Search Results: Albert Jay Nock from Philip Smith, Bookseller

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918 [1915; 1916]. 2nd edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG, no dw. 8vo, xviii+384pp, dark green cloth with spine stamped in gold. Stated third printing (1918) of the second edition of 1916 (the first had been issued the previous year as the work of "A British Statesman"). A rare original Huebsch printing of this singular work opposing the criminal statecraft that resulted in the Great War. Author Francis Neilson and editor Albert Jay Nock would found The Freeman a few years later. This copy bears the ownership label of American civil servant and publisher William Morgan Shuster to the front pastedown; else unmarked with a little spotting to edges.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG. 8vo, xii+252pp, grey cloth with spine label, no dustwrapper. The stated first edition of this rare and essential 1928 collection of writings by one of the greatest of American essayists (including works published in Harper's and The American Mercury). No interior markings noted (aside from penciled minor marks to decorative front endpapers); binding has a bit of soil and wear and is a presumed second state (first state, as noted in colophon, was a linoleum block print design by Prentiss Taylor). Highly recommended.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG, no dw (beyond fragment). 8vo, [viii]+160pp, black cloth with spine stamped in gold, lacking dustwrapper. The quite rare first edition of this essential 1932 publication of Nock's cogent educational philosophy (spoiler alert: this expresses sentiments antithetical to modern practice). This copy has minor penciled marginal emphasis lines to about 10 pages (no other markings). Period bookseller label to front free endpaper. Clean overall, spine lettering rubbed, includes the detached front flap of the rare dustwrapper. Highly recommended.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG, no dws. 8vo, 2 vols: xx+506+lxii & xiv+450+xciv pp (plus plates), brown cloth with spines stamped in gold, no dustwrappers or slipcase. A solid copy of the two-volume edition of the works of Rabelais, edited by Albert Jay Nock and Catherine Rose Wilson. Errata sheet laid in. A tight and square, unmarked set with cracking to front hinges (bindings still sound); plates and adjacent pages have typical foxing (presumably an issue with the original paper stock). Highly recommended.