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1967006331New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - " For Fran and Bill Lea from Mortimer Adler October 1967". Additionally SIGNED by Adler on mailing label laid in. Near Fine toning to front end pages from period newspaper clipping a review of this book laid in. In a Very Good Plus dust jacket three 1" tears and small chip. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Hardcover books
1975989New York: Pantheon 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good. A very good plus first edition as stated. Embossed buckram boards with black titile-stamping on spine. Dust staining to bottom edge of boards only. Previous owner's information stamped and written front pastedown otherwise free of markings. Text is clean and bright. Textblock is sturdy and square. In a good plus original unclipped dust jacket with dust staining and toning. Loss at the foot of spine area of the jacket 1" x 1 3/4" a tear halfway up the spine area of the jacket chipping and fraying at top and bottom of jacket Dust jacket now protected in a clear archival cover. xxvi 134 pp. : illustrated with beautiful calligraphy throughout. Octavo 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches tall. Tao: The Watercourse Way is a 1975 non-fiction book on Taoism and philosophy and is Alan Watts' last book. It was published posthumously in 1975 with the collaboration of Al Chung-liang Huang who also contributed a preface and afterword and with additional calligraphy by Lee Chih-chang. Drawing on ancient and modern sources Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts.--Publisher description A gaily highhanded epicurean book as Watts was increasingly inclined to produce in his later years and boxed in as it is between collaborator Al Chung-liang Huang's worshipful and pained fore- and afterwords it is a gem to remember Watts by. As Huang explains the text was allowed to write itself in the spirit of the Tao which means in practice that a footnote can be omitted and the interpretive tendency is latitudinarian; and Watts takes care to beg off as a scholar ". . . meticulous explorations of cultural anthropology have their virtue but I am more interested in how these ancient writings reverberate on the harp of my own brain which has of course been tuned to the scales of Western culture"--la!. Yet there is a flamboyant and fascinating display of learning more interesting than the fine Western tuning which pulls its strongest signals from the 1960's and complex indications of a personality that seems to have resisted inner pacification. Lively sweeping momentum with ideograms by Huang bibliography and streamlined notes. Good introduction to the Tao. ---Kirkus 1975 Pantheon hardcover books
200033947NY: Continuum. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0826412653 . First edition. Previous owner's name blacked out on front free endpaper else about fine in a fine dust jacket. . Continuum hardcover books
1938006034Boston: Bulletin of The Business Historical Society 1938. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front cover - " With the compliments of Lewis E. Atherton". No Jacket As Issued paginated 49-64. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Reprint. Pamphlet. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bulletin of The Business Historical Society Paperback books
1947005400London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1947. First Edition 2nd Printing 1947. Very Good cloth discolored along spine and front boards offsetting to endpages. In a Very Good priced dust wrapper spine darkened and light edge wear. From the library of noted Professor George Nakhnikian with his ownership signature front endpage and his informed marginal pencil notations throughout. Nakhnikian was largely responsible for leading two different philosophy departments to positions of national prominence: Wayne State University in the 1950s and 1960s and Indiana University in the late 1960s and 1970s. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
200030610Wash. DC: Counterpoint 2000. First edition first prnt. Signed and dated ""2/27/06" by Berry on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Counterpoint Hardcover books
1959003301Ann Arbor MI: Univ of Michigan Press 1959. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpage. Second Printing Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket with a couple of tiny rubs at the tips. Boulding was the founder of the evolutionary economics movement a cofounder of General Systems Theoryand in addition to being an economist he was an educator peace activist poet religious mystic devoted Quaker systems scientist and interdisciplinary philosopher. He published over three dozen books and in excess of 1200 articles. He was one of those rare authors of a "Citation Classic." Indeed even more rare he was the author of two Citation Classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society 1956 and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory 1962. SIGNED copies of any of his works are exceedingly SCARCE. . Signed by Author. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Univ of Michigan Press Hardcover books
1940006301New Haven: Yale Univ Press 1940. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front paste down. Near Fine end pages toning in a Very Good Minus dust jacket 2" x 2" chip bottom corner front cover.light edge wear and soiling. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Yale Univ Press Hardcover books
1928005406Berkeley CA: Univ of California Press 1928. RARE in dust jacket. First Edition 1928. Near Fine pages ever so lightly browning in a Very Good dust jacket chips and tears at the folds. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. A quite handsome copy. Sather Classical Lectures Volume Five. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of California Press Hardcover books
199834068NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0374223262 . Translated from the German by John Hargraves. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
199435227Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Fine. 1994. Paperback. 0253208998 . First paperback printing. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Indiana University Press paperback books
