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1905RCOUSAM00RJBOrmand Coulam 1905 - 1937. Very Good. Coulam Ormand comp. Sammelband of literature encountered and/or used by Elder Ormand Coulam on mission to England. Russell Bertrand; Whitney Orson F.; Penrose Charles W.; McAllister D. M.; Widtsoe John A.; Talmage James E.; Merrill Joseph F. NP: Ormand Coulam 1905 - 1937. Paginated by pamphletpp. 12mo. Blue fine-grain pebbled cloth. Book condition: Very good with very light bumps to upper corners and very light rubbing to extremities. Coulam's signature etc. penned on front free endsheet and subsequent owner's signature penned on front pastedown. Underlining and marginalia penned occasionally. Coulam served with future president Gordon Hinckley. Ormand Coulam hardcover books
19551327138London: B. T. Batsford 1955. Hardcover. Octavo; G Hardcover w/ G- Hardcover; Black spine with Light Red text; Dustjacket has moderate edgewear some shelfwear sunning to spine open tears at corners wrinkling along head edge of spine and both covers small closed tears along head edge of front cover open and closed tears along head edge of spine small closed tears along tail edge of spine open tear along fore edge of front cover; Boards strong some edgewear some shelfwear; Textblock has age toning inscription from author Henry Usborne on front endpaper heavier toning on endpapers and pastedowns foxing along fore edge of textblock; 160 pp; Inscribed by author Henry Usborne. 1327138. FP New Rockville Stock. B. T. Batsford hardcover books
1949024839London: George Allen & Unwin 1949. 3d impression second edition. xxiii 311p. slightly foxed on the fore-edge dj. George Allen & Unwin unknown books
194946770London: George Allen & Unwin 1949. First edition 12mo pp. 125 3; frontispiece; fine copy in original cream cloth and unclipped dust jacket jacket slightly soiled. <br/><br/> George Allen & Unwin hardcover books
198655382Amherst:: Prometheus Books. Near Fine. 1986. Paperback. 0879753234 . Edited by Al Seckel. First edition paperback. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . Prometheus Books, paperback books
1983002866London etc.: George Allen & Unwin 1983. Edited by Kenneth Blackwell et al. xxxiv 554p. front. port. 8 facs. illus. original blue cloth. His The collected papers 1. George Allen & Unwin unknown books
195265971NY:: Philosophical Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Edited and with an introduction by Lester E. Denonn. First edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear fading along the spine dust jacket. . Philosophical Library, hardcover books
19272309093New York: Boni & Liveright 1927. 8th Printing. 8th Printing. Very Good/No Jacket. Eighth printing. No jacket. Ink name and address on front free endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 319 pp. "The British philosopher's treatise on the values of intellectual and moral education. Boni & Liveright unknown books
1930203054Munich: Drei Masken 1930. paperback. very good. Translated into German by E. J. Gumbel and W. Gordon. 212 pages. 8vo original gray printed wrappers light wear at spine ends. Munich: Drei Masken 1930. A very good copy with ownership signature of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> Drei Masken unknown books
19612309100London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1961. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Jacket clipped jacket reverse taped jacket spine base bumped. 1961 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 282 pp. "Selected essays articles addresses and short stories. Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life including fiction essays on politics and education divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and peace it is in this classic collection that Russell states some of his most famous pronouncements on nuclear warfare and international relations. It is a remarkable book that provides valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of convictions of one of the world's greatest philosophers. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd unknown books
1961112700London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1961. Octavo boards. First edition. A miscellany of essays sketches stories parables and transcriptions of dreams and nightmares. A bit of foxing to fore-edge of text block a near fine copy in good dust jacket with considerable dust soiling to rear panel and clipped price. #112700 George Allen & Unwin Ltd unknown books
1965010658New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. 1st U.S. Printing. viii 184p. dj. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1962WRCLIT30631New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Near fine in a rubbed lightly soiled dust jacket. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1946124638London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1946. First English edition of the book universally hailed as the most outstanding work on the subject of Western philosophy. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. One of the most important philosophical works of all time Russell's History of Western Philosophy provides a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant philosophers throughout the ages--from Plato and Aristotle through to Spinoza Kant and the twentieth century. Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy is still unparalleled in its comprehensiveness its clarity its erudition its grace and its wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. George Allen and Unwin Ltd hardcover books
19552309909London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1955. 5th Printing. 5th Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Fifth printing. Jacket clipped jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1955 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 916 pp. Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness its clarity its erudition its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras Heraclitus Parmenides Empedocles Anaxagoras the Atomists Protagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle the Cynics the Sceptics the Epicureans the Stoics Plotinus Ambrose Jerome Augustine Benedict Gregory the Great John the Scot Aquinas Duns Scotus William of Occam Machiavelli Erasmus More Bacon Hobbes Descartes Spinoza Leibniz Locke Berkeley Hume Rousseau Kant Hegel Schopenhauer Nietzsche the Utilitarians Marx Bergson James Dewey and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor Frege and Whitehead co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica. George Allen and Unwin Ltd unknown books
1943178445Gerard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1943. paperback. fine. The past as the Key to the Future. 24p. printed gray wrappers. Gerard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1943. Fine copy of this fragile hence scarce publication.<br/><br/> Haldeman-Julius unknown books
