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Carroll, Lewis [ Dodgson ]. Symbolic Logic Part I Elementary. Macmillan & Co Ltd London, 1896.
Price: US$614.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3rd edition 2nd thousand. 12mo. xxxi + (1) + 192 + (1) + (3)pp.Frontis + numerous bw diagrams in text. Publisher's brown cloth covered boards, black lettering + double horizontal lines along top/bottom edges on front. Neat dedication on fep " Jessie Hope left with all her books to J.H.N. April 1920 ". Small addendum leaf bound before page 1. Covers : fading front bottom corner, water tide mark on front by spine, faint grubbiness, slight rub front top corner, slight rub along bottom edge, cloth on spine crimped. Contents : slight lean, faint browning else very clean & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy. VG-.
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Addendum slip tipped in before the start of the text. Original publisher's cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Original publisher's cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Charles Dodgson, ( Lewis Carroll). Symbolic Logic. Macmillan & Co, London, 1896.
Price: US$1344.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A presentation copy of Symbolic Logic, Part 1 in v good condition. Dodgson donated presentation copies of this mathematical work to Wigan Free Library and the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 270). Symbolic Logic was intended to consist the three parts, Elementary, Advanced and Transcendental is an attempt to popularize Formal Logic and accuracy of thought. This third edition contains the preface dated 20 July 1896. Original brown cloth boards lettered in black on the front cover. Rubbed and soiled covers with lightly darkened spine, minimal edge wear. Library bookplate to the front paste down. "Withdrawn" stamp plus contemporary librarian cataloguing note on ffp. Blue ink presentation inscription by the publisher to the half title reading, "Presented by the Author for the use of Free Public Library Wigan". Embossed library stamp of Wigan Free Public Library to the lower corners of the half title, frontpiece, title page and first and last leaf of the main text. Purple ink library stamp to the title verso. Contents are clean. Addendum slip tipped in before Bk 1. 8vo
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
lewis Carroll. Symbolic Logic Part I Elementary. Macmillan, 1896.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Symbolic Logic Part I Elementary" by Lewis Carroll. 1896, first UK edition. Frontispiece, diagrams, 3pp. advertisements at end, trace of "Presentation Copy" stamp to title, later red morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., original brown cloth binding bound in at end, 1896.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Original publisher's cloth with the author and title in black on the front cover, edge of back cover just starting to fray; overall a wonderful copy with the bookplate of J. Steele, Coldstream Guards on the pastedown.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SECOND EDITION PRESETATION COPY. 1 vol., illustrated with diagrams, inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "D. G. Ritchie, from the Author. June 13, 1896.", bound in the publisher's original black lettered brick red cloth, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, ink notes to last blank endleaf possibly in the hand of Ritchie, overall VERY GOOD. Not located in "Dodgson at Auction" David George Ritchie (1853-1903) was a Scottish philosopher who was a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford before becoming a tutor at Balliol College. in 1894 he left Oxford having been elected Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at St. Andrews. He must have been at St. Andrews by the time that Carroll inscribed this book to him.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: Original publisher's cloth over boards, cut flush, front cover lettered and ruled in black; presentation inscription, "G.E. Jelf, with the Author's sincere regards. Feb. 22, 1896." Preserved in a red morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. First edition of Carroll's early work of logic, the first issue with the introduction dated January 1896. Intended to supply "for a most interesting mental recreation," this work anticipates his later Game of logic (1897), and introduces his inventive use of square Venn diagrams to represent original syllogisms. FIRST EDITION, PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.