New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006. First edition. Signed by Amartya Sen on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. Near Fine with light wear in Fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. The Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher's examination of the causal link between identity and violence..... More
Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1628. Third edition. [vi], 77 [Democritus to the Reader], [6], 1-79, 78-96 [hand corrected], 97, 98 [hand corrected], 99 [hand corrected], 100, 101 [hand corrected], 102-208, [4] 209-300, 303, 304, 301, 302, 305-359, "359" but actually 360, 361, [362 skipped], 363-374, [2], 375-584, 583, 584, 585-646, [8..... More
London and New York: ICA / Verso, 1989. First edition. 96 pp. Publisher's wraps coated with sandpaper. Near Fine with typical rubbing to sandpaper along top edge. A book to accompany the ICA exhibition On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time, covering the avant-garde..... More
[Various Places]: [Various], [Late 1960s-1990s]. A Portland, Oregon activist's collection of 90 pamphlets, zines, and periodicals exploring the aftermath and influence of the Paris-based group The Situationist International. That influence was profound on anarchism, even though the group's political orientation was explicitly and sometimes dogmatically Marxist. All manner of Situationist-inspired..... More
Tournai, Belgium: Casterman, 1973. First edition. Signed by Jean Baudrillard on the front free endpaper, inscribed to J.P. Mayer (1903-1992) Professor Emeritus at Reading University, "Pour Peter Mayer, tres cordialement, J. Baudrillard. 148 pp. Wraps. In French. Near Fine with light reading wear. The French postmodern philosopher's critique of Karl..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1910, 1912, 1913. First edition. Three volumes. ix, [5], 666; xxxiv, 772; x, 491 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spines lettered in gilt; housed in custom folding cloth box. Good condition overall. Unsophisticated copies, pleasantly not-ex-library (very uncommon in commerce thus), but certainly fragile. Rubbing to..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1960. First American edition. 252 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine stamping. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a little foxing and wear, price-clipped. An important work by the Spanish philosopher best-known for his work The Revolt of the..... More
New York: Granary Books, 1992. First edition. An artist's book containing drawn and painted images by Timothy C. Ely, set against text written by Terence McKenna, with typography by Philip Gallo. From a limited edition of only 75 copies, signed by McKenna and Ely. Of those 75, there were 55..... More
New York: Random House, 1961. First edition. Signed by Ayn Rand in blue ink on half title. viii, 242pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, with gilt spine lettering and green ruling. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper, in lightly worn Near Fine..... More
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cloth, skillfully rebacked preserving much of the original spine, corners consolidated. Fading and rubbing to cloth, contemporary owner name and date to title page, small area of browning to page 32-33 where a clipping was formerlay..... More
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1983. First edition. Signed by Jean Baudrillard on the front free endpaper, warmly inscribed to prolific French author and politician Max Gallo. 273, [13] pp. Illustrated wraps. In French. Very Good with creased spine, light wear. A turning point in the famous postmodern philosopher's oeuvre, in which..... More