19801923409Harvard University Press 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Includes original jacket lightly word on front. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1938001657New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1938. Near Fine with light creasing at top edge. 28 pages in cream-colored printed wrappers. Scarce. 4th Printing. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jewish Theological Seminary of America Paperback books
1985005076Boston: Martinus Nijhoff 1985. Near Fine No Jacket As Issued boards lightly soiled. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Martinus Nijhoff Hardcover books
199926292Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0801435617 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Cornell University Press hardcover books
196334037Santiago de Chile: Central de Publicaciones 1963. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Small tear to lower spine else a near fine copy minor creasing. 13 34 pp. 4to. Author's gift card laid in loose. Includes: Discurso del senor Ricardo Donoso; Discurso del senor Nestor Meza Villalobos; Bibliografia de Ricardo Donoso. Ricardo Donoso 1896-1985 was a liberal intellectual director of the National Archives and professor of History at the Univ. Chile. His major work was The Political Ideas in Chile. OCLC shows only three copies. Central de Publicaciones unknown books
1980007895New York: Vintage 1980. First Trade Paperback Edition 1980 First Printing. Near Fine small corner creases front wrapper prior owner name stamp inside front wrapper. Uncommon in the first printing. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. . First Trade Paperback Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vintage Paperback books
1927008909New York: Simon & Schuster 1927. RARE First Edition in dust jacket and SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page. Very Good spine lean prior owner name in ink bookplate and pencil gift inscription. fore edge soiled small L.S. Ayres ticket front paste down. In Very Good dust jacket spine darkened and a bit rubbed small chips at edges and folds. Durant's "remembrance of things past" of which he said ".it was done 'con amore' and there are some pages in it which I am afraid will remain to the end the best that I have written." . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
1927335New York: Wm. H. Wise 1927. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. A gorgeous letter press first edition by the Roycrofters. Green and tan stiff paper wraps tied with green ribbon and titling in red on cover. Ornate orange drop caps with black type printed on hand-molded paper. Mottoes printed on grey inserts centered and decorated. Moderate even wear to all edges of cover. A beautiful example of the Arts and Crafts Movement and a return to traditional book making. Laid in is an original certificate to purchase mottoes "suitable for framing" and two examples of the same handmade paper showing ads for the Notebook of Elbert Hubbard and for Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. 220 4 pp. with index. Quarto 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches tall Best known as the the initiator of the Arts and Crafts community Roycroft Hubbard was an anarchist socialist and followed a philosophy of mental and spiritual freedom. Some of his works which include Jesus Was an Anarchist and a A Message to Garcia were listed as offensive by the US government. He and his wife died aboard the Lusitania. Wm. H. Wise paperback books
1934006596Glasgow: The Civic Press 1934. SCARCE. 65 pp. facsimile. Very Good sticker shadow front cover edges chipped interior clean and unmarked pages still uncut. Title continues " and Bodleian Library Oxford No. 3623 etc." Al -Farabi was known to the Arabs as the "Second Master" after Aristotle as he was a philosopher logician musician and a major political scientist. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Civic Press Paperback books
19881964944MIT 1988. Trade Paperback. Good. Minor ink underlining. 1988 Trade Paperback. Michel Foucault left a rich legacy of ideas and approaches many of which still await exposition and analysis. The Final Foucault is devoted to his last published and some as yet unpublished work and includes a translation of one of his last interviews a comprehensive bibliography of his publications and a biographical chronology.Foucault was still working on his history of sexuality when he died in 1984 but his main concern remained as throughout his career a deeper understanding of the nature of truth. MIT paperback books
1950002962New Haven: Yale Univ Press 1950. His 3rd book. Near Fine small discoloration bottom edge front board in a Very Good Plus dustjacket with a few tiny closed edge tears small shallow chip across head of spine and small dampstain bottom edge front panel near spine. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Yale Univ Press Hardcover books
1987006901Ahmedabad India: Navajivan Publishing House 1987. Copyright page states "First Edition July 1949 5000 copies. Fourth Reprint April 1987 2000 Copies. Total 18000 Copies". Quite SCARCE in a dust-jacketed early printing. Near Fine prior owner name city and date front end page slight toning to end pages in a Very Good dust jacket 1" triangular chip top edge front panel 1/2" chip at head of spine. . 4th Printing. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Navajivan Publishing House Hardcover books
1985008051New York: Basic Books 1985. Presentation Copy SCARCE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR and Pulitzer Prize Winner Douglas Hofstadter at front end page -"To Ann with much fondness from Doug -May 1985- A little housewarming present which will also keep a little bit of 'me' in old 712 S. Henderson". First Printing with complete number row 1-10. Very Good slight page block separation at head of spine page block edges and paste downs mild foxing in a Very Good dust jacket front flap price clipped chips at spine ends and corners. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy. Basic Books Hardcover books
1998007202Bloomington Indiana: School of Fine Arts Gallery Indiana University 1998. SCARCE exhibition catalogue for this show curated by Betsy Stirratt and Douglas Hofstadter the show running from October 23 - December 6 MIIM 1998 . 33 pp. in decorative stapled wrappers Fine as issued. A SCARCE Hofstadter item. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University Paperback books
