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Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1999. As New condition. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. 5.75" wide by 9" tall. Trade paperback. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrations. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Publisher's pictorial wraps. From the rear cover: "BECLOUDED VISIONS is an exploration of the many and varied ways in which atrocity has shaped the requirements of art, vision, and collective memory in the twentieth century. The atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki serve as a starting point, but what begins as a study of visual culture related to the atomic bombings soon generates questions that can be applied to multiple sites and practices of communal remembrance. Drawing on a diverse array of images -- ranging from military photographs to survivor paintings -- Maclear… Leer más

Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1983. SIGNED in black ink by the AUTHOR directly on the front free endpaper (his signature, and a 12 line handwritten philosophical statement by him. NOT personalized to anyone). NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Near Fine condition (lower corner of the cover rubbed). NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue leatherette (imitation leather).. SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii, 208pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1968. Facsimile reprint of the 1930 original. Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth. 6.75" wide by 10.25" tall.. 1968 reprint of the 1930 original. Hardcover. New/in publisher's shrinkwrap. 134pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959. Near Fine condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are fresh and crisp. Illustrated with four halftone plate. Select bibliography. Index. "First published 1959" is so stated on the copyright page. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (21s net). 8vo. 240pp..

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 1997. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (only light shelfwear). NO chips, tears, or fading. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. List of chapter notes. Index. Bound in the original black leatherette, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "In this exciting interpretation of the Odyssey, the late renowned scholar Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings. In light of this possibility, Bernardete works back and forth from Homer to Plato to examine the relation between wisdom and justice and tries to recover an original understanding of… Leer más

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Foreword by George Kimball Plochmann. A volume in the Philosophical Explorations series. Index. Original gray cloth. Keywords: Theory of Knowledge, Reflective Thought, Objectivity, Subjectivity . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, probably as issued. 8vo. xix, 248pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974. 5" wide by 8" tall. Three sentences underlined on one page only. Tight and square. Not price clipped (4.95). No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Translated with an Introduction by Walter Lowrie, D.D. Index. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+ condition. xviii, 389pp .

East Braintree, VT: Cantieglen Publishing, 2002. Very Good condition. Flat, uncreased spine. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. NO highlighting. Page 392 is poorly printed, with a few lines smudged. A small handful of pages with underlining/margin notes -- most in easily erasable pencil. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. 2002. Second edition, with changes (so stated). Bound in the original baby blue pictorial wraps. From the publisher: "In depth commentary on a modern translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Kenneth Telford, well versed in both Greek linguistics and philosophical or scientific procedure.". Second edition, with changes. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxxvi, 427pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Akasha Publishing, 2008. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Volume I only (of 2). Bound in the original pictorial wrappers. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. From the rear cover: "One of the most influential thinkers of Ancient Greece or any other era, Plato formed the basis of Western philosophy. Mostly written in the form of dialogues with his teacher Socrates as the protagonist, his works address themes as varied as metaphysics, psychology, pedagogy, politics, and ethics. Despite the weighty subject matter, Plato's writing remains accessible to the general reader, and infused with wit and humor. Why is Plato worth reading today? His dialogues are vitally concerned with how we should live. His arguments always have an engagement with life. He combines the logical rigor of a philosopher… Leer más

Centre de Traitement de l'Information Scientifique [CETIS], EURATOM C. C. R., Ispra, 1961. Good condition. 21 cm x 29.5 cm. Staple-bound green paper wrappers, mildly faded, with a few tiny chips at the edges. Mimeographed? typescript. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are age-toned (lightly browned), but clean and unmarked. Rapport CETIS No. 26, aout 1961. Preface by F. van Scheepen. This book contains 17 chapters -- 7 in English, 9 in French, 1 in German. Among them are: No. 1) Méthodes de déduction by E. W. Beth; 3) Remarques sur la théorie des pseudo-valuations by E. W. Beth; 5) On the length of proofs by Amitabha Ghose; 8) Construction sémantique de la logique inférentielle by E. W. Beth; 9) A discussion of Carton's Proposed Mechanical Proof Procedure for Geometry by Th. Bruyn; 10) Observations concerning computation, deduction and heuristics by E. W. Beth; 13) Le système S4 et la topologie by E. W. Beth; 17) Recherches sur les… Leer más

