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Marx, Reason, and The Art Of Freedom
by Brien, Kevin M
Kevin M. Brien is chair and professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Washington College.
COMMENTARIUM
(Vedere la parte inferiore dell'elenco per la traduzione in italiano.) RARE. Four consecutive paperback volumes with original pictorial dust jackets. Text in Latin. Sparsely illustrated. Each volume has an Index (scans are available upon request). Volume 1958 includes a small card which reads "OMAGGIO del Rettore Magnifico della PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITA' DEL LATERANO". Ex-library but showing only penciled numbers and small date stamps.Books show some edgewear, including minor bumping to tip and heel of...
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$222.22
Donum Dei
by Conférence religieuse canadienne [Canadian Religious Conference]
(Voir en bas pour la traduction en français.) Presumably first edition. This set of French-language religious volumes (except No. 1, which is English) comes from the library of the Grey Nuns and of the Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba. As such, they contain the usual stamps, stickers, numbering, etc. Some volumes have protective jackets, but in general the exteriors are worn, including but not limited to scuffs, abrasions, and sunning, and a number of them have light dampstains and warping. In a...
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$333.33
Works of Henry David Thoreau
by Owens, Lily (Ed)
New York: Avenel. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1981. Reprint. 1. Hard Cover. 0517336308 . Foxing on endpapers, pages are faded. Unclipped dust jacket has a hole in the upper front right corner and shows shelf-wear. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 713 pp .
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$5.00
EXCURSIONS
by THOREAU, Henry David
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. One signature pulled, scattered foxing and staining. Covers lightly soiled with minor wear to the spine, gilt bright. Very Good. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only 1500 were bound. Ten pieces are contained within, including a Biographical Sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by...
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$1,062.50
Oeuvres complčtes de M. Helvetius. 4 Teile in 2 Bänden. Mit einem gestoch. Porträt des Verf. von E. C. Thelott nach L. M. Vanloo als Frontispiz.
by Helvétius, C. A
Deux-Ponts (= Zweibrücken), Sanson, 1784. . Inhalt: Vol. I u. II: Le Bonheur, Poéme (sic!) allégorique en quatre chants. Lettres de M. de Voltaire á M. Helvetius. De L'Esprit I. - Vol. III u. IV: De L'Esprit II / III; Examen des critiques du livre intitulé De L'Esprit; Analyse ... De L'Esprit. - Enth. außerdem Briefe an u. von Helvetius (Montesquieu, Hume, Abbé Chauvelin u. a.) sowie "Vers sur la mort de M. Helvetius" von Dorat. Hier ohne die postum aus seinem Nachlaß bearbeitete Neufassung u....
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$379.96
Sartre A Biographical Introduction
by Thody, Philip Malcolm Waller
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. 0684126745 . Publisher's glossy wraps. 8vo. 160 pp. This is an unmarked copy, tight, square and clean; minor wrinkles on rear cover, else fine. NEAR FINE.. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 160 pp .
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$4.95
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
by WOOLF, Virginia
New York/London: The Fountain Press/The Hogarth Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine is mildly sunned; gilt strong. Near Fine. This edition preceded the English edition (both trade and signed) by three days. Original cinnamon cloth. One of only 492 copies SIGNED by the author (this copy marked "out of series" instead of numbered and belonged to the Yale University Press printer Carl Rollins) of this important and desirable title, a compelling essay on women and writing that has become a classic...
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$9,375.00
NOTES ON VIRGINIA'S CHILDHOOD. A Memoir
by Bell, Vanessa
New York: Frank Hallman., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Number 214 of 300 Numbered copies, printed by Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco. 8vo. Unpaginated. Edited by Richard J. Schaubeck, Jr. Fine in gray cloth, purple titles to the upper cover. No dustwrapper, as issued. Read to the Memoir Club in 1949, Vanessa Bell recalled how her sister was "not very old when speech became the deadliest weapon as used by her", and described the misery she felt as a child...
