The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias
by Dubos, Rene
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018375
- Title
- The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias
- Author
- Dubos, Rene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
All books are described in general dealer terms and we make every effort to list descriptions accurately and conservatively. Books may be returned for any reason within 10 days. We ask that customers email us before returning items. For oversize books, multi-volume titles and sets postage will charged accordingly and customer contacted with additional postage costs.
About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...