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
Philosophy
The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon
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
The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon (The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon)
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1980. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 190pp. Quarto [28 cm] Brown leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endsheets. Very good. The edges of the endsheets are ever..... More
Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political
London: Charles Tilt, 1836. Leather bound. 187; [4]pp. Fortyeightmo [10.5 cm] Green leather lettered and embellished with gilt. All edges gilt. Four pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Good. Gently rubbed at the extremities. The front pastedown has a contemporary gift inscription in pen..... More
Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human
London: J. F. Dove, 1828. Dove's English Classics Edition. Leather bound. 272pp. Twenty-fourmo [13 cm] Green leather with decorative gilt tooling on the spine and covers. Turn-ins gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title page vignette. Very good. Rubbed along the edges and joints. An attractive pocket edition..... More
Libertarianism in One Lesson
Costa Mesa, CA: Orpheus Publications, 1984. Original edition. Paperback. INSCRIBED. Thin quarto [27.5 cm] Blue and white illustrated wraps. Very good condition. Inscribed by David Bergland below the Introduction. David Bergland was the Libertarian Candidate for President of the United States. More
The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand: A Personal Statement
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
Thoughts on Civil Liberty, on Licentiousness, and Faction.
London: L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1765. Second edition. Leather bound. 168pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown leather with a black leather spine label on the spine. Rebacked with the majority of the original spine overlaid. Marbled endsheets, with modern reinforcements to hinges. Rubbing and moderate wear to leather, dampstain to..... More
Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot and The Great Digest
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
Médiation Symbolique et Société
Paris: Librairie des Meridiens, 1983. First French translation. Paperback. SIGNED. 203pp. Octavo [21 cm] White, black and green printed wraps. Very good condition. The top fore edge corners of the front cover and pages are gently bumped. Inscribed by the author to Hubert Dreyfus on the half title page. Hubert..... More
Oeuvres de Descartes Publiée par Charles Adam & Paul Tannery: Correspondance I, II, III (3 volumes from the set)
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1969-1971. Paperback. Quarto [25 cm] Beige printed wraps, with just light soiling and wear to the wraps. Internally nice and bright. May require extra postage due to weight. Nouvelle présentation, en co-édition avec Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. These volumes cover Descartes' correspondence..... More
The Way Out of Educational Confusion (The Inglis Lecture 1931)
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
Buckminster Fuller to Children of Earth
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Octavo [20 cm] in decorative printed wraps blind-embossed with a geodesic dome design. Very light wear and faint toning to wraps; first two leaves completely disbound (but present), else interior is clean and tight. Signed by Fuller in..... More
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics. Part 2
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 689-1020pp. Octavo [24 cm] Glossy rust-colored boards, with light rubbing to the boards. There is a brief gift inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper. The focus of Part 2 is the Sophists. More
What We Believe: An Inquiry
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
Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931-1941
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 2016. First edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Blue paper covered boards with silver spine stamp. Near Fine. Dust jacket exhibits slight shelf wear. "For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as the "Black Notebooks" after the..... More
Recherches Logiques, Partial Set (Epimethee Essais Philosophiques Series)
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
Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh
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
Capital as Organic Unity: The Role of Hegel's Science of Logic in Marx's Grundrisse
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
Elements of Political Economy
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
The Ayn Rand Letter (3 volumes)
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
Before Ethics
Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 1998. Later printing. Hardcover. 125pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light blue and black glossy boards. Near fine. Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Adriaan Perperzak was a teacher of philosophy at the universities of Nijmegen, Delft, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Duquesne, Boston College, Pisa, Mallorca, Nice, and..... More
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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
Biology and Marxism
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