Search Results: LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral IntegrityLewis, Charles, Published by PublicAffairs, New York, 2014. First Edition.Quarter black over white boards, red spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 364 pages including index. Volume in unread condition; light crease to lower front of unclipped dustjacket which is otherwise fine.

Beyond the Outsider: The Philosophy of the Future, Wilson, Colin. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965. First Edition. 236pp. Tan cloth covered boards with black spine titles, top edge orange. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in an unclipped jacket with very light shelf wear.

Bricks to Babel: Selected Writings with Comments by the Author, Koestler, Arthur. Published by Hutchinson & Co 1980. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Pp.697. Black boards with gilt spine titles. Both volume and unclipped dustjacket (protected in mylar) are in mint condition. Arthur Koestler, CBE was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Bricks to Babel is a collection compiled from Koestler's lifetime writings follows his progress from seeking political solutions to solve mankind's problems to his attempting to find ultimate meaning in science and philosophy

Cicero Orations, Cicero; translated by D. H. Berry. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2011. Translated with Introductions and Notes by D. H. Berry. Preface by Peter Stothard. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 397pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, indexed, color illustrations by Tom Phillips. Lilac cloth boards with gilt titles and borders, black and white onlay to front board and colour onlay to rear, dark mauve endpapers; housed in slipcase. Small inscription to half title and otherwise volume presents as new; light scratches to bottom of slipcase which is otherwise fine.

The Classics and The Man of Letters: The Presidential Address delivered to the Classical Association on 15th April 1942, T.S. Eliot, Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto, 1942. First Edition; early printing (see Donald Gallup A40). 12mo up to 7½" tall., 27pp. Light blue, yapped-edge card covers with black titles front; sewn binding with two sewn signatures. Contents in fine condition and appear unread without marks, tears or folds. Light wear and sunning to card edges; front card has 2 pin pricks and 2 small water marks. T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), was poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor and publisher and considered one of the 20th century's major poets. His many awards include: Order of Merit (United Kingdom 1948), Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France 1951), Presidential Medal of Freedom (USA 1964), the Nobel Prize in Literature (1948). The Classical Association was founded in 1903 to encourage both academics and amateur to share and discuss their passion for Classics

The Collected Letters of Alan Watts, Alan Watts, Anne Watts. Published by New World Library, United States, 2018. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 588pp. index, photos. Contents are in fine, unread, unmarked condition; top corner edge crease to front cover and tiny rub to lower corner. Philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings and lectures online, while faithful followers worldwide continue to be enlightened by his teachings. The Collected Letters of Alan Watts reveals the remarkable arc of Watts's colorful and controversial life, from his school days in England to his priesthood in the Anglican Church as chaplain of Northwestern University to his alternative lifestyle and experimentation with LSD in the heyday of the late sixties. His engaging letters cover a vast range of subject matter, with recipients ranging from High Church clergy to… Read More

Paris, France: Bibliotheque Larousse. Soft cover. Very Good. Comédies et Proverbes ( 3 vols ) De Musset Alfred Yellow Fabric Card Covers with Blue Design Front and Back; Blue Titles. Black and White Frontis; Ads Back Pages. No Date, Circa 1935. These 3 Volumes are in Very Good Plus Condition; No Markings, Torn or Missing Pages. Slight Toning and Slight Cover Wear.

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A: Hyperion Books,, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Hyperion Books, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A, 2005. Stated First Edition with complete number line. Black boards; gilt spine titles. Contents in mint condition; unclipped jacket is fine to as new.

A Dictionary of Quotations from Authors Old and New, Together with an Alphabet of Proverbs, Volume I and II, Moorhead, J K; Lee, Charles (Editor Ernest Rhys). Everyman Series 809/810. Published by J M Dent & Sons Ltd; Dutton and Sons, New York. Circa 1928. 16mo up to 6½" tall., xvi, 380; viii, 425 pages. Maroon silky cloth, gilt decorative spine titles; top edge green; illustrated green endpapers. Contents in mint condition, light fading mark and spots to front boards; binding is square and tight. Endpapers are of the figure of Good Deeds and the pledge of her sister Knowledge to Everyman in the medieval play, designed by Reginald L. Knowles and used from 1906-34; binding style is from The Shield Era 1928-34. A lovely little set.

Dimensions of Baha'i Law, Danesh, Roshan. Published by Baha'i Publishing, USA, 2019. Card covers. 286pp. with index. Inscription to dedication page from Mary Danesh. Contents are otherwise in fine, unread condition; card covers have very light shelf wear. Organized around four distinct areas—Baha'u'llah's conception of law itself, the constitutional dimensions of the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah's theory of social change and the role of law in social change, and existing scholarship and discourse concerning Baha'i law—the essays collected here are expansive and illuminating, and they provide an invaluable contribution to discourse on the subject.

Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne (The Harvard Classics), Charles W. Eliot (editor). Published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York, 1968, 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 332 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition as per spine. Green faux leather with gilt decorative borders and colophon front and gilt spine titles; gold endpapers. Contents In mint, unread condition; light rubbing to tail of spine and otherwise fine. Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education, by John Milton; Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne. Volume 3 of the Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot.

Essays English and American (Thackeray, Newman, Ruskin, Huxley, Thoreau and Others (The Harvard Classics) Thackeray; Newman; Ruskin; Huxley; Thoreau et al. Eliot, Charles W. (Editor); Published by P. F. Collier & Son, 1968. 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 420 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition as per spine. Green faux leather with gilt decorative borders and colophon front and gilt spine titles; gold endpapers. Contents In mint, unread condition; light bump head of spine and otherwise fine. This is Volume 28 of the Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot. Twelve nineteenth-century authors are anthologized in this volume including English prose artists Arnold and Ruskin and the American authors Thoreau and Lowell. Their subjects range from personal biographies on Milton, Swift and Lincoln to topical… Read More

The Essential Colin Wilson, Wilson, Colin. Published by George G. Harrap & Co Ltd,, London, 1985. First Edition. 248pp. Black cloth boards. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket.

Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in Shakespeare and Marlowe, Lawrence, Sean. Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, 2012. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 244 pages including index, notes. Brown boards, gilt spine titles. Unclipped dustjacket has very light shelf wear. Volume is in unread condition without marks, tears or folds. Front board has a light binding flaw top edge.
"Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self-interest".

Max Weber - A Biography, Joachim Radkau. Published by Polity Press, United Kingdom, 2011. First English Edition translated by Patrick Camiller. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 700 pages including chronology, index and notes. Very light shelf wear to covers and outer edge; otherwise pristine and unread. "Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences - for nearly 80 years, our understanding of the life of Max Weber was dominated by the biography published in 1926 by his widow, Marianne Weber. ...When Joachim Radkau s biography appeared in Germany in 2005 it caused a sensation. Based on an abundance of previously unknown sources and richly embedded in the German history of the time, this is the first fully comprehensive biography of Max Weber ever to appear."Joachim Radkau, is an esteemed Professor of Modern History at the Bielefeld University, Germany.

The Odyssey of Homer, Homer, Butcher, S.H. And Lang, A. (Translated by) Charles W. Eliot (editor). Published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York, 1968, 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 334 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition as per spine. Green faux leather with gilt decorative borders and colophon front and gilt spine titles; gold endpapers. In mint, unread condition. This is Volume 22 of the Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot.

Pig City Model Farm: A Handbook on Architecture and AgricultureKovitz, Rob. Published by Treyf/Coach House Press, Toronto, 1992. Card covers. Non paginated, includes black and white photograsm graphic and illustrations, notes and appendices. Light shelf wear to card covers, contents are in fine condition without marks, tears or folds. "If we could suddenly see this arranged order as it will be seen in its full functioning, it is not to be doubted that many of the Civilized would be struck dead by the violence of their ecstasy."" A disturbing but amusing book about architecture, agriculture, and utopia. About instrumental thinking and rational method versus irony and doubt as anti-method. About copronomy and building design, model farms, country-life, class status in the Chinese countryside, Ultra-Sweet Pignectar, an architect's first sexual experience, Charles Fourier, Marcel Duchamp, paranoia, poisonous fruit, and how things become their opposite.

Plato's Republic, Blackburn, Simon. Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 181pp. with index. Blue boards with gilt titles and black endpapers. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket. Books That Changed the World Series.

Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory, Ann Vasaly. Published by University of California Press Ltd., Berkley, Los Angeles, Oxford, 1993. First Edition. Blue cloth boards, blue spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 301 pages including bibliography, general index, index of ancient authors, illustrations. In mint, unread condition; unclipped dustjacket has light scuffing otherwise fine.Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu—social, political, topographical—is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, ancient oratory becomes performance art.Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world—places, topography, and monuments, both those seen and those merely mentioned—to his listeners and demonstrates how he used these representations to persuade. Her exceptionally… Read More

Sartre, Grene, Marjorie. Published by New Viewpoints / Franklin Watts, 1973. First Issue soft cover. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 301 pages Card covers and spine have creases; contents in pristine condition. This is an extensive study of Sartre as philosopher and writer by American philosopher Marjorie Glicksman Grene (1910-2009). Grene wrote on existentialism and the philosophy of science and is considered the founder of the philosophy of biology. She received various awards, distinguished professorships, and honorary degrees throughout her career and in 2002 she became the first woman included in the Library of Living Philosophers.