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
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
Cicero: Orations and Essays
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
The Analects of Confucius
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1976]. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. [130pp] Small quarto [26.5 cm] Full brown leather with three raised bands and gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Peach moire end sheets and a matching satin ribbon page mark. From publisher: The Analects (or..... 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
Buddhism, Primitive and Present, in Magadha and in Ceylon
London; New York; Bombay; Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1908. Second edition. Leather bound. 301pp. Octavo [23 cm] Elegantly bound in brown leather, with a hubbed spine and ornate decorative and pictorial stamping. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to the extremities. The study of Buddhism from the point of view..... 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
Sept Essais d'Emerson Traduits Par 1, Will. Avec Une Préface de Maurice Maeterlinck.
Brussels, Belgium: Paul Lacomblez, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 251pp. Octavo [17.9cm]. Brown leather binding with gilt decoration. Edges of textblock are also gilt. Five raised bands on the spine. Rolled edges on the inside of the boards with marbled paper endpages. Top head edge is very slightly bowed, tail fore-edge..... More
Disobey!: The Philosophy of Resistance
Verso, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. 214pp. Octavo. Red paper over boards with illustrated white dust jacket. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus. Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce..... 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
The Conquest of Bread
UK: Penguin Classics, 2015. Later printing. Paperback. 221pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. With its optimistic vision of a non-hierarchical society of grass-roots democracy and self-sufficient communities, this powerful 1892 work by 'anarchist prince' Peter Kropotkin has influenced activists the world over, from nineteenth-century workers to 1960s student radicals and..... 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
The Portable Karl Marx
New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Reprint. 605pp. [19.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Includes the complete Communist Manifesto and substantial extracts from On the Jewish Question, the German Ideology, Grundrisse, and Capital, a broad representation of his letters, and lesser-known works, especially his long-unavailable, early works." More
Capital: Volume One
New York: Vintage, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. 1141pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "'Capital,' one of Marx’s major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One..... 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 Robots of Tomorrow: The Depression, Its Cause, Its Cure
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