback. NEW. 8x6x1. Penguin Books paperback
196730056New York: Indianakatz 1967. Archivally-hinged in wooden frame 11.75 x 8.75 inches. NB: Additional shipping costs will be calculated after checkout. Rubber stamps to cream sheet 9.25 x 6.5 inches SIGNED by Saul in pencil. One of 15 sheets from the famous 1967 stamp-art portfolio Stamped Indelibly published in an edition of 225 by William Katz. [New York: Indianakatz] unknown
1953470537Paris: Maeght 1953. Softcover. Very Good/Very Good. Nos. 53-54. Illustrated by Saul Steinberg. Folio. 24pp. Text in French. Three unsewn gatherings in printed wrappers. Wrappers with modest toning and a bit of wear including a small chip on the lower panel and two small abrasions on the cover one minorly affecting the manuscript date some staining along the spine very good in a modestly worn and toned very good unprinted dust jacket with a couple of short tears a tiny piece of tape on each flap and "Steinberg" inked on the spine. Boldly Inscribed in Steinberg's inimitable flowing script on the cover: "To Ann and Paul with Love Saul Paris 1953." Published in 1953 on the occasion of Steinberg's first Paris exhibition. Maeght unknown
1949122826New York: Harper and Brothers 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /Good. Unpaginated. 31 cm. B&w line drawings on each page. Yellow cloth with black print in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Small chips to spine ends and corners. Dampstains to spine. Light shelf wear to jacket edges. Some light soiling to front panel of jacket. Front flap price clipped. Cloth has faint discolouration on front board. Small smudges on both covers. <br/><br/>Tucked inside are two front covers of The New Yorker magazine illustrated by Steinberg one from Nov. 11 1967 and one from Dec. 4 1971 the latter with an edge tear. Cartoons on 1 The Art of Living 2 The Important People 3 The Domestic Animals 4 The Arts & 5 The Women. Harper and Brothers hardcover
2002033169Gefen Books. fine set in fine dust jackets in fine box . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2002. Gefen Books hardcover
1985ZB1338924Wiley 1985. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 weekend SALE item 1006 pp. hardcover minor internal library markings else text clean & binding tight lacks dust jacket. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Wiley hardcover
