Philosophy Books

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. Original grey trade paperback with flaps. Discusses" the problem of possibility and the function of reason in investigating it and of the function of reason in rendering experience intelligible."- flap. Previous owner's name. No other marks or damage. 97 pp.. First ( No Additional printings). Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1955. Original faded red cloth on boards. Textbook with some underlining and marginal notes. Four parts: Introductory, Nature and Man, Knowledge and Being, God and Creatures. Considers Nature, Man, Soul, Will, and other subjects. 662 pp. with index.. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1990. Original brown paper boards backed in red cloth. Pictorial DJ unclipped. A history of philosophers, ideas, and movements. Previous owner's name (twice). 447 pp. including index.. First ( No Additional printings). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1890. Original dark blue cloth with gold spine lettering on boards. Front hinge lightly cracked at title, but no other damage. Previous owner's name stamp. Various essays on Darwinism, modern witchcraft, liberal education, etc. 374 pp. with index.. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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N.Y.: Henry Holt and Col, 1892. Original dark blue cloth on boards. Believed 1930? reprint. No DJ. No front free endpaper, OW very good. Minor pencil underlines/notations. 208 pp. including index.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1990. Original black paper boards backed in red. Unclipped white DJ lettered in black and red. Introduction by William F. Buckley, Jr. The Leftist Mind, Leftism in History, Liberalism, The Left and U.S. Foreign Policy, Appendix, Notes, Index. 520 pp.. First ( No Additional printings). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Original dark green blindstamped cloth on boards. Vol. II has damage to top outer corner and last index page, as well as serious gutter crack at p.240, but all readable. Vol. I has 541 pp. Vol. II has 527 pp. Both volumes grubby, but unmarked. This 17th Century English empiricist strongly influenced our democratic traditions, arguing that consent of the governed is the uppermost value by which any government's legitimacy may be measured. It is from Locke that we get the saying that the mind is a "blank slate." . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Frontispiece Portrait in Vol. II. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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N.Y.: H.M. Caldwell Co.. Original brown suede with pictorial insert on copper plate, on flexible boards. The author, 4th Baronet and 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913) was accepted into his father's bank, and became a partner at the age of 22. Active in politics, he served as Liberal Party Member of Parliament and is credited with carrying numerous parliamentary acts. He had an avid interest in the study of bees, on which he wrote at least one book. As a student of archaeology, he is credited with coining the terms, paleolithic and neolithic, as described in his very popular textbook, Pre-historic Times. This book is a series of short meditations on topics of importance to everyone - The Duty of Happiness, The Blessing of Friends, and The Value of Time, for example. Previous owner's name. Marbled endpapers. Both covers are well-attached, but have edge wear. Top edges gilt. 292 pp.. Full Leather. Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Frontispiece Portrait. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. (more information)

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Cambridge: University Press, 1912. Original blue cloth decorated with gold shield, with gold lettering on spine, on light boards. No writing or damage. Newspaper clipping of author's retirement glued to first front endpaper. Part I, Congenital Endowment; Its Nature and Treatment. Part II, Educative Influences. Part III, Sound Judgment. Part IV, Self-Development and Self-Control. 262 pp. with index, plus ads. MacCunn was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus to Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell. Original full brown leather with gold crest and spine lettering on flexible boards. Front hinge cracked. Translated by George Long. Life and philosophy of this Second Century nobleman, who abandoned poetry and rhetoric to attach himself to philosophy. The study of law served him well. He joined the Stoics. He became emperor in 161 A.D., in partnership with his step-brother, L. Verus, whose daughter he married. 298 pp. including index.. Full Leather on Flexible Board. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited Photo Front.. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. (more information)

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Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978. Original blue cloth on boards. Plain white and grey DJ. Arguments and definitions of "value", etc. First published in 1847. 221 pp. with name index.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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N.Y.: H.M. Caldwell Company. Original blindstamped black cloth on boards. Superb Edition stated on cover. Gilt decoration worn. Writing on cover and foot edges. Bookplate and clipping glued in. Text clean and undamaged. Binding secure. 193 pp. . Superb Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Portrait Front.. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. (more information)

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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1952. Original black cloth on boards. Price-clipped DJ has very minor wear head and foot with one tiny tear repaired inside. "A great authority on the law sums up his belief in the justice of the courts as against the substitute agencies.! - DJ. 98 pp.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Oxford, England: Oxford/ Clarendon Press, 1967. Original dark blue cloth on boards. University of New Brunswick Library stamp. First free endpaper missing. Logical background, Logical categories, Real, Rational, Mind, Abstract right, Wrong, Punishment, Morality, Moral teleology, Ethical order, Family, Civil society, State. Index. 271 pp.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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N.Y.: George H. Doran Co., 1922. Original blue cloth on boards. Hand soiled. Untrimmed edges. Cracked front hinge has been glued. Previous owner's initials. A how-to book for life. Riddell was a prominent British newspaper publisher who used his position to share news of WWI with the outside when it might have been stifled otherwise. He is known especially for his benevolence to hospitals. 199 pp.. First ( No Additional printings). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Portrait Frontispiece. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1935. Original dark blue cloth on boards. Previous owners' names. Origins, Nature of Law, Law of Nature. An endeavour to show how legal and political institutions have been influenced by magic, religion, and science, and how these forces have been influenced by the law. Times Literary Supplement review of this book laid in. 354 pp.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1889. Original dark green cloth on boards. Swing grew up in Ohio, where he attended Miami University with Benjamin Harrison. He became a well-known Presbyterian preacher, and a confidant of President and Mrs. Lincoln. Tried for heresy, he resigned and started his own church. This book is a series of general essays on Intellectual Progress, Home, Beauty, etc., with religious undertones. 239 pp.. New and Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (more information)

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N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Original maroon cloth with black letters and borders on blindstamped boards. Introduction and notes by Rev. Henry Lewis. 347 pp. including glossary and index. I recommend searching the web to get a brief impression of Bacon before delving into his written works, for although they are not without merit, they require careful study to realize and evaluate it. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. (more information)

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London: Charles Griffin and Company. Original black, blindstamped cloth on boards. Gilt spine lettering. Quite rare. No dates given, but believed to be from the second edition, circa 1850-60, since Logic is not in the First Division of the original edition of 1829. Richard Whately became Archbishop of Dublin in 1831. Previous owner's name in exquisite script. 112 pp. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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