Notre Dame, Indiana: Dumb Ox, 1995. Paperback. Previous owner's ex-libris inside front cover. A couple of faint dimples to rear upper corner. Tiny bump to rear lower corner. Black lettering to spine and front of vanilla-colored wraps. 839 pp. Clean, bright, solid. Thomas comments on twelve books which he finds... More
New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1872. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Previous owner's name, in pencil, to front endpaper dated 1879. Notations, in pencil, to RPDEP. Corners bumped and worn to cardboard. Spine caps lightly freyed and folded under. Spine and board edges lightly worn. A light 2"... More
Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Press, 1923. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. Solid volume. Slight curve to front board. Lightly age tanned pages with light acid transfer to endpapers. Silver metallic lettering on spine and front of blue, cloth-covered boards. 106 pp. Clean and tight. Published in India the previous year (1922). Daily... More
Philadelphia: Byberry : John Comly, 1844. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION. Previous owner's name to preliminary page. Foxing to endpapers and throughout book. Age-tanned. Book measures 6.25 x 4 x .25". Gilt lettering to spine of brown, cloth-covered boards. 137 pp with advertisements to rear of book. Tight. "The following pages have... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1881. Paperback. Previous owner's name to front free endpapers. Denim-blue cloth-covered boards. Contrasting red spine labels and double-rules, in gilt, at head and foot. Light wear to extremities and age-tanning to both volumes. Hinges started and small closed tears, .5", to head of both volumn's... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 1890. Hardcover. TEG. A 1.5" closed tear to front, upper spine, otherwise, this is very solid for a book of its age. There is a tiny light ripple to the edge of the front board cloth. Corners are lightly worn. Untrimmed fore- and bottom... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1899. Hardcover. Gilt lettering to spine and front of cranberry-red, cloth-covered boards. Front hinges started. Moderate wear to extremities. Worn corners nudged and/or bumped. Mild scuffing. There is a 1" scratch to front cover and a very thin crease the full width of rear... More
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1910. Hardcover. Soft flexible Leather binding with gilt lettering and art nouveau design to front. Tissue-guarded frontispiece of Emerson's home. Green endpapers torn and partially missing. 30 pp. Fragile. "The word of ambition at the present day is Culture. Whilst all the world is in... More
Boston: H. H. Carter & Karrick, 1886. Hardcover. Light rippling plus recurring stain to bottom of text block. Moderate scuffing and wear to boards and corners. Age-tanned. Ocassional light pencil marginalia. Beveled edges. Gilt lettering to spine and front of dark blue cloth-covered board. Two black bands wrap from spine... More
New York: Humanities Press, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Gilt lettering to spine, black cloth-covered boards. Mylar protective covering. Very clean, tight, bright. 291 pp with sources, bibliographies, index of references, index of names, and index of subjects. Contents include: Objects and things; Propositions and Pictures; Names, signs and symbols;... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1976. Second Printing. Hardcover. Previous owner's name to front paste-down endpapers. Slight spine lean. Dustjacket Very Good Plus. Faint 1.5" water stain to upper rear jacket. Jacket Mylar protected. Gilt lettering to spine of navy-blue cloth-covered boards. 91 pp. Clean, tight, bright. "It's a 'delicious' book... More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. FIRST PRINTING. HARDCOVER. Part of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy series. Minor shelfwear. Includes 20-page reference section in back. More
Los Angeles, California: Philosophical Research Society, 1944. Second Edition. HARDCOVER. Manly Palmer Hall was an enormously prolific author and mystic who in his lifetime published more than 150 books and articles, and delivered thousands of lectures. He founded the Philosophical Research Society, dedicated to the study of religion, mythology, and... More
New York: Hall & Co, 1889. Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Dark brown lettering and design on spine and front of brown, cloth-covered boards. Text is age-tanned. Hinges started. Moderate wear and scuffing to edges and corners. Sweet olive-green floral endpapers. Back cover is partially detached from text block. Broken... More
Seattle: Rosicrucian Fellowship, 1910. Hardcover. STATED FIRST EDITION. ALL EDGES GILT. Moderately worn boards. Rubbing to edges. Nudged corners. Hinges started. Gilt lettering to spine and front of olive green, cloth-covered boards. Gilt, red and black design to front board. 13 diagrams. 430 pp. Advertisements to rear of book. Clean... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth with black binding. Rubbing to extremities, and few dimples, scratches and what appears to be a binder's error to front board. Slightly musty, but not bad. Boldly SIGNED (not inscribed) to front free endpaper. Rear free endpaper... More
Los Angeles: Theosophy Magazine, 1918. Hardcover. This small, thin book is solid. Edges and corners a bit worn. Tiny bump to one corner. Front board shows a light overall "splash" of something dark but isn't readily seen. Gilt lettering and design on front of dark, olive-green, cloth-covered boards. 64 pp... More
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973. Hardcover. PRIVATELY OWNED. NO MARKINGS. Silver metallic lettering to spine and front dark avacado-green, cloth-covered boards. 163 pp with conclusion and index. Clean, bright, tight. Contents : The Naturalistic Theory of Being and the Method of Philosophy ; The Phenomenological Theory of Being... More
West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1993. Paperback. NEAR FINE. Previous owner's ex-libris inside front cover. Rose-beige wraps, black and white lettering with photo on front cover. 222 pp with select bibiography and index. Clean, bright, solid. Includes Latin text and English translation of Aquinas's De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas... More
LONDON: Longmans, Green and Co. 1901. HARDCOVER. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Spine a little discolored, corners scuffed, one torn. Creasing and rubbing at spine extremities but still a good tight binding. Text clean and bright, some margin markings on Longmans list of titles at back of volume. Some paper acid... More
LONDON: Longmans, Green and Co. 1901. HARDCOVER. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Spine a little discolored, corners scuffed. Couple of small marks on front board and finger pulling with small tear to spine head but still a good tight binding. Text clean and bright. Some paper acid discoloration on endpapers. Late... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1976. Paperback. Standard paperbook size. Mild edgewear and scuffing to covers. Age-tanning. 248 pp with An Invitation and About the Author to rear of book. Clean and solid. Contents : Part I. Dynamics of Meditation ; Part II. Questions and Answers ; Part III. Techniques. More
CHICAGO, ILL: University of Chicago Press. Paperback. VOLUMES 1 & 2 Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. Volume 3 by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer. Even spotting to top edge, from being stored. Check our inventory for other volumes in this series. Volume 1: 0226713326 (1983) Volume 2 0226713342 (1984) Volume 3 0226713369 (1984). More
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994. Hardcover. Papers originally presented at three conferences held in 1990, 1991, and 1992, sponsored by the Institute for Liberat Studies at the University of Kentucky, offering a wide ranjge of philosophical and theological perspectives on the relationship of science, technology, and religion. 244 pp. More
BOSTON, MASS: Meador Publishing Company, 1956. Hardcover. First Edition. Result of the author's decades of "effort to make peace between a religious attitude toward the world and a somewhat sceptical mind..." He writes that he "went through the world with a reverent attitude yet an almost total absence of doctrine... More
