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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
1927006977London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1927. Very Good board soiled and rubbed at the tips chips to cloth at spine ends prior owner name front end page small number stamped rear paste down. Binding solid and text clean and unmarked. Malinowski's classic critique of psychoanalysis. International Library of Psychology Philosophy and Scientific Method. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
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
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
1876004694London: Longmans Green and Co. 1876. In the publisher's original green cloth brown endpages gilt titles 536 pages plus 24 pages of advertisements. Volume 3 out of 4 volumes published in England between 1875-1877. Comte was a French philosopher and a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He was a major influence on such social thinkers as Karl Marx John Stuart Mill George Eliot Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer. The book is Very Good cloth faded bottom edge boardsfront hinge starting contents clean tight unmarked an no foxing. . Later Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longmans, Green and Co. 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
1980006772The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1980. Review Copy with publisher's review material laid in. Near Fine boards sun toned contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy. Martinus Nijhoff Hardcover books
1976005266Oxford: British Academy 1976. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper 2 small edge tears. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First EditionThus. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. British Academy Hardcover books
1928007009Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1928. Fifth Edition Impression of 1928 stated. Very Good Plus prior owner name and city front end page slight spotting to cloth at top edges No jacket. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . Fifth Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford at the Clarendon Press Hardcover books
1935006673New York: E. P. Dutton 1935. Near Fine a bit of toning to end pages top edge dusty in a Very Good dust jacket small chips at spine ends and flap fold tips light rubbing. Translated from the French by Lilian A. Clare. One of his classic works on the "primitive" mind Levy-Bruhl influenced the psychological theory of C. G. Jung. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. E. P. Dutton Hardcover books
1949007020New York: Pantheon Books 1949. Near Fine prior owner name Milton Fisk noted philosophy professor front end page in a Very Good Plus dust jacket small hole at lower spine. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. English version translated by Lewis Galantiere and Gerald B. Phelan. Second Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pantheon Books Hardcover books
1964006759New York: McGraw-Hill 1964. Third Printing 1964 stated at copyright page. Fine in the original white cloth in a Near Fine dust jacket tiny rub at rear spine edge. A quite handsome copy of McLuhan's piooneering classic. Third Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. McGraw-Hill Hardcover books
1891006758London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1891. Reprinted from the Westminster Review. Very Good in the original blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations black end pages cloth a bit darkened at spine small tear top edge advert. page contents are clean tight and unmarked. The English and Foreign Philosophical Library. ads 8 pp. 200 pp. ads 56 pp. Fourth Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
199624426London Thousand Oaks New Delhi: Sage Publications 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hardbound 8vo. 188 pp. A fine copy. Issued without dustwrapper. A volume which introduces and explains the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy sociology psychology and politics. Sage Publications hardcover books
196026071The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1960. First edition. Near Fine/very good. Two identical clothbound volumes in dustwrappers. The author's attempt to answer the question: What is Phennomenology 735 total pages. Handsome near fine copies in lightly used and toned dustwrappers. Martinus Nijhoff unknown books
1947006113Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press 1947. Very Good cloth sunned and faded. From the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Ostrom their address label front end page and Vincent's signature in ink front paste down. 3 pages with marginal pencil marks and laid in is an unsigned single page note in pencil unsigned by one of the Ostrom's Elinor Ostrom and her husband Vincent founded the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in 1973. Elinor Ostrom was the 1st and to this date only woman to win a Nobel Prize for Economics. which she won in 2009. . Second Impression. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Univ. of Chicago Press Hardcover books
