Search Results: Philosophy from Singularity Rare & Fine

New York: HarperOne, 2015. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New. Stated First Edition and First Printing. New York: HarperOne, 2015. Deepak Chopra's 'The 13th Disciple", first/first. Octavo, dust jacket design by Jeff Miller, marbled deep-bronze boards with gilt spine imprinting, 281 pp. New; pristine in every way. A spiritual adventure with Chopra, involving the mysterious 13th disciple of Jesus - and more from there. See scans. L48n

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2001. First Edition of the University of Chicago Press edition. With a new preface written in 2001. Octavo, wraps, 222 pp. Near Fine; corners barely touched, couple of micro nicks. Sharp copy, clean and bright. Following on Dorman's Peabody Award-winning documentary of 1999, this is the book version of the tracking of the thoughts and careers of four New York City writers - Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell and Nathan Glazer. LT-7

New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new; without flaw. New York: Harper Perennial, 1994. Carlos Castaneda's 'The Art of Dreaming' first Harper Perennial edition, later printing. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, x + 260 pp. As New. See scans. L83

New York : Signet, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. As New; see scans and description. New York: Signet, 1996. Stated Signet first printing of the Leonard Peikoff Introduction edition, also Student Edition / "not for resale" provided through The Rodney Fund of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). Atlas Shrugged, ISBN 9780451231710. Thick 12mo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 1,088 pp. (viii + 1,080). As New, carefully preserved since 1996 by a university professor. One tiny micro-tweak at top right corner (zoom on cover scan); otherwise, flawless. A scarce version, of the many versions, of Ayn Rand's classic. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L7n

San Francisco: City Lights, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. San Francisco: City Lights, 1959. First Edition thus, amended slightly from the original essay published in the Summer issue of Chicago Review, and presumed first (and perhaps only) printing. Octavo, wraps, 25 pp. Very Good Plus to about Near Fine; some small foxing spots on covers, two pages inside with short pencil lines. See scans. Handsome copy of an essay in which Watts clarified his absence of membership in any organized grouping of zensters - "square" (far eastern organized Buddhist zen or "Beat" (On the Road Dharma Bum type zen), and instead clarifies that the real experience is unique to each individual - or should be. Scarce piece from the historic City Lights house, in any condition. L68

New York: Viking, 1985. First American Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. New York: Viking, 1985. First American Edition. Octavo, 989 pp. Red cloth, gilt spine imprinting, photopictorial jacket. About Near Fine; nice copy. Book shows unidentifiable stain at bottom page edges (probably not a remainder); jacket shows small area of adhesive stain from a removed sticker at top right of cover, has very small-scale edge curling, small scrapes on rear panel; Very Good. Volume three (only) of Laurence's scholarly four-volume aggregation of "Shavian" correspondence, published over more than twenty years. L-46n

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Book in a Fine dust jacket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Stated First Edition. Octavo, jacket with art by Rob Wynne, gray and marbled paper boards with gilt spine imprinting, xiv + 253 pp. + 2. Fine/fine, really quite As New. Survey of romantic relationships from a feminist perspective. See scans. L20n

New York: Pantheon Books, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. New. See scans and description. New York: Pantheon Books, 2014. 'The Book of Heaven: A Novel', by Patricia Storace. Octavo, illustrated jacket, white boards with black thread texturing, 366 pp. (365 +1). New, and flawless, though there is a retailer's bar code sticker over the jacket bar code on jacket rear panel (see scans). Prize-winning poet Storace tells a tale in which the question "what if a woman's point of view were God's?" is examined. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L31

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Near Fine first edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition and First Printing of the softcover edition. Octavo, photo-illustrated wraps, 260 pp. Near Fine; touch micro-wear at extremities. See scan. Humanistic essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist, environmentalist, humanist and natural philosopher. L-33n

New York: Bantam Books, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Bantam Books, January, 1990. First Edition and First Printing, with complete number line. Octavo, illustrated jacket, gray and black boards, gilt spine imprinting, 401 pp. Near Fine book with a small stain spot on top page edges in a Very Good jacket which would be fine but for a closed triangular slit at top of rear jacket panel; not price clipped. L-104

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Octavo. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title. Octavo, 117 pp. Slate blue boards and pictorial slate-blue jacket. Near fine book in a VG+ price-clipped jacket with a faint small sticker shadow and very minimal peripheral wear. See scan (which is taken with the book protected by mylar, somewhat compromising color vividness). Under his much more familiar pseudonym, John Norman, Lange wrote the entire Gor series of Science Fiction titles which, because of the richness of its concept of sexual and other slavery as a contextually beautiful thing, spawned an entire branch of the BDSM community, that being Gorean BDSM. The Cognitivity Paradox is the only title authored by Lange alone under his given name, and this copy was the first one he signed, as per his statement to the original owner (provenance to purchase). The book… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine. See scans and description. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons, by Tu Wei-Ming. ISBN 0674160878. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, xii + 418 pp. Near Fine, with scant light signs of prior use; clean, bright, tight and unmarked in any way. See scans. LT18

