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
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
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: 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
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
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
New York: Signet Classics, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. 127pp. Duodecimo [17cm]. Illustrated wraps. 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: 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
New York: Vintage Books, 2014. Michael McCurdy. Reprint. Paperback. 190pp. Sextodecimo [17cm]. Printed wraps. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1906. Walden edition. Leather bound. Octavo [20 cm] 3/4 green leather with marbled paper covered boards, and gilt tooled spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endsheets. Most volumes are in very good condition, and several volumes are in good condition. The spines, joints and..... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 308pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Full red gilt-stamped leather, with raised spine bands. All edges gilt. Tan moiré endpapers. Bound-in pagemarker ribbon Present. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Second Vintage Books Edition; Later Printing. Paperback. 152pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue wraps. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We are so concerned with tomorrow that..... More
Cambridge University Press, 9780521465571. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. 429pp. Octavo (23.5cm); glossy paper over boards. Social Theory of International Politics builds a cultural theory of international politics, which takes the views states have upon each other as a fundamental determinant. The book describes four factors which drive structural change within these..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED. 171pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Very good condition. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with..... More
Cleveland, OH: The Utopia Publishing Company, 1902. Hardcover. 326pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Good. The covers are heavily rubbed, and have a couple of prominent abraded patches. The underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the edges. There..... More