New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition. 275 pp. Tan cloth with red and black lettering. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, slightly chipped at head and toned just a bit along fore edge. A few small spots of foxing to fore edge and slight offsetting to... More about Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition. 275 pp. Tan cloth with red and black lettering. Near Fine with slightly bumped bottom corners, internally clean and straight, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, slightly chipped at head and tail, rubbed front panel, small tear in top of front panel... More about Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958. First edition. vi, 333pp. Original cloth and blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine in Very Good spine-sunned, unclipped dust jacket with clear tape along top edge of back panel and head. One of the German-born philosopher's major works. More about The Human Condition
London: New Left Books (NLB), 1973. First British edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) 192pp. Reddish green cloth with silver lettering. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a bit of rubbing. Small ding to top of front board. A very neat, clean copy of... More about Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's grey patterned paper over tan cloth spine. Near Fine with light rubbing to titles on spine, slight bruising to spine ends. In a Very Good dust jacket, lightly rubbed and lightly edge worn, with publisher's price of $6.95... More about Ways of Seeing
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First American edition. [viii], 86 pp. Gray cloth blocked in maroon, lettered in gilt, edges stained orange. Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with some uneven toning to front and spine panels, rubbing, lightly worn edges, tiny closed tear to top of front... More about The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. Signed first edition. Advance copy with publisher's card announcing "Advance Copy / Publication Date, Nov. 21" laid in along with publisher's reply post card. Inscribed by author to Wallace Sterling, longtime Stanford University President. [xiv], 273, (1) pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering... More about Modern Arms and Free Men
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1963. First edition. xv, 199pp. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with gift inscription on front flyleaf, lightly bumped corners. In Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light sunning to spine panel, light foxing. An influential history of Renaissance science and philosophy by the distinguished... More about The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy
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 about Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. First edition. 116 pp. Original blue wraps. Very Near Fine with slightly bumped corners and toned wraps, miniscule droplet stain to spine, tiny marginal stain to pages 106 and 107. An excellent copy of Chomsky's first published book, which changed the field of... More about Syntactic Structures
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First American edition. [viii], 181 pp. Original cloth and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in blue and green. Near Fine with cloth sunned along top and bottom edges, in Very Good+ slightly toned, unclipped dust jacket, small closed tear to top of front panel. An... More about A Short History of Decay
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970. First American edition. 183, [2] pp. Original brown cloth and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black. Bumped corners, else Fine in Near Fine spine-sunned unclipped dust jacket. The second English translation of a work by the Romanian aphorist who wrote in French. More about The Fall into Time
Hammersmith, London: The Doves Press, 1914. First edition. 141 (2) pp. with "To the Subscribers of the Doves Press: Apologia" single sheet laid in. Full limp vellum with gilt spine title. One of 150 copies on paper. Vellum lightly toned, somewhat foxed and dust-soiled and a little bowed. Contents in... More about Amantium Irae: Letters to Two Friends 1864-1867
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 about Society of the Spectacle
Detroit: Black & Red, 1970. First American edition. Correct first in the English-language, an unauthorized translation by Fredy Perlman among others. First issue price of $1 on front cover, errata slip at rear. Unpaginated stapled wraps. Good+ condition. Age-toning to wraps, light shelf wear. Faint dampstaining at front and rear... More about Society of the Spectacle
Berlin: Brinkmann & Bose, 1990. Copy #32 of 100 signed by Derrida on the front free endpaper, dated June 1991. First edition. Unpaginated. Gray wraps. In four languages: German, French, English, and Italian. Fine. A signed limited edition by the French postmodern philosopher who pioneered the form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. More about Was ist Dichtung? / Qu'est-ce que la poésie? / What is Poetry? / Che chos e la poesia?
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1887. 427, 4 pp (ads). First edition, first printing. Publisher's pebbled burgundy cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Very Good with cloth rubbed through at corners, chipped at spine ends and faded at spine. Ding to edge of front board. Inner hing slightly started... More about Psychology
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1965. First British edition. 255pp. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, rubbed (especially along edges), lightly edge-worn with two slight creases to front panel. A foundational work of post-colonial theory by the late West Indian-born psychiatrist and... More about The Wretched of the Earth
Leipzig: C.G. Naumann, 1895, 1897, 1904. First edition. viii, 944pp (continuously paginated). Two volumes bound in three. Modern gray cloth with raised bands, paper spine labels, numbered in black, with yellow patterned paper; new pale green endpapers to first two books. In German. Very Good overall with exposed tips, slightly... More about Das Leben Friedrich Nietzsche's
New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. First American edition. Advance review copy with letter from Selma Shapiro at Pantheon Books about the book laid in, dated April 22, 1965. xiii, 299 pp. Red cloth with black stamping on front, gilt lettering on spine. Very Good+ with spine lettering rubbed, lightly dust-soiled... More about Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. First American edition. xiv, 288, [1] pp. Black cloth, front lettered in red, spine in gilt. Fine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a little sunning to spine panel, two faint paperclip impressions to top of front panel, little tear near head. A philosophical... More about I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother... A Case of...
New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. First American edition. xix, 215 pp. Black cloth with black stamping on front, silver stamping on spine. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped ($8.95) dust jacket with small tear in top of front panel, small piece of archival mending tissue on verso, spine panel sunned... More about Birth of the Clinic : An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938-01-01. First Edition, First Printing. In Very Good condition, in dust jacket with price of $4.00 intact. Pages lightly toned. Previous owner details written large on half title page. Bronze cloth lightly rubbed and lightly soiled. The dust jacket shows rubbing, edge wear and soiling, with..... More about Nine Chains to the Moon
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First American edition. v, 93pp. Original blue cloth with printed paper labels. Near Fine in Very Good original dust jacket. A few spots of toning to cloth, dust-soiling to edges, a few easily-erasable pencil marks in margins. Jacket chipped along head/back panel... More about Daedalus, or Science and the Future: A Paper Read to the Heretics, Cambridge on February 4th 1923
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. 41 pp. Paper-covered boards with paper label. Very Good with sunned spine, bumped corners. British scientist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane looks at the apocalypse in this neatly-designed, uncommon little book. More about The Last Judgment: A Scientist's Vision of the Future of Man (THINGS-TO-KNOW SERIES