New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition. [x], 246 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering, black stamping. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. Six essays by the German-American political theorist and philosopher. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition. [viii], 275 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with red and black stamping. Fine in a bright, attractive example of the dust jacket, small closed tear to back panel, else Fine. The phrase "the banality of evil" entered American intellectual culture with this work..... More
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
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958. First edition. vi, 333pp. Original cloth and blue paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners and a little toning along top edges, in Very Good spine-sunned, unclipped dust jacket, a little edge-worn, small stain to verso of..... 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
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
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
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
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
London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. First British edition. 495 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Foxed edges, else Fine in a bright, crisp example of the dust jacket, price-clipped with a little foxing. A classic, highly poetic examination of the crowd dynamic as it manifests in society and the..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1966. First edition. x, 300 pp. Original yellowish gray cloth, spine lettered in black and silver, black topstain. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with chip at head, else Near Fine with slightly toned spine panel with tiny stain. 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
Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. First edition, first printing. x, 251 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Foxed fore edge, else Fine, in Very Good original unclipped dust jacket with a few small chips to edges with a few associated creases, light foxing. A nice copy of..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. First edition. xvi, 119 pp. Blue cloth with blue and silver spine lettering. Former owner's name written on paste down, else Fine and unmarked, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a little sunning to spine and back panels. A nice copy. More
The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. First edition. [iv], 116 pp. Original blue wraps. Near Fine with small stain to back wrap near head, bottom edge of textblock slightly soiled. Text free of all markings. Includes two laid-in ads from publisher. An attractive copy of Chomsky's first..... More
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
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
Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1984. First American edition. xxiv, 229 pp. Publisher's cream colored cloth with black spine lettering. Slight lean to spine still Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with sunned spine panel, light shelf wear. A French postmodern work of philosophy that has influenced the fields..... 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
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1887. First edition, first printing. 427, 4 (ads) pp. 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First American edition. xxii, 320, vii, [1] pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt with black stamping, red topstain. Very Good+ with former owner's ex libris stamp to bottom edge of textblock, small dampstain to top edge near head, in a Very Good dust..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First American edition. xxxvi, 449, [1], xiv, [2] pp. Publisher's green cloth with blue stamping and gilt spine lettering, orange topstain. Near Fine with bumped corners and slight foxed top edge, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with slightly dulled spine panel, light edge..... 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