Search Results: Philosophy from Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB

London: Independent Labour Party [circa 1930s]. (Staplebound) 20pp. Very good. Some spotting to the pamphlet and the bottom corners are dog-eared. (Ideas, Ideas, Socialism).

Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers [0-8407-4116-2] 1984, 2nd printing. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 95pp. Frontispiece, photographs, notes, a pro-life sticker pasted on the rear free endpaper. "During the decade following the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973, more than 15 million unborn children were legally aborted - a figure that surpasses by more than ten times the combined total of American lives lost in all of the nation's wars. In an effort to stimulate public awareness, Ronald Reagan forthrightly addresses the volatile issue in his first book written while President of the United States". Afterword by C. Everett Koop & Malcolm Muggeridge. Locale: United States. (Ideas, Abortion, Birth Control, Essays, Morality, Politics, Pro-Life Movement, Religion).

New Rochelle: Arlington House [0-87000-252-X] [1975]. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 224pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. The dust jacket has minor edgewear and chipping, its edges are slightly darkened. "Comic Strips in the Thirties". Time Period 1930's. Locale: United States. (Ideas, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Entertainment, Newspapers, Popular Culture).

New York: Simon & Schuster [1973], 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 735pp. Bibliography, index. The dust jacket is lightly worn at the spine ends and there is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. (Ideas, Correctional Institutions, Crime, Criminology, Justice, Prisons, Sociology).

Chicago: University of Chicago Press [0-226-47197-7] 1980. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. 384pp. Notes, index. The spine is faded. "We have long been waiting for a book like Frank Lentricchia's, which undertakes the difficult task of writing the history of that post-contemporary criticism and theory in which we live today. His brilliant and implacable analyses - from Frye to Bloom, passing through structuralism, hermeneutics, semiotics and much besides - consistently hit their bull's-eyes, draw blood, cause pain, spare no one, and can leave no reader concerned with such matters indifferent" - Fredric Jameson. (Ideas, Ideas, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature, Postmodernism).

Bloomington: Indiana University Press [0-253-20399-6] [1987]. (Trade paperback) Very good. 244pp. Notes, index. The spine is lightly faded. Book about Mass Culture. Publisher series: Theories of Representation and Difference. (Ideas, Ideas, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Modernism, Postmodernism).

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press [0-8166-2249-3] 1993. (Trade paperback) 168pp. Near fine. Notes, index. "Is there a way of thinking about literature that is 'outside' or 'against' literature? In Against Literature, John Beverley brilliant responds to this question, arguing for a negation of the literary that would allow nonliterary forms of cultural practice to displace literature's hegemony". (Ideas, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Ideas, Literary Criticism, Literature, Narrative, Revolution).

New York: Simon & Schuster [1975], 3rd printing. (Hardcover) Very good to fine in very good dust jacket. 472pp. Notes, index. Owner label. (Ideas, Gender Issues, Psychology, Rape).

New York: New Directions 1945, 1st edition, later state. (Hardcover) 292pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Grey cloth with blue spine lettering in first state dust jacket with 4 titles on back panel. The illustrations and photographs not on glossy paper. The spine of the dust jacket is a bit rubbed and lightly worn at the top. (Ideas, Ideas).

London: John Murray [0-7195-2989-1] 1974. (Hardcover) 285pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Frontispiece, notes, index. "Volume 3 of this complete, unexpurgated edition of all Byron's known letters (many published for the first time) and journals opens with Byron at the first impact of his fame. II reveals the depth of his divided emotions and the width of his literary, political and human involvements". Journals of George Gordon Byron, Lord. Letters of George Gordon Byron, Lord. Time Period 1813-1814 & 19th Century. Edited by Leslie A. Marchand. Vol. 3 Byron's Letters and Journals. (Ideas, Letter Writing, Literary Anecdotes).

New York: George Routledge [no date]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 221pp. Decorated endpapers. Translated by F.A. Wright. Locale: Ancient Greece. (Ideas, Greek Literature).

New York: George Braziller [1964], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 1237pp. 2 volumes. (Philosophy, Alienation).

New York: Library of America 978-1-59853-039-1 [978-1-59853-039-1] 2009. (Hardcover) 848pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Patterned endpapers, photographs, illustrations, chronology, notes, ribbon marker. A remainder mark on the bottom edge. "A singular figure in American letters, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) had a life as complex as his heritage. Born in the Ionian Islands to a Greek mother and an Irish father, he was abandoned by his parents, raised in boarding schools, and then sent penniless to the United States, where he began a career as a newspaper journalist". Includes Chita, Selected Journalism and Letters, Some Chinese Ghosts, Two Years in the French West Indies & Youma. Locale: Caribbean Islands; Japan; Martinique; United States. (Ideas, Essays, Ideas, Journalism, Reporters).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1963, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 332,v. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Notes, bibliography, index. Some pencil notation, bibliography and index. (Philosophy, Philosophy, Science).

New Haven: Yale University Press 978-0-300-16760-3 [978-0-300-16760-3] 2011. (Hardcover) 357pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Notes, index. "In this, his critical summa, Harold Bloom returns to the issue of influence, his signature theme. Ever since his classic work the Anxiety of Influence appeared almost forty years ago, Bloom has been the world's most eloquent authority on literary relationships". (Ideas, Essays, Ideas, Literary Criticism, Poetry).

Washington: United States. Government Printing Office 1872. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 494pp. Includes index. Includes a 4 page article on the Indians of Red River. Some Some library stamps inside and a paper label on the spine. Includes W.H. Gardner (Ethnology of the Indians of the Valley of the Red River of the North). Locale: Manitoba; Red River Valley--Manitoba. (Ideas, Indians of North America, Smithsonian Institution).

Rochester: University of Rochester Press [1997]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 253pp. Frontispiece, notes, bibliography. Book about Henry George. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: United States. (Philosophy, Economics, Free Trade, Politics, Radical Movement, Tax).

Danbury: Grolier Enterprises [1980], Collector's Edition. (Hardcover) Near fine. 345pp. Brown leatherette with gilt decoration. All edges gilt, ribbon page marker. Includes Crito, Phaedo, Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations), Epictetus (The Golden Sayings). Publisher series: Harvard Classics. Translated by Hastings Crossley, Benjamin Jowett & George Long. Edited with foreword and notes by Charles W. Eliot. Series: Harvard Classics. (Philosophy).

Toronto: Signal / McClelland & Stewart 978-0-7710-4141-9 [978-0-7710-4141-9] 2011, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 788pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Index. (Ideas, Criticism, Essays, Ideas).

London: Hogarth Press [0-7012-0853-8] 1988. (Trade paperback) Very good. 657pp. Notes, index. Lightly worn. "This volume brings together Empson's general essays; interpretations of Auden, Joyce, Kafka, Woolf and Orwell; and previously unpublished essays on death, Buddhism, the Christian God and Gray's cat, and much more. Supremely intelligent, contentious and lucid, Argufying reconfirms Empson's eminence as both literary critic and cultural commentator". Edited with introduction by John Haffenden. (Ideas, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature).