The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias by Dubos, Rene - 1961

UsedAcceptable. Signs of wear/scuff/discoloration/creases/staining/inscribing on front/back/inside cover,a few pages, flyleaf, & bind but book is in acceptable condition. Text is readable & mostly clean.

Columbia University Press. 1961. Paperback. UsedGood. Softcover; fading and shelf wear to exterior; otherwise contents in good co ndition with clean text, firm binding. .

Columbia University. 1st printing,1961. Very Good-/Good+ hard cover. 12mo,cloth,167pp,illus. chips,small bites,small tears,rubbing,scrapes,yellowing,scuffing,scratches,dust jacket. shelfwear cover. dustsoil topedge,yellowing,clean,tight,text. science.

New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. Cover by Carl Smith. 2434 shelf. Solid trade paperback, pictorial lavender covers. No names, clean text. With a few b/w repros.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, green cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 167 pages. Illustrated with 16 half-tone images. First edition. Based on the lectures given at the annual George B. Pegram Lectureship series. the author approaches the question of 'scientific utopia' from the perspective of C.P. Snow's 'two cultures', stressing the duality of the two separate world-views and the danger inherent in one producing change in ignorance of the other. New York Times book-review clipping and one other laid -in loose, and with original receipt from 1961. Book is clean, square and unmarked but for a touch of wear at heel of spine. Dust-jacket edge-worn and showing old mild damp-stain at lower spine. Very good in a good dust-jacket. .

New York:: Columbia Universtiy Press,, (1970). Very good (previous owner's name inside front cover). Trade paperback. A book whcih "examines the role of social forces in determining the goals of science and considers what the scientist owes to society as a whole and what benefits the layman may legitimately expect from science." xii. Illustrated. 167 pp.

Columbia University Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Former Owner Signature Signed And Dated 1962 On Front End Paper Otherwise Unmarked, Clean And Solid Copy. Green Boards With Gold Writing. Minor Shelf Wear. Gray Dj With Pictorial Of A Man Asleep At Desk And Bats Flying About. Minor Shelf Wear. Price Not Clipped. Copyright 1961 No Indication Of Later Printings..

New York: Columbia University Press 1961. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 167pp. Illustrations. There are pencil notations in margins, and tape stains on the front endpapers. Based on the George B. Pegram Lectures. Book about Francis Bacon. (Science, Medicine).

New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Tear to jacket base at front panel and to jacket crown at rear panel. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

NY: Columbia UP, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Russ, For deep--or relaxing--summer reading. Rene Dubos." Uncommon signed. Seven lectures exploring "the relationship between the scientific community and the lay public that impatiently awaits practical applications of scientific knowledge." Dubos (1901-1982) was a microbiologist and important environmental thinker. He would go to win the Pulitzer in 1969 for So Human an Animal and is credited with coining the essential enviro phrase, "Think globally, act locally." An about fine book in green cloth in a very good jacket with some wear and chipping to top edge..