[Boynton Beach, FL: Dwight L. Allison, Jr., 1992]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket; x,107pp. Just About Fine. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper in the year of publication. More
Utrecht: C.H.E. Breijer, 1888. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm.); later brown card wrappers, typescript paper label rather crudely taped to spine; [4],112pp. Spine faded and label rather yellowed and chipped, some minor soiling to textblock, occasional early pencil annotations at beginning of text, else About Very Good. Study of Dutch..... More
Padova: Edizioni 1 + 1, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 198pp. Fine condition. Text entirely in Italian. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Second printing. Octavo; cloth-backed pictorial boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 1073pp. Mild dusting and wear, but little evidence of reading or use; Near Fine in like jacket. First appearance in English of the Marxist philosopher's magnum opus, left uncompleted upon his death in 1940. The hardcover issue... More
Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 225pp. Fine in dustwrapper - an unworn, apparently unread copy. More
La Salle: Open Court, 1991. Reprint. First paperback printing. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; xix, 811pp; includes bibliography. Very mild external wear; a few brief ink marks in margins of bibliographical section; Very Good. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 264pp. Some ink marginalia to first 30pp, else tight, clean and unmarked. More
New York: Hillary House Inc., 1957. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue and white decorative dust jacket; 110pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by the author in English... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in purple dust jacket; xiv,[2],304pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, a couple leaves dog-eared, else Very Good. More
[Norfolk, CT]: New Directions Book, [1957]. First Trade Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original cloth in violet pictorial dust jacket; [8],118,[1]pp.; illus. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else About Fine. BILLINGS A7b. More
[Norfolk, CT]: New Directions Book, [1957]. First Trade Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original cloth in violet pictorial dust jacket; [8],118,[1]pp.; illus. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else About Fine. Near Fine in a slightly worn and spine-faded dustwrapper. The artist's copy, with Shahn estate label inside front cover (but no other... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 585pp. Indentation from paper clip to pages 459 & 476, else a fine, unmarked copy in unworn dustwrapper. A nearly new-appearing copy. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red and off-white decorative dust jacket; vii,[3],187pp. Jacket dampstained along extremities with rather heavy bleeding to rear panel, extremities additionally chipped and toned with smallish loss to bottom edge of upper panel not approaching text. Near Fine... 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
London: Chatto & Windus, 1946. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in brick dust jacket, red topstain; viii,358pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and darkened, spine especially toned, corners very gently bumped, else Very Good and sound. Study of mysticism first published in the United States the previous year..... 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
Dayton, OH: Les Livres, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; x, 102pp. Trivial external wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. "A unified theory of how humans relate to the artifacts they produce and consume." 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: 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
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1932. First Edition. Essays on ethics by the then-President of Harvard University. Lowell occupied the Presidency from 1909 to 1932. Perhaps inevitably given the turbulent times and his own Brahmin upbringing, he managed to find himself consistently on the wrong side of history: in 1922 he... More
New York: A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1904. First American Edition. Philosophical explorations on the question of freedom of the will by MacDonald, a prominent London medical doctor and son of the fantasist George MacDonald. The younger MacDonald's second book; he went on to publish about a dozen further works on... 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
[Lawrence]: University Press of Kansas, [1996]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket; xv,[1],323pp. Jacket spine quite sunned, occasional ink marginalia in text, else Very Good and sound. More
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