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
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
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
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: Simon & Schuster, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. 334pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Orange boards; title stamped in white on spine. "A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these..... 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
London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2009. First printing. Hardcover. 272 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. Shiny blue cloth over boards with silver stamping to front board and title stamped in white on spine and front board. "A luxuriously illustrated and silk-bound, foil-blocked edition of this classic Chinese text on the principles of..... 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
New York: Sirius, 2022. Hardcover. 256pp. Sextodecimo. Illustrated paper over boards with title stamped in gilt on spine. Nietzsche's radical polemic Beyond Good and Evil is presented in a handsome hardback edition, with gold embossing and gilded page edges. "Expanding on his ideas from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this influential text..... More
United States of America: Vintage Books, 1989. Later printing. Paperback. 367pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. The great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with Ecce Homo, Nietzche’s remarkable review of his life and works. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in..... 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
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, 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
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. First edition thus. Hardcover. 702pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth over boards with silver stamped lettering on the backstrips and front boards. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities; tiny pen mark to fore-edge of the text block of volume 1. Else, near..... 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