Written on the Hills: The Making of the Akron Landscape.
de QUINE, Willard Van Orman - MCGOVERN, Frances
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Akron, Ohio: The University of Akron Press,, 1996. First edition, first printing, presentation copy to the American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, inscribed by the author on the half-title "For Van Quine from his admirer, Fran McGovern". Quine was born and grew up in Akron, Ohio, the history of which is charted in McGovern's book. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Some soiling to edges and contents, still very good, in near-fine jacket, trivial peripheral creasing.
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- Written on the Hills: The Making of the Akron Landscape.
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- QUINE, Willard Van Orman - MCGOVERN, Frances
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- Akron, Ohio: The University of Akron Press,
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