Philosophy from Evening Star Books

Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co, 1916. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [4], 2-243, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. With a frontispiece laid in, the portrait of Russell is printed on white paper stock smaller than the rest of the pageblock. Blackwell and Ruja A15.2a. A… Read more

New York: E.P. Dutton [1979], 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [10], xi-xii, [6], 3-238, [2] pp. Quarter blue cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A meditation on concepts in biology, psychology, and the philosophy of… Read more

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [6], 2-230, [4] pp. Beige cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of £10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An exploration of ethics and the challenges ethical theory faces in the modern world. Williams argues that ethical theory is… Read more

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [3], 2-415, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Part of the Oxford Ethics series, edited by Derek Parfit. An exploration of how far individuals normally go to behave morally, and to promote the general welfare of others.… Read more

New York: Bantam Books (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-409, [1] pp. Quarter navy blue cloth over blue gray paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $22.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Pirsig's second philosophical novel, exploring morality and what makes life worth living. Minor foxing… Read more

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [9], 2-411, [5] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and the publisher's device on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. A collection of thirteen papers from Evans, published just after his untimely death. Two of the papers here were not previously published. Evans is best remembered for… Read more

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. [1931], 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 13-277, [1], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Red cloth with silver lettering and a black decoration on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on the rear panel of the jacket. Russell here explores the real-world impact… Read more

London: Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-lviii, 1-470 pp. Bound in light brown cloth with publishers device and lettering stamped in gold on the spine. Price of £18 Net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dummett was one of the most important philosophers of the latter half… Read more

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-xxxviii, [4], 5-136, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. With an introduction by Richard Warner. One of the last works of Grice, unfinished at the time of his death. His treatise is a defense of his view of necessity: its nature, how it… Read more

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [4], 3-203, [5] pp. Bound in black cloth with publisher's device and lettering in gilt blocked in pink on the spine, light grey topstain. Price of $7.50 on top corner of front jacket flap (UK price on bottom corner clipped). Slater 843. A nice… Read more

New Haven: Yale University Press [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-xiii, [1], 1-258 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. An explanation of Parsons' theory of fictional, abstract, and mythical objects drawn on the philosophy of language and logic. Parsons' work differs from Russell's, and results in an original and fascinating take… Read more

New York: New York University Press [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], ix-x, 1-182 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. An exploration of different aspects of the philosophy of language, Travis' work here differs from Chomsky and Tarsky.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Very Good. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [4], v-xv, [1], 538, [6]; [4], v-xvii, [1], 554, [2] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering blocked in blue on the spine, a gold decoration depicting an ancient Greek coin on each front board. Volume one covers the earlier… Read more

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/very near Fine. 8vo. [11], 2-158 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £4.25 net in UK on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by Samuel Guttenplan. With contributions from Donald Davidson, G.E.M. Anscombe, Quine, Dummett, Geach, and others. A real "who's-who" of philosophers… Read more

New York: W. W. Norton & Co. [2003], 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [12], 319, [5] pp. Quarter black paper boards over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Minor wear to the extremities.

[London]: Methuen (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Slim 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [3], 2-98, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. An interdisciplinary treatise, with discussions in moral philosophy (including the experience of morality and its qualities), discussions in epistemology, and discussions in metaphysics. Difficult to find in the first edition in collectible condition. … Read more

New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii, [4], 3-275, [1] pp. Blue paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. An analytical study of the philosophy of mathematics and the history of mathematics beginning with the Renaissance continuing to the work Leibniz completed on the calculus.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1975), 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-xiv, [2], 328, [6] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Slater 738. Volume one only of Putnam's three-volume collection of early and influential papers in the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, metaphysics,… Read more

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-lvi, [1], 2-535, [1], 1-8 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [4], v-lxxiii, [3], 3-538, [2], 1-8 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. A pleasing set of Plato's masterful work on justice and governance.… Read more

London: Routledge (1990), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], vii-xii, [2], 268, [4] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Part of the Problems of Philosophy series, edited by Ted Honderich. This excellent historical study of the notion of the infinite begins with the pre-Socratic Zeno and continues to Wittgenstein and Gödel.