Re: "The Living Brain" By William Grey Walter

"Airy R Bean" writes on Sun, 24 Aug 2003:
>
> How much is one expected to pay for a first edition
> copy of this (Assuming that there were other editions) complete
> with slightly-torn paper cover and a page torn from the
> 25th July 1953 edition of "The New Statesman and Nation"
> reviewing the book?

It looks like I paid US $1.95 (many years ago) for the copy of
"The Living Brain" by W. Grey Walter that I have right here.
(It has a sticker:  W.W. Norton & Co. $1.95 :-)
>
> My local bookseller wants £30. I thought that a tenth of this
> would be reasonable.

Booksellers need to make a living, you know.  They provide the
ultimate pleasures in life for thee and me, and for what?
Begrudge not booksellers the pittance they ask for paradise!

>
> My reason for wanting a copy of it is that I read it originally
> in the mid 60's when first becoming interested in Cybernetics.

I bought it, but I don't think I ever really did read it.
My copy here looks brand new and unused -- after decades!
I got a lot more mileage (YMMV) out of "The Metaphorical Brain"
by Michael A. Arbib, which I bought on 20 October 1973 for US $14.95
and proceeded to make reference to in a Theory of Mind journal at
http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/theory1.html#1974jul23 (q.v.).

Nevertheless, my copy of "The Living Brain" permits an ISBN search via
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookSearchPL?ph=2&sn=0393001539 (ABE).

You may also search the Advanced Book Exchange by title, and see:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=202243394
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=204403396
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=208476866
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=227994168
plus many more offerings of the book.

>
> (I still have my copy of Guilbaud's "What is Cybernetics?" that I
> purchased in 1967)

A.T. Murray
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