Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1864. Hardcover. 913 pp. Octavo [22.5 cm]. Green cloth with embossed decoration over boards. Gilt title on spine. Light fading to spine. Cover corners and spine ends have moderate bumping and rubbing leaving some board exposed. Soiling to edges of text block. Previous owner's sticker on..... More
Middletown, CA: The Dawn Horse Press, 2009. Eight Volume Edition. Paperback. Octavo [22.5 cm] White wraps printed in red, black, and tan. Light shelfwear to the wraps. A few insignificant stains and traces of minor soiling and to the extremities here and there. Barcode labels on a couple of 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
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc, 2001. Modern Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto [25 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with tan cloth over boards. Title stamped in gilt against black backgrounds on the spines. Gilt stamped title and ornamental design on the front boards. Publisher's brown text block edges. Ribbon page-markers. Housed in a...... 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: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & The Free Press, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. 529; 571; 521; 544pp. Quarto [26cm]. Each volume is bound in navy cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Corners are bumped. Sporadic rubbing to boards. The spine of 7 & 8 has..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & The Free Press, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. 529; 571; 521; 544pp. Quarto [26cm]. Each volume is bound in navy cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Light bumping to corners and mild soiling to textblock edges. A thorough reference guide..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1860. Author's edition. Leather bound. 287pp. Octavo [20 cm] Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 3/4 blue leather with marbled paper over boards, a lavish gilt tooled spine, and two red leather spine labels. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. The spine is ever so slightly..... More
Hamburg, Germany: Christian Wegner Verlag, 1966-1969. Mixed later editions, volumes vary from third to as late as eighth edition, each stated and dated 1966-1969. Hardcover. Small quarto sized volumes [19 cm]; full navy blue cloth with titles printed on the spine. Silver ribbon page markers. In the original printed dust..... More
Basileæ (Basel): Ex Officina Joan. Oporini (Joannes Oporinus), [1548]. Second volume of a work in three volumes. 667pp. Quarto [33 cm] Mid-17th-century vellum binding (likely Spanish, but possibly Italian). Bold manuscript title on the spine. Gauffered edges. With tanned skin sewing supports. Initial letters. Text block hanging on to wraps..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1951. First American edition. Hardcover. 207 pp. Duodecimo [19 cm]; Black cloth over boards with gilt title on front cover and spine. Edges and corners are rubbed and bumped. Amateur repair has left a dab of glue on top edge of text block, directly touching..... More
Taiwan: Tai Chi Foundation, 1984. First edition thus. Hardcover. 409pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with lettering and stamping in gilt and black ink. Illustrated in black and white. Distributor's label (Charles E. Tuttle) on p. 408. Publisher's mylar wrapper over boards, with a prominent tear to the..... More
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Berlin, Germany: Verlegt bei Bruno Cassirer, 1922-1923. Hardcover. 541, 495, 675, 558, 643, 552, 468, 604, 467, 403, and 448 pp. Small quarto sized volumes [24 cm] in full grey/brown buckram cloth with lettering and decorative designs stamped on spines. All volumes solid and squarely bound, unmarked throughout. Cloth quite..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 119pp. Quarto [31.5cm]. Red paper over boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Spine a touch rolled. Boards mildly bowed and spine ends lightly bumped. Dust jacket is a bit toned and rubbed. One small closed tear at..... More
London: Warburg Institute, 1940. First edition thus. Hardcover. Volume I. 92pp. Slim quarto [27 cm] Light gray cloth over boards. Text block just starting to crack at the rear, but remains very solid. Latin text. Paris-born Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005), the son of Jewish parents, was a philosopher, historian, and activist..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981; 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Volume 1 and 2. 178; 134pp. Octavo [24 cm] Pale blue and bright orange paper over boards. The edges of the spine and boards are very subtly faded. The spine of volume 2 is mildly slanted. Both volumes in very..... More
Neuwied and Berlin: Luchterhand, 1970. German-language edition. Hardcover. 678; 572; 642; 626; 757; 811; 851; 887pp. Volume 4: Probleme des Realismus I. Essays über Realismus; Volume 5: Probleme des Realismus II. Der russische Realismus in der Weltliteratur; Volume 6: Probleme des Realismus III. Der historiche Roman; Volume 7: Deutsche Literatur..... More
Osnabrück: Otto Zeller, 1964. Photomechanical reprint. Hardcover. Octavo [23.5 cm] Yellow cloth over boards stamped in black and gilt. Light foxing to the text block edges. Traces of light soiling to the front board of volume 1. Text in French and Hebrew. Photomechanical reprint of the 1856-1866 edition. Moses ben..... 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
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1963. First American edition. Hardcover. 303pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Spine rolled. Bookseller ticket on the rear pastedown. In the dust jacket, with light spotting, and a very shallow closed tear..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1932. Sixth edition, revised translation, pocket edition. 364pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Blue cloth over flexible thin card boards. Publisher's blue topstain. In a price-clipped dust jacket, with a 1 1/2" closed chip and two tiny open tears to the surface of the spine, a...... 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: Mariner Classics, 2024. 50th Anniversary Editon - Later Printing. Paperback. 443pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. "50th anniversary edition • With a new foreword by Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraf. The bestselling masterpiece about one man’s search for meaning on a motorcycle trip through the..... More
New York: The Objectivist, Inc., 1962-1971. Hardcover. Objectivist Newsletter: 4 volumes bound in one. Quarto [28.5 cm]. Teal cloth over boards with silver lettering. The Objectivist. Octavo [21.5 cm]. Sturdy navy blue cloth over boards. Lettered in gilt. Original wraps bound in. With only very minor wear to the extremities..... More