Chicago: Louis Benham & Company, 1891. B/w Illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original white pictorial boards stamped in gilt and green with faux-crocodile grain, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers (boards and spine rubbed; white-out on front endpaper). More about Polite Life and Etiquette: Or. What is Right and the Social Arts
Worcester and Boston: Printed for George A. Trumbull. Sold also by Isaiah Thomas, Jr., 1818. Revised Edition with Corrections. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very scarce edition of this standard text, co-issued by famed American printer Isaiah Thomas. Worldcat records no surving copies of the print... More about An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric
Seatte: Minor Matters Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo 8 to 9 tall. First Edition, First Printing, with a complete numberline. 144pp., with 65 color photographs. As New. Features an interview with the artist by author Pam Houston and an essay by Ariel Levy (staff writer at the New Yorker). More about What Could Be
Basileae: Typis G. Haas : Ex officina J.J. Thurneisen, 1780. First Edition Thus. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A stunning copy of the first edition to include all of the Holbein sketches - a great edition of Erasmus' classic "In Praise of Folly". The text is in... More about Morias enkomion : sive stultitiae Laus. Des. Erasmi, ... declamatio, cum commentariis Gerardi...
Brookfield, MA: E. & G. Merriam, 1828. Over 10 Engraved Illustrations (including frontispiece). First Edition Thus. Full Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall (thin). Wear to extremities (chiefly edges and corners); slight stains, rubbing and scratches to covers; ex-library markings (chiefly to front endpapers, with printed paper label... More about The Christian Philosopher: Or, the Connection of Science and Philosophy with Religion
London: John Chapman, 1850. First English Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Scarce first English printing in the original cloth. Myerson A.22.2.a - binding variant "A". Original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers (chip to top of spine with loss of about... More about Representative Men: Seven Lectures
Los Angeles: Blake Little. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. One of 1000 copies printed. 96 full color photos throughout. As New in dust jacket. Features photographs of manly men. More about Work
Ashingdon, England: C. W. Daniel Company, Limited, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Exceptionally rare text on the inherent goodness of man. A remarkably well-preserved copy in the original white cloth and original cream printed jacket (slight wear to book and jacket; offset to endpapers). More about Original Good
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. First English Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition in English, issued as The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume IV. Original blue/black cloth stamped in gilt and blind, black coated endpapers (some ex-library markins; spine faded, some wear to cloth; ink... More about The Dawn of Day
Edinburgh, Scotland: Printed by R. Fleming for W. Gray Junior, 1751. Full Leather. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. xxxii + [8] + 198pp. Bound in full period brown calf, gilt-ruled and decorated spine with gilt-stamped dark red morocco spine label, plain endpapers, top edges stained dark brown, all... More about Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects; By Monsieur Pascal: Translated from the French
Montrose, CA: Preview Publications, 1938. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A SUPERB AND UNIQUE COPY: This was Reps' last copy of the book, marked up by him for a proposed new edition. It was sent by Reps with proposed revisions (including a new dedication and title... More about Exploring Our Name: a Psychological Tour Through Names and Natures
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author Bertrand Russell at top of title page in his characteristically neat hand. Russell himself credited this profoundly important and controversial work for his receipt of the Nobel Prize: "When I.... More about Marriage and Morals
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Clean, tight copy. Some shelf wear to corners and edges. More about Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
New York: Harper & Bros. 1867. First Thus. Hard Cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Solid with unmarked text, but with owner's ink name on second page; stamped green cloth, gilt titling on spine. Title page indicates "The only complete American edition. From the eighth London ediotion revised."... More about Elements of logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article. In the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana;...
Breslau: Josef Max und Komp, 1822. Second Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" German translation of Xenophon's epic "Anabasis". A very nice copy in period quarter brown calf over marbled boards, spine with red morocco label and gilt tooling, edges yellow (minor wear; some foxing and offset)... More about Xenophons Anabasis uebersetzt und mit anmerkungen versehen von Karl Wilhelm Halbkart
Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, impensis J. & J. Fletcher; J.F. & C. Rivington, 1780. Fifth Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Bound in full period brown speckled calf, spine with raised bands, black moroccs label and gilt rules, (rubbing to spine and boards; some browning to text;... More about Xenophontos Apomnemoneumaton biblia 4. = Xenophontis Memorabilium Socratis dictorum libri IV
