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New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1970. Hardcover, black cloth with spine lettered in silver and publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 100 pages + 20 pages of References and Bibliography. Stated first edition, first printing. A review copy with publisher's slip and 4 x 6 inch glossy captioned black and white promotional photograph of author laid-in. Book is near fine, dust-jacket shows mild age soiling and one small spot of front cover. A clean copy, with what appears to be stylized initials written in pencil inside front cover, or just a scribble? An interesting collection of reviews grace the rear dust-jacket cover, describing the book as "futuristic gibberish", "terrifying", and a work which leaves the reader with only two options regarding the author "...destroy his books of yourself". How can you not want to read what this man has to say? Near fine in a good+ dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. 8vo - over… Read More

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 262 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. An introductory essay by the editor entitled "What is Lesbian Philosophy?' is followed by eighteen essays by various scholars on different aspects of that central theme. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, fresh, unmarked copy. Near fine. .

New York: New Press, 1998. Large trade paperback. 486pp., Index. Edited by James D. Faubion. Translated by Robert Hurley and others. Complete in itself, this is volume 2 of the complete corpus of the philosopher's work, series edited by Paul Rabinow. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Incidental age soiling to covers, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. No spine crease, appears unread. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 181 pages. Glossary of Chinese and Greek Terms; Bibliography; Index. Illustrated with drawings and diagrams. First edition. No previous ownership marks. A pristine, as new copy, never read. Fine. .

Paris: Unite de Formation et de Recherches Linguistiques, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback, white card covers. Text in French. 121 pages. Contains 3 articles: Ildefonse & Lallot, Ammonius, Commentaire du Peri Hermeneias, Preambule et chapitre I a V; Timelli, Une version francaise imprimee de l'Ars minor de Donat; Thouard, August Wilhelm Schlegel- sur la Theorie du Langage d'August Ferdinand Bernhardi (1803). A clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine..

Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1989. Hardcover, orange cloth boards, issued without dust-jacket. 287pp., New copy, in shrinkwrap. No faults, brand new copy.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Large format paperback, with heavy card covers and French flaps. 882 pages. First edition. Contains 4,000 entries and cross-references contributed by over 380 specialists and represents the most comprehensive and authoritative single volume dictionary of philosophy available in English. No previous ownership marks. A used copy with several dings to pages edges and soiling to bottom edge. Else a square, unmarked, internally clean copy of a valuable reference. Good or better. Media mail only.. Softcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 354 pages. Select Bibliography, Index. First edition. An examination of "...the historical and intellectual contexts out of which Habermas's work emerged, " [and] " an overview of his main ideas." No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. An unread copy with slight wear to covers from storage. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Still a very good+ copy. .

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1986. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pamphlet, light gray card covers, staple bound. 56 pages. Translated by Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West. Selected Bibliography. Stated first printing. No previous ownership marks. An unread and as new copy. Fine. .

J.M. Dent & Co., 1991. Trade paperback. 483pp., Translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn; introduction by A.D. Lindsay. Everyman edition. No previous ownership marks. Pages lightly age toned at margins. A square, clean copy with no underlinging, highlighting or other marking. No spine crease. Very good.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 431 pages. Bibliographic References, Name Index, Subject Index. First edition, with no additional printings listed on copyright page. The third in a series of titles concerned with the morality of certain actions, the present volume deals with "the permissible use of animals by humans." No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Very mild lean to spine from shelving. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. Very good. .

Middlesex, UK: Penguin Pelican, 1958. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Mass market paperback. 183 pages. Index. First edition. "A simple introduction tot e great 18th-century Scottish thinker ..." A selection of the Pelican Philosophy series. Paper quite toned but still supple. Pencil underlining throughout. A sound, tight, good working copy. .

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Small trade paperback. 119 pages. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by David Gallop. Bibliographical Note, Select Bibliography, Index of Names, General Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, unmarked copy with a touch of toning to margins as per usual. Near fine. .

Athens: Moment Verions, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Paperback, Greek publication, in Greek language. A scholarly journal , published twice annually, containing six essays by various authors, entirely in Greek. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. A near fine copy. World Catalog list a number of digital copies available in European institutional libraries, but none in the States, and no copies for sale on the internet. .

New York: Hafner Publishing Company, 1957. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 95 pages. Edited, with an introduction, by Henry D. Aiken. Reprint. From the library of John M. Cooper, Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, with his name on fly. Pencil highlighting in margins, and brief marginalia and underling to text, also in pencil. Covers toned. A good, solid used copy. .

La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1957. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Perfect bound pamphlet in printed wrappers. 87 pages. Index.. Translated from the French and collated with the Latin by John Veitch. Authorized reprint. From the library of John M. Cooper, Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, with his name on fly. Some toning to wrappers, else a clean, sound copy with pencil marks to about 8 pages, consisting of brief vertical lines in margins. Spine undamaged. Good. .

Venetiis [New York]: ex Typographia Remondiniana, 1764. Book. Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Small volume bound in vellum, written in Latin, containing Tomus Sextus & Tomus Septimus [books VI & VII of VII]. 318 and 234 pages respectively. 1764 edition [the title was published at least as early as 1743]. Text by Eduardo Corsini, Italian historian and antiquary; 1702-1765. A philosophy survey, intended as a course of study in school. Inner paper hinges broken, with the result that covers nearly detached. Original ties lacking. Book block is solid, clean and unmarked. A scarce 18th century example of this title. Good. .

Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, bound in white and green boards, no dust-jacket as issued. 380 pages. Subject Index, Index of Names. First edition. Published in the 'New Synthese Historical Library' as vol. 46. From the library of John M. Cooper, Emeritus Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, with his name on top of front free end-paper. Contains 12 essays on the subject of philosophical approaches to emotions, mostly from early Greek and Roman writers [Stoics, Galen, Epicureans, et alia] to one essay on modern views on the subject entitled "The Two Faces of Stoicism: Rousseau and Freud". A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. Fine..

Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Small trade paperback. 570 pages. French edition, text in French and Greek. Introduction, traduction et commentaries par Pierre Pellegrin. This bi-lingual edition has original Greek text on versos and French translation on facing rectos. First thus. A rare example of second century Greek skepticism. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Text in French and Greek. Near fine. .

New York: Peter Eckler Publishing Co., 1920. Hardcover, rebound in dark green half-leather over light green cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled end-papers. Containing the full text of the following: Letters on the Christian Religion, The Philosophy of History, The Ignorant Philosopher, and The Chinese Catechism. Each title preceded by its own title and contents page.. Illustrated with portraits of notable diests and rationalist thinkers. No previous ownership marks. Raised spine toned to rich brown, outer hinges rubbed and worn. Interior clean and unmarked, covers sound and hinges strong. A near very good copy. . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.