San Francisco: Spinsters / Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987. Signed by Gloria Anzaldua on the verso of the front wrap, "Para Judy, Ojale que te guste mi librito. Contigo, Gloria E. Anzaldua / 2 Febrero 89." [xvi], 203, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Second printing of the first edition..... More
London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1951. First British edition, first printing. (Published in the United States as The Origins of Totalitarianism the same year.) xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light soiling to edges, worn tips, in a Fair dust jacket, chipped..... More
London: T. Payne, B. White, and T. Cadell, 1776. First English edition and the first edition in the English language; translated by William Ellis directly from the Greek. Fireside poet James Russell Lowell's copy, inscribed to him by his friend, American transcendentalist writer and artist C.P. Cranch. Quarto. 8.75 x...... More
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1971. First edition. x, 254 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with age-toned pages, foxed top edge, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning. A series of lectures on philosophers Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. More
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1959. First edition. xviii, 455 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, red topstain. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, rubbed and lightly worn along edges. Includes many of the first English translations of publications by philosophers in the Vienna Circle of..... More
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1860. First edition, first issue with the correct date of 1860 on the front wrapper. [iv], iv, 305 pp. Disbound gatherings of pages (typically 24 or so per gathering) with original wraps laid in, front wrap detached from spine and rear wrap, but complete. Other..... 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
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
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920. First American edition. x, 262 pp. Bound in publisher's navy ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with spots of heavy foxing to fore and top edges that's intruding into margins of text, in a jacket with similar foxing to front panel..... More
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. First edition in English. Bound in publisher's tan printed wraps with price-clipped on front flap with new price over-stamped in American dollars. Very Good with toning and cracking to spine, with light stain at base of spine extending to bottom corners of both cover..... More
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Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. First edition in English. Bound in publisher's tan printed wraps, Near Fine with toning and light creases. Laid in are two typed signed letters from the translator sent at the suggestion of Martin Buber to his close friend, activist and education progressive Elisabeth Rotten..... 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
Boston and London: Marion Boyars Ltd., 1981. First English language edition; preceded by a 1976 French edition. Signed by John Cage and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's tan cloth-affect covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light toning to..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. First edition. Signed by John Cage on verso of front free endpaper. The copy of Ihab Hassan with his signature, as well, to paste down. His marginal brackets and checks occasionally throughout text; a list of his notes with corresponding page numbers is written..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press / Bollingen Series, 1973. Later reprint. Signed by Joseph Campbell and inscribed to a former owner on the colophon page. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps. Very Good, light creasing and wear to covers, covers curled outward, light soiling to textblock edge. The author's best-known..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First British edition and the first English language edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with very slight lean to spine, slight fading and wear to spine ends, offsetting to endsheets and contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First British edition and the first English language edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slight soiling to cloth, bumped corners, pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with tanning to the spine and edges, edge..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First British edition. 273 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxed edges, heaviest at top; some erased penciled notes to endpapers; a little musty. In a toned dust jacket with expert restoration to the spine panel and tips, repaired..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. First British edition. 495 pp. w/ author's note tipped in. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with gift inscription on front free endpaper, slughtly bumped corners, in a Near Fine dust jacket, toned with age, small tear near head, rubbing to..... More
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1965. Association copy. First edition, first printing in supplied first issue dust jacket, unclipped with small tear in top of front panel, slightly edge-worn and spine-sunned, Very Good overall. x, 251 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. A few small stains in text. Pioneering Dutch..... More
The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. First edition, first issue. 116 pp. Bound in publisher's original blue wraps, binder's error with introduction bound before preface. Very Good with slightly sunned wraps, bottom corner bumped, a single page has marginal notes in ink from former owner headlined "Caveat Lector." Chomsky's..... More
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. First American edition. 222, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth and boards, front board stamped in blind, spine stamped in black. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear. The first collection of the Romanian philosopher's work to be translated into English, uncommon..... More
London: Frederick Arnold, 1863. First edition. Signed by George Cruikshank on the front wrap. 48 pp. Publisher's blue wrappers. Very Good+, lightly worn at extremities and a little soiled. An expose of the various absurdities of spiritualism and their assumptions about the spirit world (he wonders why ghosts always appear..... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First book edition, first printing with no ISBN, no subsequent printing mentioned, $3.33 price at base of spine and Lama Foundation listed as the publisher on the rear cover. Bound in publisher's original purple and white printed wraps. Very Good with toning, soiling and..... More
Detroit: Black & Red, 1970. First American edition. (Correct first in the English-language, an unauthorized translation by Fredy Perlman among others. No additional printings indicated on copyright page; first issue price of $1 on front cover.) Near Fine condition. A bit of age-toning to wraps, light shelf wear. A handsome..... More