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LONDON: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good Minus in Very Good Minus Dustjacket. Second English Edition. "...Lectures delivered by Rudolf Steiner to audiences familiar with the general background of his anthroposophical teachings..." (from notes on copyright page). Translated from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer. The original text is included as the second section in the volume of the COMPLETE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF RUDOLF STEINER, entitled Bausteine zu einer Erkenntnis des Mysteriums von Golgotha. Pale blue cloth boards, a bit soiled and stained in one or two places, with two minor corner bumps. Some sunning to DJ, especially top edge of front panel and spine. Quite scarce in hardcover.

Amsterdam, 1763. Second Edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. Stated Second Edition. xxxvi, 248 pages. Full brown calf with label and gilt spine decorations. Small octavo. Boards of catspaw marbling. Marbled endpapers Spine shows general wear , chafing along hinge and corners. Binding tight. Marbled endpapers. Two bookplates. Text clean. In French. With the bookplate of Viscount Palmerston showing his heraldic shield. Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston [1739-1802] was Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty [1766-77] and Lord of the Treasury [1777-82].

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1899. Hardcover. GOOD PLUS. Gilt lettering to spine and front of cranberry-red, cloth-covered boards. Front hinges started. Moderate wear to extremities. Worn corners nudged and/or bumped. Mild scuffing. There is a 1" scratch to front cover and a very thin crease the full width of rear cover about .75" down from top edge. Light acid transfer to endpapers, text lightly age-tanned. Sixteen portraits of influencial men including frontispiece portrait of George Dewey with tissue guard. 439 pp. Unmarked and tightly bound. "He that sips of many arts drinks of none" is written in gilt and framed in same to front board. "In this volume the author has endeavored to give practical assistance to young men in selecting the mark and fixing their gaze upon it. He must have assistance in selecting the high mark which is to be the object of his constancy to purpose, " (introduction).

Oxford, England: Peter Lang, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Trade paperback. 8.8 in. x 5.8 in., pp. 214. Light rubbing to covers; small creases to bottom corners of covers. Unmarked interior. Michel Henry (1922 - 2002) was a French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist. He wrote five novels and numerous philosophical works and lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States, and Japan. According to Henry, life can never be seen from the exterior, as it never appears in the exteriority of the world. Life feels itself and experiences itself in its invisible interiority and in its radical imminance. In the world we never see life itself, but only living beings or living organisms; we cannot see life in them. In the same way, it is impossible to see another person's soul with the eyes or to perceive it at the end of a scalpel. Henry's philosophy goes on to aver that we undergo life in a radical passivity, we are reduced to bear it permanently as what we have not wanted,… Read More

New York: Philosophical Library, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.3 in., pp. ix + 79. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper. Rose-red boards with publisher's emblem embossed in blind to front. Gilt title to spine. Yellow publisher's stain to top-edge. Light rubbing to dustjacket covers. Ward introduces the philosophical construct of "functional purpose"; that is, "unless the innate purpose of man is understood, individual man lacks the essential knowledge required to properly direct his thoughts and actions in the fulfillment of the self. Unless the individual so functions that he is in harmony with man's basic reason for being, he fails to develop in a way indicated by his innate nature. This failure results in a sense of frustration in life, an inability to find solid happiness through self-fulfillment." (from the bookjacket).

London: John Williams, 1658. Third Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. Small quarto. 7 1/4" x 5 3/4". Half calf. Scuffing to leather but very tight. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt; contrasting (red) spine label. Several diagrams (most in Chapter XIII), and side notes throughout. One or two contemporary marginalia and a very few instances of light pencil underlining (p. 157). [48], 312, 136, [3]. Some pagination out of order, and at least one example (147 for 174) have transposed numerals. An important work.View on the intertwining of science, philosophy and religion in the 17th century. Digby corroborated the theories of Harvey on blood circulation and countered Descarte's objections to the conclusions. Digby also had a a reputation as an astrologer, alchemist, a former pirate, and published a book of recipes ESTC: R15511.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. 8vo, blue cloth with black binding. Rubbing to extremities, and few dimples, scratches and what appears to be a binder's error to front board. NOTE: Slightly musty, but not bad. Boldly SIGNED (not inscribed) to front free endpaper. Rear free endpaper shows a penciled sentence: "We teach not to generalize". Edgewear and several very small chips to top edge of dustjacket, with original $4.95 price to top of front flap. Fifth title by by San Francisco longshoreman/philosopher Hoffer. Begun in June 1958, it throws light "upon the workings of a highly original mind...for its glimpse into the world of the wtaerfront and men who are seldom articulate on their own behalf. During this period the world was in a state of agitation...and...these influences are reflected in the journal entries. Hoffer, always the individualist, reacted to the times with perceptive candor and wit...Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, the record of one… Read More