London: Cambridge at the University Press, 1954. First edition, American export issue dust jacket priced in dollars. xi, 146 pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with tiny tear in front panel near head, another along bottom edge, bottom tips worn. A nice... More
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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. First edition. xv, 477 pp. Navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with some underlining in very light, easily-erasable pencil; name on front free endpaper. In unclipped, chipped and creased Fair dust jacket. The political philosopher's first major work, following some articles... More
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
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
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
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. 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
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
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
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
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
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
London: Oxford University Press, 1935. First edition. (xxvi), 389 pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear, else Fine. A beautiful copy of the author's third book on Tibet. The rare dust jacket has done its job admirably, keeping the... More
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
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
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
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
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. First American edition. (x), 469 pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with some offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good spine-sunned dust jacket. An uncommon work of cultural criticism by the late French historian and philosopher of social science. More
New York: Mother Earth Publishing association, 1910. First edition, first printing. Near Fine, with spine cloth lightly toned and with a small stain, tiny wear spot to front gutter. With publisher's prospectus laid in, a bit toned and with a smudge. A much neater and brighter copy than normally found. More
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
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
London: SCM Press, 1962. First British edition. (Correct first in the English language.) 589 p. Very Good+ in About Very Good dust jacket. Faint staining to cloth on front cover. Offsetting to rear endpaper, hinge at rear starting. Name on ffep. Jacket spine panel toned, staining near head, chipped at... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959. First British edition. 176pp. World Perspectives 15. Near Fine with a bit of foxing to fore edge in Near Fine dust jacket with small scrape to front panel near fore edge, slight toning to spine panel, price intact (15s net). A very nice copy. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1952. First American edition. 126pp. Orange cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good with writing on rear endpaper and former owner name on front endpaper, foxing to fore edge, in Good+ dust jacket that's chipped at head and tail with a few stain droplets to front... More