Iena: Eugen Diederich, 1909. First German edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [2], 57, [3]pp. Original paper covered boards with title label laid on spine and front cover. Top edge red. Ribbon marker. This remarkable work explores the theme of metaphysics and seeks to establish true philosophical understanding via thought reconstruction. Minor shelf..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. VII, [1], 200, [12]pp. Original dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable introduction to the meaning of what is comical: What does laughter mean? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi. 250 pp. Embossed red cloth in original printed dust jacket. Inscribed to the philosopher Henry Slouminsky by the author on front endpaper. An interesting outline of a philosophy of education which is related to the economic and political tendencies..... More
New York: Spinoza Institute of America, inc., 1934. Softcover. 8vo. 239pp. Original wrappers. Staining, scuffing and some creasing to wraps. Three-inches of backstrip on tail,- and small part of backstrip on head of spine missing. Writing in pencil on inside of back wrapper and sporadic markings in pencil to a...... More
New York: Russell & Russell Inc., 1962. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv, 454pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. First published in 1940, this study of the 17th century Dutch Jewish philosopher Benedict Spinoza seeks to draw attention to the philosopher's psychology as opposed to the traditional scholarly..... More
New York: MacMillan & Co., 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. lxii,320pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original price-clipped dust jacket. Tail of spine and bottom corners bumped, boards slightly bowed. Some sunning on dj. Dust jacket in very good, binding in good+, interior in near fine condition. More
Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company Inc., 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 354pp. Original printed dust-jacket over black cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on title page. Remarkable work in which the author presents a lucid exposition of the philosophy of science - that..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxi. 323pp. Blue cloth. Faded gilt lettering to spine. Corners slightly bumped. Some rubbing to boards. Fore and bottom page edges untrimmed. Included bibliography. In good condition. More
New York: Paine-Whitman, 1962. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [18],585pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. Professor Farber explains the origin, development, and function of phenomenology with a view towards its significance for philosophy in general. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Name of previous..... More
Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 46 (1)pp. Rebound in blue leather with gilt lettering on cover, raised bands. Decorative endpapers. Blue ribbon marker. Paper representing a lecture given by Gomperz at the "Philosophischen Gesellschaft" at the Vienna University on January 13, 1928. According to..... More
Columbus: Slavica, (July, 1983). Softcover. 8vo. 94pp. Original printed wraps. Powerful memorial by Morris Halle on Russian linguist and literary theorist, Roman Jacobson (1896-1982). Minor creasing and scuffing on wraps. Wrappers in very good, interior in near fine condition. Volume XXVII: Supplement of "International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics."..... More
New York: New York University Bookstore, ND. Hardcover. 8vo. viii. 260 pp. Brown wrappers with gray cloth spine. Frontis piece with a b/w facsimile of Quntilian. Some age wear to spine and right of front cover. Exlibris of Samuel J. Borowsky. Some marginal pencil marks throughout, but book is in..... More
Hannover: Orient-Buchhandlung Heinz Lafaire, 1924. Softcover. 8vo. 98pp. Original wraps. Creasing and sunning to wraps. Tail of spine chipped. Two-inch closed tear along tail of spine on front wrapper. Inscribed by previous owner on title-page. One b/w photograph. Text in Gothic. Wraps in fair, interior in very good condition. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. X, [2], 387, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Printer's device on title page. In this remarkable work, the author provides a wide-ranging but careful scholarly analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the..... More
Duquesne University Press, (1965). Hardcover. 8vo. xxiii, 372pp. Sienna cloth with gold lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. At the time of publication, Kockelmans' work was the first introduction to Husserl's phenomenology. Rather than discussing the insights of the most important commentators, the author allows Husserl to explain..... More
San Antonio, Texas: Principia Press of Trinity University, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. III, [3], 143, [1]pp. Original illustrated wrappers over green cloth with silver lettering on spine and sketch of Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff in silver on front cover. Frontispiece portrait. Radoslav A. Tsanoff, whom this volume honors, has made..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxi,370pp. Silver decorated black cloth with original printed dust jacket, "Lawrence divides Whitehead's development into three periods: his early philosophy of science, 1919-1923, as represented in An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Concept of Nature, and The..... More
Paris: Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres" 1965. Troisième tirage (Third Printing). Softcover. Octavo. XXVII, 71pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers with black lettering on front cover and spine, and printer's device on front and back cover. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work which focuses on the effect of good writing. Longinus..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XIV, 363, [1]pp. Uncut. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Strongly influenced by the Utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, Comte developed the positive philosophy in an attempt to remedy the social malaise of the French revolution, calling for..... More
Waukesha, WI: Davis-Greene Corporation, (c.1935). Softcover. 8vo. 75pp. Printed wraps. A paper read before The American Philosophical Association, at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division, December 26, 1935, in the Lounge of the Women's Clubhouse, Stanford University, and now printed, with additions and subtractions, to be presented to..... More
Philadelphia: Hayes & Zell, 1856. Reprint Ex Library. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 524pp.,1 folding table. Original full calf with gilt ruling on black leather label of spine, gilt ruling, protected by modern mylar. Marbled edges. Complete in one volume: With the author's last additions and corrections. John Locke’s Essay "Concerning Human..... More
Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xv, 344pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Study of contemporary atheism concentrating on the works on Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Minor age wear and staining on binding. Parts of top and bottom..... More
London: Vision Press, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. 359pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original printed dust jacket. Author draws a division between Nature and Ego offering a philosophical basis for Science, yet refuting the false pretensions of an exaggerated Naturalism, Physicalism, and Positivism..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 135pp. Green cloth with black lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. R. M. Martin presents discussions in the philosophy of logic, including the theory of reference, the philosophy of language, as well as analytic metaphysics. Head..... More