The Half Widow
Kolkata, India: Power Publishers, 2012. Paperback. 230pp. Octavo [21 cm] Pictorial wraps. Very good. The covers show light surface wear, and there is an ink stamp on the half title page. This is the author's debut English novel. More
Kolkata, India: Power Publishers, 2012. Paperback. 230pp. Octavo [21 cm] Pictorial wraps. Very good. The covers show light surface wear, and there is an ink stamp on the half title page. This is the author's debut English novel. More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. SIGNED. 190pp. Folio [33 cm] 1/4 light blue cloth with gold and blue illustrated paper covered boards. Top edge gilt. Very good. The spine is ever so slightly rolled back. There is a former owner's name on the front free endsheet. The..... More
Beverly Hills, CA: The Biocentric Institute, 1982. Audiocassette edition. AudioCD. Very good condition. Rand's idea of man and her philosophy for living on earth have changed the lives of thousands of readers and created a philosophic movement with a huge impact on American culture. More
Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Salvatore Fiume. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 298pp. Quarto [26.8cm]. Purple floral cloth-covered boards. Black leather spine label with gold lettering. Publisher's pale blue stain on the head edge of the text block. Deckled pages. Spine is slightly faded. Black slipcase with an off-white paper label..... More
Bombay: Published for Kavitabhavan by Longmans Ltd., 1949. First Indian Edition. Paperback. 44pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan and brown printed wraps. Very good condition. With notes and commentary on the text and the ideograms together with Ciu Hsi's "Preface" to the Chung Yung and Tseng's commentary on the Testament. More
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1969-1971. Paperback. Quarto [25 cm] Beige printed wraps, with just light soiling and wear to the wraps. Minor numerical notation on one of the front free endpapers. Internally nice and bright. May require extra postage due to weight. Nouvelle présentation, en co-édition avec Le Centre..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931. Hardcover. 41pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Top edge gilt. Near fine. The edges of the covers and spine are ever so slightly bumped and rubbed, and the spine is just a tiny bit rolled..... More
New York and London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1978. Third printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 876pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Natural beige cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, with a number of small, light stains on the rear cover. Illustrated endpapers. In..... More
New York: Atlantic Recording Corporation, 1974. LP Record. The album cover is lightly soiled and rubbed. Ed Matthews presents The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. One of the most beloved spiritual classics of our time, musically interpreted on LP Record. More
2004. Spiral Bound. Quarto [28 cm] White plastic spiral binding with illustrated wraps. Very good. The plain white rear wrap is very gently soiled. With a glossary. Contents include The Benefits of Believing, Free Will, Belief and Value, and much more. More
Frankfurt: Vittorio Klosterman, 1952. Hardcover. 345 pp. Octavo. Navy paper over boards with original dust jacket. Gilt title stamped on front cover and spine. Blue top edge. Spine cracked. Original dust jacket exhibiting some tearing, toning, and signs of shelf wear. Pages toned. German edition. More
London: The Folio Society, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 539pp. Quarto [25.2cm]. Grey-brown buckram over boards with black and gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge of text block gilt. Lacking publisher slipcase. From publisher: Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work..... More
Vendome, France: Presses Universitaires de France, 1961-1963. Paperback. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] in wraps. Light creasing and wear to toned wraps; ink inscription on inside front wrap of each book, else interiors are unmarked. Three-book set is comprised of Tome Second (Premiere and Deuxieme Parties) and Tome Troisieme. The first volume..... More
Harper Perennial, 2009. Later Edition. Paperback. 312 pages; Octavo [20.5], Illustrated Wraps. "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 2004. First edition. Paperback. 215pp. Octavo [23 cm] in wraps. Faint shelfwear. From the book: "Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together." More
Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Original edition. Hardcover. 191pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Glossy blue and red printed paper over boards. Ex-library, with several ink stamps on the text block edges. Page 35 is a bit wrinkled, and has a 1" closed tear in the top edge. Sporadic highlighting..... More
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826. Third edition, revised and corrected. Hardcover. 304pp. Octavo [23 cm] Rebound in 1/4 parchment velum and marbled paper over boards, with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Deckled fore edges. New endsheets and flyleaves. Very good condition. There are several minor stains on..... More
1931. Very slim sextodecimo [18 cm] Saddle-stitched printed wraps. Light wear to the wraps. One of the pages is a bit soiled. "The term robot has been applied to our modern appliances which are having so great a part in displacing man's necessity as a factor in the world's industries..... More
New York: The Ayn Rand Letter, Inc., 1971-1976. Original issues. Unbound. Quarto [30 cm] Individual issues housed in three plain orange folders. The newsletters are in near fine condition. Leonard Peikoff writes, "Most men regard philosophy as an intellectual chess game of no consequence to their lives; they regard their..... More
New York: William Morrow, 2005. Later printing. Paperback. 430; 16pp. Octavo [20 cm] Printed wraps. This Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book was born. More
New York: International Publishers, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 223pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. For some reason, a previous owner decided to put a clear gloss on the spine and front cover. The top edge of the front endsheet is..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2009. Later printing. Paperback. 311pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. An updated edition, featuring insights, interviews, and more. More
The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Second edition. Paperback. 391 pp. Octavo. [22 cm]. White wraps. Severe scuffing to wraps. Previous owner's pencil markings on front free endpaper. An in depth review of the ancestry of phenomenology, including treatments of the major figures Heidegger, Sartre, Scheler, and Husserl. More
New Castle, Delaware; Athens, Greece: Oak Knoll Press; ATON, 2015. First English Edition. Hardcover. 312pp. Quarto [25 cm] Tan cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. A book tracing the path followed by Plato's Dialogues, in original form and in translation, through Antiquity, the Middle Ages..... More