Bridgewater, MA: Signature Press (World Publications Group), 2008. Fine condition but for two sentences underlined in the Preface. All other pages are clean and unmarked. Sharp corners. Flat spine. NO chips, tears or fading. Square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. English translation by H. R. James. Preface by John S. Bowman. Bound in the original pale gray laminated boards, stamped with a darker gray pattern, and lettered in black.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (ii), 109pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Paris: Librairie Philosophique de Ladrange, 1864. Rear inner hinge starting to crack else Very Good condition. Clean, square, unmarked copy. Bound in blue cloth, with gilt-decorated spine and maroon leather spine label. Third Edition in French of Kant's CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON. Translated from the German by J. Tissot. Volume 1 only. From the title page: "Comprenant toutes les différences entre les deux premières éditions allemandes, les seules données par l'auteur, avec l'analyse de l'ouvrage entier par Mellin; le tout traduit de l'allemand." Printing and the Mind of Man 226. With ink stamp "From the Library of Le Duc de Richelieu, 1875-1952.". Third French Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. xxxi, 414pp.

Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1947. Very Good condition. 16.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Bound in the original off-white paper wrappers, stamped in red and black. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Text in Spanish. This is one of several dozen books and periodicals from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature, or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately, this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. [But please check our inventory for several others that do]. Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995) was professor of mathematics at Princeton University (1929-1967) and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA (1967-1990). He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem, Church's Thesis, the Church-Turing Thesis, and the Lambda Calculus. His work was… Leer más

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1931. Near Fine condition. 4.5" wide by 6.5" tall. A tight copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in the original maroon cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. No fading. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. (vi), 56pp.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. As New condition. Review copy. Softcover. 6" wide by 9.25" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Not a remainder. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Laid-in is a typed letter from the publisher to Tamar Jacoby [justice editor for Newsweek, deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page, and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute]. From the rear cover: "A landmark defense of civilization that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our world. From the author of THE HARVEST OF SORROW and one of the world's most respected humanists comes this long-awaited work of history and philosophy. THE DRAGONS OF EXPECTATION -- in the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's THE CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY and George Orwell's ESSAYS -- brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern… Leer más

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982. 5.5" wide by 8.25" tall. Previous owner's name. A few light scratches on the cover. Otherwise bright, clean, tight, square, and unmarked. No creases. No remainder mark. No store stamp or bookplate. From the Preface: "The essays that follow in this collection attempt both to come to terms with Emerson's modernity and to cast an eye back on his origins and development. In their range of reference they suggest not only how extensively Emerson is linked to the present but also how firmly he was rooted in America's past and in the history of his own time." Harvard English Studies 10. Keywords: Transcendentalism . First Printing of the First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. vii, 197pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2000. Appears unread. Fine condition. Mild EX-LIBRARY, without any library markings on the book's spine or covers. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Library markings on the edges of the textblock and front endpapers only. All other pages are crisp and unmarked -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2000. First Printing of the First Edition, with complete number row (12345) on the copyright page. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in shiny silver on the spine. From the publisher: "Philosophers and theorists have long been puzzled by humans' ability to talk about things that do not exist, or to talk about things that they think exist but, in fact, do not. EMPTY NAMES, FICTION, AND THE PUZZLES OF NON-EXISTENCE is a collection of 13 new works concerning the semantic and metaphysical… Leer más

New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1962. Very Good condition. A square, tight copy. Inner hinges are perfect. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Footnotes. Chronological Table. Select Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gray cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Some of the 10 chapters are: The earlier stoics and pantheism; Stoic psychology and epistemology; Moral idealism; The teachings of the later stoics; Epicurus and hedonism; The atomic theory; The epicurean theology; Scepticism in the academy: Carneades; Eclecticism; etc.. Reprint of the 1910 Scribner's ed. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. xix, 412pp.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997. A beautiful, pristine copy. New condition in a New Dust Jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. Foreword by Alexander Nehamas. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise and Franklin Philip. A volume in the New French Thought series. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original pale lavender cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "[T]he author explores the most salient feature of post-structuralism: the elimination of the human subject… Renaut argues that modern philosophy contains within itself two opposed ways of conceiving the human person. The first, which has its roots in Descartes and Kant, views human beings as subjects capable of arriving at universal moral judgments. The second, stemming from Leibniz, Hegel,… Leer más

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1952. Near Fine condition. NOT a library discard. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. NO owner's name. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Has 7 sections on: the fundamental problem; the primary distinctions, art, science, philosophy, religion, and education. Footnotes. Bound in the original gray cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. vi, 163pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.