London: George Allen & Unwin, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 320pp. Owner's signature to front endpaper, else a tight, unmarked Near Fine copy in original dustwrapper, price-clipped with a few abrasions at edges, Very Good. More
New York: William Kerr and Company, 1841. Stereotype Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); full contemporary sheep, black gilt spine label; xi,[12]-178pp. Boards a bit scuffed with brief exposure at corners, bottom inch of front free endpaper neatly excised, contemporary ownership rubberstamps still present, pastedowns rather foxed, else Very Good and sound overall..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1964. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; black cloth boards; dustjacket; 344pp. Ownership signature; faint residue to verso of rear endpaper (from removed bookplate?), else tight and unmarked, in corner-clipped and lightly edgeworn jacket, Very Good. Edited volume of essays on the philosophy of law..... More
Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1988. First Edition. 12mo. Card wrappers; 328pp. External wear and soil to wrappers; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Text entirely in German. Philosophy of Science from a Marxist perspective. More
[Enugu, Nigeria: Igbo Philosophical Association, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in green and red; 35pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities and textblock, else Very Good or better. Introductory number of a projected journal on Igbo culture and philosophy, though we have found no evidence..... More
London: C.W. Daniel Co., 1927. First Thus. Best-known work by Isbyam (1887-1949), a British civil engineer and philosopher. The work is said to touch "on themes, particularly Relativity, that were not explored until the 1980s and 1990s" (see finding aid to Western's papers at IISH). Western was chairman of the..... More
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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954-61. Later printings. Three octavo volumes. Brown cloth; dustjackets; 510+442+373pp. Fine, tight and unmarked set in Very Good or better original jackets. Jackets for volumes 1 and 3 are price-clipped; vol. 1 jacket tender at folds with old clear tape repair at base of spine panel, just..... More
München: R. Piper & Co. Verlag, [1948]. Reprint. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's limp boards in tan dust jacket lettered in brown, black topstain; 136pp. Chips and small losses to jacket spine, extremities toned, dampstaining to upper cover not bleeding onto boards, else Good to Very Good overall. More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1931. First Edition. Large octavo. Black cloth boards (hardcover); 346pp; 12 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Brief pencil annotation inside front cover, else a tight, VG or better copy, free of textual markings or significant wear. Though clearly superseded by later scholarship, Josephson's remains one of..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1957. First Edition. Nice association copy of Kahler's most influential work, a cross-disciplinary study of alienation in the modern world. Kahler (1885-1970) emigrated from Prague in 1938; he was long on the faculty of Princeton University and taught at Black Mountain College for one year (1946-47)..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Otto Wigand, 1843. First Edition. Contemporary account of the life and works of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854), best known for developing the term for German idealism "Naturphilosophie." Authorship attributed to Christian Kapp according to OCLC no. 337083. Octavo (21.5cm.); late 19th-century two-toned library..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards (hardcover); 434pp. No dustjacket, else a fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy, Near-New. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 261pp. Fine in jacket; a new-appearing, unread copy. More
Bombay: People's Publishing House, 1947. First Thus. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed card wrappers in white and greenish-black dust jacket; [4],165pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, general light dust-soil, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Short work by the Scottish philosopher, first published in London in 1948. OCLC locates one copy..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],255pp. Minor curling to jacket extremities else Very Good or better. Study of the life and works of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668-1774). More
Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij N.V., 1935. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's black gilt-lettered cloth; xviii,208pp. Some shelf wear with shallow loss at spine ends, spine cloth sunned and gilt dulled, small gouge at bottom margin of upper cover, else Very Good, internally near fine. First edition of the author's work..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. First Edition. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Lengthy later gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn dustwrapper. More
Napoli: Arte Tipografica, 1999. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; xvii,[1],497pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Festschrift dedicated to the Italian legal philosopher on the occasion of his receiving the Premio Mecenate. Text entirely in Italian. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1925. First American Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in mustard decorative dust jacket printed in brown; [4],154pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and worn, spine toned, upper panel spotted; contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, coin-size loss to bottom fore-edge corner of..... More
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[Boston? North American Review, 1845]. Offprint. Octavo (21cm.); drab stitched wrappers; [349]-384pp. Wrappers rather chipped along extremities, spine partly perished, faint vertical crease, else Very Good overall. Offprint book review of the London, 1843, edition of Mill's three volume work. Inscribed on upper cover to Congressman from Massachusetts Rufus Choate..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; xviii,414pp. Fine, unmarked copy in lightly worn dustwrapper. More
Quincy: Christopher Publishing House, (1970). First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 294pp. Clean, tight, and unmarked - Near Fine, in a lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper, Very Good or better. Includes brief (2-pp) bibliography. African-American philosopher's historical analysis of capitalism, class, and their relationship to social justice in the..... More
La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1965. First Edition. Series 10 in the Paul Carus Lectures, 1955. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xviii, 440pp. Minor dampstaining and spotting to top edge of textblock, trivial rubbing to top and bottom edges of boards, else an tight, clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine, grey glazed endpapers; 269,[1],16pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, especially spine ends, faint bookseller rubberstamp to p. [3], else Very Good and sound. More
Monte Carlo: Éditions Regain, 1974. First Trade Edition. Octavo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 470pp. Mild external soil; small crease to upper corner of front wrapper; still a tight, nicely preserved copy, Very Good or better. A major work by the dissident Soviet philosopher who was the model for the character Sologdin..... More
