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Williams & Norgate, 1911. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1911. 4th impression. 492 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Gilt lettering is darkened.

D. Appleton & Company, 1892. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact. Book slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Williams & Norgate, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. Third Impression. 492 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Williams and Norgate,, 1904. Hardback. The cloth binding has some light wear only and remains sound. The endpapers have some light foxing. The tissue guard has some browning which has affected the portrait and title page. There is some edge foxing throughout with the first and l ast few pages more extensively affected.

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London: Williams and Norgate, 1898. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The fifth edition of Herbert Spencer's first principles of his fascinating system of Synthetic Philosophy. The fifth edition, tenth thousand of this work in the publisher's original pebbled cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. He coined the expression "survival of the fittest" in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).In this first volume of his magnum opus The Synthetic Philosophy, he explains the first principles of his system of Synthetic Philosophy. Spencer saw philosophy as a combination of the fundamental principles of biology, psychology, sociology and morality, and believed that it could replace traditional religion. In this work, he argues that the "law of the multiplication of effects", due to an unknown absolute force, is… Read More

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