19482309088New York: Simon and Schuster 1948. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket. Minor general wear. 1948 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi 524 pp. "How do we know what we "know" How did we Simon and Schuster unknown books
195526811New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1955. First American Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped a nice clean book with no significant wear just a touch of fading along the top edges of the covers; a bit of scuffing and soiling to the jacket's rear panel and very slight fading at the edges of the front panel and along the spine. In this "examination of the basic human passions and their effect on human destiny" the author applies "his unique gift for making a distinction exciting and a definition clear to the most fundamental ethical concepts of modern philosophy." . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
19631497London: George Allen and Unwin 1963. 11th impression xv 208p. dj some ink annotation on pp. 3-10 Muirhead library of philosophy. George Allen and Unwin unknown books
19562309099London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1956. 9th Printing. 9th Printing. Very Good/Very Good. Ninth printing. Jacket reverse taped top edge of jacket bumped. Top page ridge faintly foxed bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1956 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii 208 pp. "Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy has been a seminal work for more than nine decades. It gives the general background necessary for any serious discussion on the foundational crisis of mathematics in the beginning of the twentieth century. Requiring neither prior knowledge of mathematics nor aptitude for mathematical symbolism the book serves as essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of mathematics and logic and in the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century. Russell offers to his readers a penetrating discussion on certain issues of mathematical logic that embodies the dawn of modern analytic philosophy. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd unknown books
196659467London/ New York: George Allen & Unwin Ltd/The Macmillan Company. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. Third Impression. 382pp. turquoise colored boards with gilt stamping to spine a clean nice copy. Very Good in a Very Good dj. . George Allen & Unwin Ltd/The Macmillan Company hardcover books
19292309086New York: Horace Liveright 1929. Second Edition. Second Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. No jacket. Minor general wear. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. "Russell's approach to sex and love is based on the realities of need and desire rather than on ancient tribal and religious taboos. Marriage and Morals is a clear unbiased look at morality a morality that is simply one aspect of Russell's lifelong opposition to restrictive dogma and an affirmation of his unshakeable faith in the adequacy of man and the power of human intellect. Horace Liveright unknown books
192951189NY: Liveright 1929. Third printing. 8vo pp. 320. Blue cloth. A section cut out of the upper corner of the flyleaf cover slightly soiled and little worn at edges o/w a VG tight copy. Liveright unknown books
1929117490New York: Horace Liveright 1929. First edition of this work by Russell in which he questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. Octavo original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition. An exceptional signed example. According to Russell he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Marriage and Morals. "When I was called to Stockholm at the end of 1950 to receive the Nobel Prize -- somewhat to my surprise for literature for my book Marriage and Morals -- I was apprehensive since I remembered that exactly 300 years earlier Descartes had been called to Scandinavia by Queen Christina in the winter time and had died of the cold" Russell Autobiography p. 521. which Russell questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. In Marriage and Morals Russell argues that the laws and ideas about sex of his time were a potpourri from various sources which were no longer valid with the advent of contraception as the sexual acts are now separated from the conception. He argues that family is most important for the welfare of children and as such a man and a woman should be considered bound only after her first pregnancy. Horace Liveright hardcover books
192954042New York: Horace Liveright 1929. First edition of this work by Russell in which he questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his publisher "To Horace Liveright from Bertrand Russell with love & admiration." The recipient Horace Liveright<b> </b>was an American publisher and stage producer. With Albert Boni he founded the Modern Library and Boni & Liveright publishers. He published the books of numerous influential American and British authors. In 1917 Liveright founded the Modern Library. It was formed as a reprinting line publishing inexpensive books from European modernists while Liveright published the work of contemporary Americans. <sup id="cite_ref-ModernLibrary_5-0" class="reference"></sup>Liveright published work by T. S. Eliot The Waste Land Charles Fort The Book of the Damned Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy and Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals. The company also published the first books by Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner Hart Crane Dorothy Parker and S. J. Perelman. In very good with light rubbing. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. A significant association. According to Russell he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Marriage and Morals. "When I was called to Stockholm at the end of 1950 to receive the Nobel Prize -- somewhat to my surprise for literature for my book Marriage and Morals -- I was apprehensive since I remembered that exactly 300 years earlier Descartes had been called to Scandinavia by Queen Christina in the winter time and had died of the cold" Russell Autobiography p. 521. which Russell questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. In Marriage and Morals Russell argues that the laws and ideas about sex of his time were a potpourri from various sources which were no longer valid with the advent of contraception as the sexual acts are now separated from the conception. He argues that family is most important for the welfare of children and as such a man and a woman should be considered bound only after her first pregnancy. Horace Liveright hardcover books