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. First Edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Critics of the Bible, 1724-1873 (Cambridge English Prose Texts series), by John Drury, Dean of King's College, Cambridge. Octavo, brown cloth boards with red and gilt front cover label, gilt imprinting on spine, 213 (ix + 204) pp. Very Near Fine, with moderate sunning at top of rear cover (see scans). No other salient flaws. A handsome first edition example of the richly-credentialed John Drury's presentation and examination of religious writings by Anthony Collins, Thomas Sherlock, Robert Lowth, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Arnold, Benjamin Jowett, and Matthew Arnold. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course - not a bag. LT26

Lubeck & Frankfurt (Lubeca & Francofurti): Samuel Otton (Samuelem Ottonem) & Joannem Wiedemeyerum, 1683. Second Edition . Period Vellum. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very Good. See scans and description. Lubeck and Frankfurt: Samuelem Ottonem and Joannem Wiedemeyerum, 1683. Second Edition. 12mo, 6.75" x 3.75". [60], 420 pp. Period vellum. Some cover wear, darkening and mostly marginal staining to contents, else very good. See scans. Vintage owner's bookplate at the front inside cover. Richard Cumberland's classic of the Ethics branch of philosophy, largely seen as a response to Thomas Hobbes' "ethical egoism", which it was; beyond that, however, Cumberland's attitudes can be seen as a synthesis of prevailing royal, social, political and academic attitudes in Restoration England. Cumberland argued that a universal benevolence motivates each human being to altruism, in contradiction of Hobbesian exercise of free… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. First Edition Thus and first printing, Anchor A72 designation on spine and top left front cover. Wraps, 12mo, 187 pp. + list of Anchor books. A very sharp copy; spine sunned, else virtually Near Fine. With the sunned spine, Very Good. Five essays by Ortega y Gasset laying out his opinions on visual art and literature at the time of their original writing (1949 through 1952). L68

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine. See scans and description. New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Touchstone edition, second printing. Fred Alan Wolf's 'The Eagle's Quest'. Octavo, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 318 + 1 pp. Near Fine; spine ends micro-touched, no other salient flaws, inside or out. Cover blotches are part of the publisher's intended 'parchment' look. Sharp, bright, tight. See scans. An engrossing look, a la Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li Masters, of the as-yet still inexplicable interweaving of hard physics and age-old mysticism. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L49n

Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element Books Limited, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK: Element Books Limited, 1995. Octavo, illustrated wraps by Max Fairbrother, 136 pp. Fine; no flaws. Bright and tight, almost As New. L-33n

New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, jacket designed by Tom McKeveny, black boards with gilt spine imprinting, 342 pp. Near Fine book with very minor spine lean and a small light smudge on top page edges, in a Near Fine unclipped jacket with small-scale imperfections. Dark Matter as it was - sort of - understood at the time; and not much about that has changed since. L-31

Hoofddorp, the Netherlands: Sanoma Media Netherlands B.V., 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. New; completely pristine. See scans and description. Hoofddorp, the Netherlands: Sanoma Media Netherlands B.V., 2017. Issue 16 (2017) of Flow magazine. Large quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 163 pp. plus the pages of the several inserts noted. New, and flawless. The three inserts of this issue - Seven Day Offline Booklet; Flow Coloring Book; Fresh From Flow mini-catalog of paper items. See all scans. A very expensively-produced and quite charming example of one direction New Thought has taken - New Thought having itself evolved from the teachings of Phineas Quimby in the mid-1800s, and having become very self-diversified since. Graphically and spiritually very engaging. The "Magazine for Paper Lovers" is, of course, far more than that. Check both the contents pages (scans) for some detail on what's within, but a few topics are: New… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Doubleday, 2014. First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, illustrated jacket, blue and black boards with silver spine imprinting, xviii + 377 pp. +1. As New, and better than that; completely flawless and pristine. Even the spine ends - book and jacket - are military straight and untouched, and will stay that way in archival protection. A collector copy if there ever was one of the 1st/1st of Michio Kaku's remarkable adventure into understanding - scientifically and analytically - consciousness. Tall order, but he's up for giving it a scholarly yet engaging go. Neither Kaku nor any scientist at this point will be able to cross the last river and explain what "self-awareness" is, as distinct from what happens physically when it goes on; but then they aren't philosophers, and philosophers can't even do that yet. When it will happens, it will… Read More