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THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF SCIENCE: STUDIES ON THE ABUSE OF REASON
by Hayek, F.A. [Friedrich A.]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Glencoe: The Free Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 255 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine black with off-white lettering. Exterior shows moderate plus wear including slight white scuffs, several instances of chips to the head/tail edges, and mild age toning/soiling to the rear. Boards have very mild wear including minor bumping to spine edges and tail fore corners. Text block has head edge colored green and slight age toning to the fore and tail edges. Deckled fore edge. Previous owner's information to the front free end paper. Light marginalia interiorly. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1377525. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1377525
- Title
- THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF SCIENCE: STUDIES ON THE ABUSE OF REASON
- Author
- Hayek, F.A. [Friedrich A.]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- Glencoe
- Date Published
- 1952
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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