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$150.00
LYTTON STRACHEY. A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY: Volume I: THE UNKNOWN YEARS 1880-1910 and Volume II: THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932
by HOLROYD, Michael
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1968). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with darkened spines in a Near Fine slipcase. Two volumes. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. Holroyd was the first person to have unrestricted access to Strachey's papers including previously unpublished correspondence from many who comprised the Bloomsbury group.
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$43.80
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[WORKS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON]
by EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900 (1880s). Reprint. Hardcover. Minor rubbing and wear. Near Fine and with a charming look on the shelf. Ten small (4-1/2" x 6-1/8") volumes bound by Stikeman & Co. for Charles Scribner's in 3/4 green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines, top edges gilt. Though not numbered on the spines, these appear to be from a 12-volume set and includes NATURE, ADDRESS AND LECTURES, ESSAYS I: FIRST SERIES, ESSAYS II: SECOND SERIES,...
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$750.00
CAPE COD
by THOREAU, Henry David
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to moderate foxing. Spine gilt bright with some fraying to the tips and edges. Very Good. Original purple cloth. Binding A, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December 1864.
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$750.00
The Thomas Hart Benton Murals in the Missouri State Capitol, A Social History of the State of Missouri
by Nancy Edelman
From the Foreword: "The Thomas Hart Benton mural is painted on the four walls of the House Lounge, a large meeting room on the third floor in the West Wing of the Missouri State Capitol. Many newspaper and magazine articles have been written about these murals, both commending and condemning them. Mr. Benton himself wrote and said a great deal about these paintings." "This booklet attempts to draw together the various data and present a brief illustrated guide to the murals." There is a chapter on the...
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$10.00
Études leibniziennes. De Leibniz ŕ Hegel.
by Belaval, Yvon
Paris, Gallimard, (1976). . Der französische Philosoph Yvon Bélaval (1908-1988) war Professor an der Universität von Lille, später an der Sorbonne u. Vize-Präsident der Leibniz-Gesellschaft. Er widmete sich besonders den Studien über Leibniz u. dessen Einfluß auf Voltaire, Diderot u. Hegel. - Deckelränder sauber mit Klarsichtstreifen verstärkt.
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$27.14
I HATE THIS PART OF TEXAS 3 (zine)
by John Gerken (ed.)
RARE. Approx. 36 p.; ill. (some spraypaint colour to covers). Ex-library with stamp (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg), mild shelf/edgewear, and staples have been removed, but text appears complete and is otherwise in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition. An Arkansas punk rock zine dealing with poverty, alternative lifestyles, conscious living, community, history, and social commentary. It is a liberally illustrated little booklet packed full of musings, information, humour,...
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$20.20
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EPHEMERIDES THEOLOGICAE LOVANIENSES [Louvain Journal of Theology] (47 Vols.)
by Cerfaux, et al. (eds.) in Universitate Catholica Lovaniensi Professorum [Professors at the Catholic University of Louvain]
(Voir ci-dessous pour la traduction française. // Imo quicquid sexus est videre Latina translatione.) RARE COLLECTION. Presumably first edition. This set of 47 multilingual volumes of a religious periodical span from 1950 to 1967 and includes quite a few pieces of ephemera (flyers, cards, etc.). The main languages used are Latin and French, but there may be also English, German, and Dutch. Some volumes are sparsely illustrated in black and white. The content consists mainly of academic articles,...
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$1,314.15
THE ESSAYS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Volume II. 1912-1918. Edited and signed By Andrew McNeillie
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1987), 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. First American Edition Inscribed by Editor Andrew McNeillie on the title page. "D- from Andrew, Andover October '89, with best wishes, A McNeillie". A fine copy in 1/4 wine cloth over beige paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 381 pp. A brilliant collection, spanning the years 1912 to 1918, again proving Woolf at her critical best. Includes her now famous,...
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$160.00
Sophies Message /Jenaer Vor-Sätze zu einer Multimedia-Philosophie - Philotainment Version 1.0
by Funken, Michael
Königshausen u. Neumann. Taschenbuch. 235x155 mm.
