Specializing in C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Inklings & "The Seven"
London and New York: Hamish Hamilton, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it often the last pleasure we permit ourselves? And why despite.....
Item #039322
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Drawings: Henry Howard. Second Edition. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION, REVISED. On title page: "A Critical View of the General Hypotheses Respecting Beauty, by Hume, Hogarth, Burke, Knight, Alison, Etc. and Followed by A Similar View of the Hypotheses of Beauty in Sculpture and Painting by Leonardo.....
Item #071754
New York: Philosophical Library, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Nice copy. No writing in the book - not even an owner's name. Jacket is not price-clipped. 138 pp. Indexed. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #006362
London: A Millar, 1745. Second Edition. Leather. Full calf with original leather spine label. Raised bands. Author's last name "Baxter" written on title page. Previous owner's personal library bookplate opposite Dedication page. 400pp. This is Volume 1 (of 2). Front hinge split (but holding strong). Full refund if not satisfied.....
Item #036737
Verso, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. There has been, over the last decades, a deep crisis in the models which, for a long time, have been central metaphors governing thought and research in the social sciences. The main symptom in this paradigmatic shift has been the increasing centrality of the discourse.....
Item #036871
self published. First Edition. Paperback. Rear cover just a bit soiled (otherwise a very good copy). No writing in the book - not even an owners name. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #008287
New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc., [1917-1918]. Modern Library First Edition. Softcover. MODERN LIBRARY FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Bound in textured brown leatherette with gilt Modern Library embellishment and gilt lettering on the spine. Textured brown endpapers. Larger print. 182 pp. Toledano 1; Catalog 1. Endpaper A. Some wear and mild.....
Item #071896
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Size: 8vo. 358 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Philosophy; ISBN/EAN: 9780791412572. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. 8vo.
Item #047945
Cambridge University Press, 1997-11-28. Paperback. Near fine paperback. Clean white pages. This book would make a great gift. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #027741
St. Martin's Press, 1989. Hardcover. Near fine hardcover in near fine dust jacket. Light shelf wear. Dust jacket has been placed in a Mylar sleeve. Clean white pages. This book would make a great gift. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #028510
Cambridge: University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gold lettering. lv, 460pp., index. Marginalia and underlining. Other volumes not published in 30's - in 1976 a larger single book was published. Internal ex-library marks. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #028066
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Dust jacket lightly rubbed, name in ink on fly leaf. Size: Quarto. 341 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 4 pounds or less. Category: Philosophy; ISBN: 0262032244. ISBN/EAN: 9780262032247. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Quarto.....
Item #055950
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997. Paperback. Rare. Paperback. Date stamp on half title page. x, 263pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #039992
Paris: Babuty, Fils; Humblot, 1765. Hardcover. Contains previous owner's small inscription describing the author and editor: "par de Freval, publier par Goulin." A brief biography of Claude-François Guillemeau de Fréval follows: b. 1745, d. 1770, an adviser to parliament and a member of the academies de Bordeaux, de la Rochelle.....
Item #013889
La Mirada, CA: Biola University, 2009. First Edition. Paperback. Paperback. Like New. No writing in the book. 266 pp. including advertisements at back. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #026579
Cambridge University Press, 1976. Paperback. A collaborative volume bringing together work in semantics from various disciplines, so that each may inform the other (from back cover). Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #008487
Chicago: Open Court, 2005. Paperback. Second Printing. Pictorial paperback showing Harry Potter's owl Hedwig. Like new condition. [x] 244pp. 1 Page advertisement at back. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #064315
Philadelphia: William Young, 1793. Leather. Stewart was Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Previous owner's name inscribed (John Smith) on front free end paper. Full tree calf leather with original red leather spine label. Worming on first free end paper and title page with minor textual loss.....
Item #037987
Boston: Wells and Lilly, Court-Street, 1828. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1828. TWO VOLUME COMPLETE SET. Hardcover. Matching set is bound in half leather and brown marbled paper boards. Spines are hubbed, bearing four raised bands. Red and black labels are stamped in gilt lettering and lined in.....
Item #070007
Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1829. REPRINT. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Reprint. Complete 7 Volume set. Hardcover. Grey paper boards. Deckled edges. Dugald Stewart (22 November 1753 – 11 June 1828) was a Scottish philosopher and mathematician. Today regarded as one of the most important figures of the later Scottish Enlightenment, he was.....
Item #071010
Perennial Library, 1978. Paperback. White paperback with multicolored themes. Illustration on front cover. Many pages dog-eared, some amount of underlining within. 147 pp. Notes in back. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #063522
London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd / E. P. Dutton & Co., 1909. Reprint 1909. Hardcover. REPRINT, 1909. John Ruskin was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. Volume contains some of Ruskin's essays covering maintenance of life; wealth, money and.....
Item #070406
Wesleyan Univ Pr, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. FIRST EDITION, 1983. TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH. Edmond Jabès was a French writer and poet of Egyptian origin, and one of the best known literary figures writing in French after World War II. The work he produced when living in France in the late.....
Item #008425
New York: Wise, 1922. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth, rear board a bit worn, frontispiece portrait, author's son's signature on publisher's "specially prepared" page (for Joseph A. Daly, M.D."),478pp., front board a bit bowed, no writing in the book, Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #023708
London: MacMillan & Co, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper covered printed boards. Previous owner's name written on front free end-paper. Bookseller's ticket inside front cover. 121pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #036119