1964005409The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1964. International Archives of the History of Ideas 5. Near Fine prior owner name front end page that of noted Philosophy Professor George Nakhnikian in a Very Good dust jacket 1" tear at bottom edge of spine fold a few smaller edge tears. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Martinus Nijhoff Hardcover books
1968005627Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California 1968. SCARCE. Near Fine very slight corner crease front wrapper. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Church of Scientology of California Paperback books
18272093318David Watson 1827. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Boards rubbed top corner lightly stained lightly foxed throughout pencil name on front endpaper. 1827 Full-Leather. v 307 pp. 12mo. A collection of religious expositions focusing on the topic of future retribution a subject about which the author and Rev. Ballou disagreed. In other words a philosophical exploration of the concepts of Heaven and Hell or divine judgment of human souls in the afterlife. More information on Hosea Ballou: "30 Apr. 1771-7 June 1852 theologian and clergyman was born in Richmond New Hampshire the son of Maturin Ballou a farmer and unpaid Baptist minister and Lydia Harris who came from a Rhode Island Quaker family and died when her son was two years old. Growing up in extreme poverty Ballou had less than three years of formal schooling. A few months before his nineteenth birthday he came forward in a revival meeting and joined his father's church. But before the year was over Ballou's interest in religion had led him to become a Universalist. Moving in with an older brother who was already a Universalist minister Ballou prepared himself to teach and preach by attending first a community school and then a nearby academy. Despite the fact that his friends after hearing his first sermon delivered in 1791 doubted his "talent for such labor" Ballou preached wherever he found an open door. The next year he determined to make the ministry his career even though he had to support himself by teaching. In 1793 he went to the first of the nearly fifty New England Universalist conventions he would attend and by the next year's session he had so impressed his colleagues that they spontaneously ordained him. In 1796 Ballou moved to Dana Massachusetts and in September of that year he married Ruth Washburn; they had nine children. In addition to ministering to churches primarily in Massachusetts and Vermont where he and his family moved in 1803 Ballou participated wholeheartedly in Universalist doctrinal controversies. His theology and original thinking shaped Universalist doctrine particularly in three areas: its transition from a trinitarian to a unitarian belief in the nature of God its belief that all sins would be punished on earth and its new perspective on the doctrine of the atonement. Fitting these ideas together Ballou gave Universalist theology more coherence. Ballou early published two works Notes on the Parables 1804 in which he stressed that one should not attempt to gain eternal life through legal righteousness and A Treatise on Atonement 1805 his most influential work. In Treatise he rethought the theology that John Murray the chief founder of American Universalism had derived from the English preacher James Relly. Rejecting the doctrine of vicarious atonement or substitutionary sacrifice in which Christ suffered on the cross to atone for the sins of humanity Ballou insisted that "every sinner must bear the penalty of his own disobedience" Allen and Eddy p. 435 and that Christ suffered to show human beings the way to God's love. Yet Ballou believed that rather than "a wrathful deity seeking justice" God was "full of infinite love" given to all "not reserved for a select few" Miller vol. 1 p. 104. John Coleman Adams who wrote the introduction to Treatise's fourteenth edition in 1902 called it "one of the great books on American theology" and "the first American book to anticipate all the essential points of. liberal theology" Miller vol. 2 p. 865. Ballou was unable to find scriptural justification for the doctrine of the Trinity so he rejected it and embraced unitarianism. Christ he insisted was not co-equal with God but was God's representative to the world. Ballou spiced his reasoning with a little humor declaring "If the Godhead consists of three distinct persons and each of those persons is infinite the whole Godhead amounts to the amazing sum of infinity multiplied by three!" Miller vol. 1 p. 105. By 1805 Ballou's acceptance of unitarianism like his view of the atonement had "pervaded the Universalist ministry with but few exceptions" Miller vol. 1 p. 105. One of these exceptions was Murray whose Boston pulpit Ballou filled for ten Sundays in 1798. On Ballou's last Sunday when he rose to give notice of the closing hymn an announcement instigated by Judith Sargent Murray the minister's wife rang out from the choir loft: "The doctrine which has been preached here this afternoon is not the doctrine which is usually preached in this house" Eddy vol. 1 p. 509. Chagrined at the rudeness of this announcement and wanting to hear more of Ballou's revisionist preaching some members of Murray's congregation offered to