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$6.51
Erkenntnis und Wahrheit. Des Arbeiterphilosophen universelle Denkweise und naturmonistische Anschauung über Lebenskunst, Ökonomie, Philosophie, Religion und Sozialismus. Zu seinem zwanzigsten Todestag gesammelt u: hrsg. von Eugen Dietzgen.
by Dietzgen, Josef
Stuttgart, J. H. W. Dietz, 1908. . Erste Ausgabe. - Der Gerber u. philosophische Autodidakt Josef Dietzgen (1828-1888), von Marx auf dem Haager Kongress der Internationalen Arbeiterassoziation 1872 als "unser Philosoph" begrüßt, war ein dialektischer Materialist, Feuerbach, Marx u. Engels nahestehend. Der Hrsg. Eugen Dietzgen ist der Sohn des Arbeiterphilosophen. - Sehr vereinzelt einige Unterstreichungen. Gutes Exemplar
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$21.71
Prison and Chocolate Cake
by Nayantara Sahgal
First edition, stated. xvi, 236 p., iii; illustrated; 21 cm. Includes Glossary (235-236) and Index (i-iii). Black cloth hardcover with charming deckled edge paper, decoration and lettering in copper and silver gilt to cover and spine, shows only very mild shelfwear and sunning to edges, while the inside is in Fine condition, with numerous photographic reproductions. The dust jacket, however, is present in tatters. Please see listing images. From dust jacket: The lighthearted and glamorous story of her...
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$33.33
Four Texts on Socrates : Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Critor, and Aristophanes' Clouds
by West, Thomas; West, Grace
Cornell University Press, 1984. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.57
Juxtsuppose, Issue 2 (zine)
by Billy Reuben and Brad Yung (eds.)
RARE. 47 p.; ill. (some colour) and pop-ups. Ex-library with number in pen and stamp (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg), mild wear to extremities, and one photo corner has become unglued, otherwise internally Near Fine. Working largely with remixed "found" content, this comedic zine is profusely illustrated, including comics, and contains many "interactive" pages: business card in photo corners (pg. 15)pop-up satellite (pg. 21)pop-up pig tug-o-war (pg. 29)censoring paper over...
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$44.44
Passenger to Teheran. With a new introduction by Nigel Nicolson.
by [Travel Memoir] Sackville-West, V
New York:: Moyer Bell,, 1990.. First Printing of the First Reprint Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to the spine. First published in 1926 by the Hogarth Press, this account of Sackville-West's 1926 trip to Iran is full of the author's poignant observations on travel, travelers and Persia. Her son Nigel Nicholson provides, in his introduction, many new personal details of the journey that were omitted from the original edition. Includes many photographs all...
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$125.00
Emergence of a Free Press
by Leonard W Levy
From the back cover: "What did 'freedom of the press' really mean to the framers of the First Amendment and their contemporaries?
This book "...answers that question." "Mr Levy argues that the First Amendment was not designed to be the bulwark of a free press as many thought, nor had the amendment's framers intended to overturn the common law of seditious libel that was the principal means of stifling political dissent."
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This book "...answers that question." "Mr Levy argues that the First Amendment was not designed to be the bulwark of a free press as many thought, nor had the amendment's framers intended to overturn the common law of seditious libel that was the principal means of stifling political dissent."
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$19.95
Fresh-Air Fiend Travel Writings, 1985-2000
by Theroux, Paul
London: Hamish Hamilton. 2000. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details to front free end paper and half-title page. xxiv, 452 pages. An extensive collection of Theroux's shorter travel writings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$11.91
The Forgotten Half of Change Achieving Greater Creativity through Changes in Perception
by Luc de Brabandere
From back DJ: "...it's become pretty clear that the pace of change in a global economy demands not only innovation, but creativity. We must become as good at changing our perceptions as we have become at changing reality." "...markets that are forcing them [corporations] not only to improve but transform themselves." "...entertains and challenges its readers at the same time with an array of examples drawn from philosophy, mathematics, technology, and linguistics."Fine condition. New book, clean and...
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$20.00
