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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 1157 pp. A massive anthology of 18th-century French literature. Foreword in English. 7 pp. illustrations. Text in FRENCH. Representation of Les Philosophes (Fontenelle, Bayle, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Buffon, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, De Sade, Robespierre; works on painting, original poetry, and, of course theatre. No major defects except embossed private library stamp on title page, else a clean and solid book. Very good..

London: J. M. Dent, 1919. Book. Illus. by RLK. Good. Cloth. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. London: Dent, 1919. Reprint of first edition (1912). 12mo. Olive cloth with brown titles and art nouveau decoration on spine. Art nouveau endpapers and titles by "RLK". Introduction by A. D. Lindsay. Ernest Rhys, general editor. Hinge showing at page 1. Some underlining in pencil in introduction. Light edgewear a little heavier at bottom of spine. Boards lightly soiled. Good condition. Scarce..

Boston: Beacon, 1960. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo. Boston: Beacon, 1960. First edition, second printing. 8vo. Trade paperback, 101 pp. First four pages have underlining, otherwise the book appears unread, uncreased. Good..

Boston: Atlantic/Little Brown Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo. Cloth. 3 volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs. One of the most significant autobiographies of our times, which spans nearly a century of social and intellectual change, by author, philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist Russell. Volume 1 is a second printing; Volumes 2 and 3 are first editions, first printings. All near fine in very good dustjackets in mylar covers..

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First U.S. edition. 8vo. Cloth. 240 p. A comprehensive discussion of bioethics and genetic engineering, including such controversial issues as birth and death issues, test tube babies, egg and sperm storage, transplantation, cryogenics, eugenics, gene warfare, and the philosophy of biological tinkering. Spine faded. Minor edgewear. Near fine..

New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1902. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Decorative Silk. Signed/Inscribed by Author. First Edition. 12mo.. New York: Neely, 1902. First edition. 12mo. Dark blue decorative silk binding with flag design in red in blind, titles in red. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on free front endpaper. Frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature, 259 pp. John A. Joyce (1842 - 1915) was a Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, serving with the 24th Kentucky Infantry.. Corners rubbed. Very good..

London: University College Library Letter. Very Good. No Binding. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 128 pp. of photocopied correspondence acquired through the University College Library. Very good condition..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1902. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Standard Library Edition. 8vo. Cloth. 427 p. Part of the Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske with many portraits of illustrious philosophers, scientists, and other men of note, in twelve volumes. Fiske was an American author and philosopher. Very good..

New York and London: Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1929. Book. Very Good. Paper covered boards. Tall 8vo.. New York and London: Encyclopaedia Brittanica, copyright 1929. No edition stated. Laid paper over cloth spine. Rag paper. 61 pp. Large paper format. No writing inside. Light scuffing to boards. Very good..

New York: International Publishers, 1932. Ex-Library. Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: International Publishers, 1932. First American edition. Authorized translation. 8vo. Books 1 and 2. Book 2: Cloth binding, 350 pp. Volume XXl of collected works. Writings and speeches by Lenin during the Bolshevik Revolution. Ex-library. Front hinge cracked with tape repair. Good condition. Book 1: Red cloth binding, 304 pp. Gently used ex-university library, with a few pencil ticks in margins, spine sunned. Solid, clean copy in good condition..

Cologne, Germany: Rebel Pub. House, 1997. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo. Cologne: Rebel Publishing House, 1997. 8vo. Black cloth binding, 321 pp. A synthesis of the author's take on communism and zen. Previous owner initials. Dust jacket has repaired tear at spine. Very good in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover..

New York: A. L. Burt and Company Book. Near Fine. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece illustration. 319 pp. No publishing date -- circa 1915. Part of the Home Library. Minor shelfwear. Near fine..

Boston: Ticknor & Fields Book. Very Good. Cloth over Marble Boards. Reprint. 12mo.. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 12mo. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. 12mo. Cloth over marble boards, 288 pp. Endpapers tanned, foxing here and there. Very good..

London Book. Illus. by Hedouin, Ed.. Good. Hardcover. 8vo. London: For the trade, no publication date. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 631 pp. Soiling to boards, corners rubbed, some cracking to hinges. Good..

New York, NY: Pantheon, 1968. Book. Very Good. Quarter Cloth. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Pantheon, 1968. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over blue boards with gilt and silver lettering embossed on spine and gilt decoration embossed on front board, green top edge on text block, rough cut pages, 201 pp. Dust jacket has slight discolorations, mostly on back, crease on front flap. Bindings are faded top and bottom. Appears gently read. Very good in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 281 pp. Dust jacke price-clipped with tiny repaired tear and a few small smudges and light stain. A lucid, well-written exposition of the theories of the main Modern French critics from Marcel Raymond to the most recent book of Jean-Pierre Richard (Rene Wellek). Rejecting formal, objective textual analysis, these critics, most of them French, advocate a systematically empathetic reading of any literary work. Fine in good dust jacket, protected with a mylar cover..

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth binding, 281 pp. Dust jacke price-clipped with tiny repaired tear and a few small smudges and light stain. A lucid, well-written exposition of the theories of the main Modern French critics from Marcel Raymond to the most recent book of Jean-Pierre Richard (Rene Wellek). Rejecting formal, objective textual analysis, these critics, most of them French, advocate a systematically empathetic reading of any literary work. Fine in fine dust jacket, protected with a mylar cover..

Paris: Editions Du Seuil, 1966. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 79 pp. Softcover book in good condition, a few pencil notes inside, one corner bent. In French. Good..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1870. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Modern Classics edition. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. 107 p. Shelfwear. Very good..

New York: A.L. Burt Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York: Burt. No publishing date (circa 1900). 8vo. Cloth. 340 p. Spencer, an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist best known for coining the term "survival of the fittest," here presents his theories on ethics, philosophy and sociology. Owner's stamp. Very good..