The Consolation of Philosophy
London: The Folio Society, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. pictorial paper boards, 207 pp. Colour platesIn publisher's red paper slipcase. Spine darkened, damp stain to rear joint. Else fine. More
London: The Folio Society, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. pictorial paper boards, 207 pp. Colour platesIn publisher's red paper slipcase. Spine darkened, damp stain to rear joint. Else fine. More
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. x, 214 pp. Some slight age toning to covers and interior, else fine. This is the first book to use complexity theory to open up the 'geophilosophy' developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus..... More
New York: G.E. Stechert & Co., 1904. Hardcover. 12mo. Anastatic reprint of 1876 edition. Full balck cloth. viii, 307 pp. Light wear to corners and head of front joint. Ex-libray stamp of Picton Public Library to top edge of text block, library label to front pastedown. Ink ownership inscription to..... More
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1952. Soft cover. 16mo. Orig. printed tan paper wrappers, sewn and glued binding. xiii, 120 pp. Sunning and creasing to spine, light soiling to covers. Ink date stamp to t.p. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. xii, 137 pp. Sunning and creasing to spine and edges, rubbing to extremities, sticker ghost to head of front cover. More
Oxford: Printed and Sold at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, Aberdeen and Dublin, 1796. Hardcover. 18mo. Marbled paper boards, printed paper spine label. x, 194 pp. Minor rubbing to extremities. Some minor browning and spotting commensurate with age. More
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 218 pp. Some sunning to spine and head of front joint, else fine. This work combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, offering a more sustained analysis of the theory of..... More
New York: H. Long & Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Two leaves of plates, 282 p.p., vi, 2 p. ads. Original red cloth with gilt lettering and device in gilt to spine. Boards with decorative border stamped in blind, with vignette of table-tipping to front board in gilt and..... More
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Chief Ancient Philosophies Series. Orig. brown publisher's cloth, black stamped vignette, gilt titles. 255 pp., 8 pp. ads. Floral endpapers. Spine tilted. Rubbed to extremities, light staining to boards, chipping to spine foot, light wear to corners, pencil scuff..... More
Milan: Silvio Berlusconi Editore, 2002. Second Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. [The Next or the Prudence of Politics]. Paperback, 755pp. Frontispiece. Light markings to covers, o/w near fine. More
New York: James Pott & Co, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Bound in green cloth with decorative gilt boarder on front board with portrait of Carlyle in center. 320 p.p., 1 p.p. ads. Light rubbing on spine with small grey spot on rear board. Some stains on fore-edge. Top edges..... More
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. 16mo. Orig. navy cloth. ix, 280 pp. Light chafing to extremities. Dust jacket is sunned, a few damp stains, chips to corners, damp stain to spine foot, some perforations to front spineLight staining to top edge of text block, blue scuff to..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 286 pp. Fine. Anthropologist, mystic, scholar, a marvelously gifted writer, Castaneda has revealed to all of us the riches of a religious and philosophical experience that flourished long before the white man came to this continent, and flourishes still..... More
New York: D. Appelton & Co., 1860. Leighton, John. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 4to (small). Full brown morocco. Gilt titling and gilt and blind decorated compartments to spine. Gilt titling and frame decoration to boards. Inner edge dentelle. A.E.G. Marbled endpapers. xvi, 240 p.p. Copiously illustrated throughout with B&W engravings..... More
Paris et a Bruxelles: Chez Le Charlier, Libraire, Montagne De La Cour. Hardcover. 8vo (small). [n.d., ca. 1786]. French. Two volumes. Quarter contemporary brown calf, black spine lable with gilt lettering, Marbled boards and endpapers. Speckled edges. Bindings are tight. Author name inked to title pages. Bookplate of the "Conventus..... More
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1923. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full navy cloth. xxxvi, 218 pp. B&W frontis portrait. Light chafing to spine ends and corners. Spine tilted. Foxing to first few pages. A few instances of pencil marginalia. Dust jacket chipped to spine..... More
London: Typis academicis. Impensis Cornelii Crownfield, Celeberrimae Academiae Typographi. Prostant apud Jacobum Knapton, Rob. Knaplock, & Paulum Vaillant, bibliopolas Londinenses, 1718. Hardcover. 8vo. ...L.L.D. Coll. Regin. Cantab. Magister, & Canonicus Eliensis. Accedunt emendationes cl. Joannis Walkeri, A.M. Coll. Trin. Socii. 372 p.p. Latin. Leather. No jacket. Speckled page ends. Orange..... More
Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. First edition stated, full number line. Quarter black cloth with grey paper boards, silver lettering to spine. 277 p.p. Slight bumping to spine ends, small bruise to tail edge of front board. DJ has some bumping to top edges. Through the ages..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Soft cover. 4" x 6" Soft cover. 235 pp. Fine. More
London, Ontario: Advertiser Printing and Publishing Company, 1883. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full contemporary brown pebbled cloth, gilt titles to spine and front board, blind stamped triple filet and decorative panel to boards. 233 pp., [3 pp. addenda + errata]. Spine and edges sunned, front board is damp stained, black..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Bollingen Series XXXVI. Black and blue cloth. xv, [2], 662 pp. Very small spots of wear to corners. Ink ownership inscription to ffep, offsetting to endpapers. Fine overall. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Moser, Barry [engravings]. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to flyleaf from Jeanette Beer to John Leyerle and Patricia Eberle. Full tan cloth. xxxi, 83 pp. Printed in black, red and blue. Small black scuff to lower front board. Dust jacket is..... More
Wien und Prague: Franz Haas, 1797. Hardcover. Volume 1 [of 7] only. Black pebbled cloth, 335pp. Frontispiece; small owner name on title page, moderate foxing; heavy wear to spine & edges, lettered number on upper front cover but still a very good copy. The thoughts and opinions of Michael Montaigne..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1955. Hardcover. 16mo. Collection Pourpre Series. Red leatherette, 253pp. Text in French. Name after copywright page, pages a bit yellowed; light wear on spine and edges o/w near fine in d/w. Jacket chipped at spine with light tears to extremities. Philosophical memoir by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 18mo. Orig. card wrappers. 64 pp. Spine tilted and sunned, light staining to covers, light warping to front cover, bumping to lower corner and spine foot, ink stain to upper rear corner. Bookplate of scientific historian Stillman Drake. More