start a second Universalist church in Boston if Ballou would move there. But he discouraged them saying "I cannot do anything to injure Brother Murray nor the beloved society to which he ministers" Eddy vol. 1 p. 511. From 1809 until 1815 Ballou--who supported the War of 1812 despite its unpopularity in New England--preached and operated with his grandnephew Hosea Ballou II a small school in Portsmouth New Hampshire. He also continued his religious controversies. "So addicted" was he "to the argumentative" a contemporary noted "that even his prayers" were "characterized by it" Miller vol. 1 p. 103. After a brief stay in Salem Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1817 Ballou became the first pastor of the School Street Church the newly formed Second Society of Universalists in Boston. Nearly two decades after he had first been urged to come to Boston he settled and remained there for the rest of his life. While in Boston he engaged in frequent preaching tours continued his writing and became his denomination's "oracle very nearly its pope" Miller vol. 1 p. 182. In 1819 Ballou became the first editor of the Universalist Magazine which became the leading denominational newspaper. In 1830 with his grandnephew Hosea Ballou he edited the scholarly journal Universalist Expositor which later was renamed the Universalist Quarterly and General Review. In 1834 Ballou published another major work An Examination of the Doctrine of Future Retribution which was partly an outgrowth of the Restorationist Controversy a theological argument over whether there would be future punishment as Calvinists and the founders of Universalism had believed. After being ambivalent on the subject in 1817 and 1818 Ballou who was one of the first Universalists to discuss the controversy formally later said there would be no future punishment then decided there would be a time when "the impenitent will be miserable" and finally reverting to his former opinion came down firmly against "any belief in punishment in a future state" Miller vol. 1 p. 113. Although some of Ballou's colleagues with Calvinist leanings threatened to leave the church over the controversy and used the unpleasantness surrounding it to challenge his dominant position in the church nearly all Universalists by 1827 agreed with him that the idea of future punishment was repellent. Called Father Ballou and very much the elder statesman of his denomination he died in Boston. His influence fellow Universalists maintained was "greater on the religious mind than that of any other clergyman of the age" Miller vol. 1 p. 103. As a self-taught man whose writings lacked polish and whose sermons were "always and entirely argumentative" his great influence is remarkable Miller vol. 1 p. 103. By holding fast to truth as he saw it Ballou gave Universalism an undergirding it had previously lacked. For him "truth--plain simple and unadorned"--constituted "the all and the everything" Miller vol. 1 p. 103." - American National Biography Olive Hoogenboom David Watson 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
180427384New Haven: Printed for Simeon Jocelin. From Sidney's Press 1804. First edition. Disbound. Lacking the wrappers some light dampstaining to the top edge else about very good. 46 pp. 8vo. Simeon Jocelyn 1746-1823 was the publisher of the Chorister's Companion 1782-3 where he followed Andrew Law's approach to mix English and American and the new and the old composers. In 1787 he published A Collection of Favorite Psalm Tunes. Neither Sabin nor Shaw and Shoemaker list Jocelin as the author. Scarce. OCLC & RLIN show 10 copies. Sabin 50494. Shaw and Shoemaker 6820. Printed for Simeon Jocelin... From Sidney's Press unknown books
1930005401The Open Court Publ. Co./ W. W. Norton & Co. 1930. RARE First Edition of this major philosophical work by Lovejoy who is most famous for his work The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea 1936. Very Good no jacket gilt title at spine a bit rubbed still legible. This copy 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/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Open Court Publ. Co./ W. W. Norton & Co. Hardcover books
191130865New York: The Macmillan Company 1911. First American edition. Cloth. Good . Small navy clothbound 8vo lettered in gilt. 200 numbered pages with several pages of ads at rear of volume. This is the authorized translation of Bergson's work as translated by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell. Some fraying to the coth covers at the spine tips. A well-bound clean copy with a prior owner name in pencil on the front endpaper. The Macmillan Company unknown books
192626074London: Philp Lee Warner 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. Good /very good. Sold here together are the first two volumes of philisophical translations of Plotinus: The Ethical Treatises. Quarter oatmeal cloth over boards in printed dustwrappers Volume One is from 1926 and Volume Two is from 1921. Prior owner name/date to Volume Two endpaper else internally clean and unmarked volumes. Boards of both volumes are lightly worn and stained about the edges. The dustwrappers show general light wear and toning. 158 and 246 pp respectively. Philp Lee Warner hardcover books
