The World's Great Thinkers (4 volume set) de Saxe Commins and Robert N Linscott, editors - 1947

New York, 1947. First edition thus, FIRST PRINTING STATED. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents a very special 4 volume edition in the ORIGINAL SLIPCASE: THE WORLD'S GREAT THINKERS Volume One (Man and Man) includes Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, De Montaigne, Emerson, and Dewey Volume 2 (Man and the State) includes Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Rousseau, Thoreau, Smith, Hegel, and Marx Volume 3 (Man and the Universe) includes Lucretius, Copernicus, Bacon, Descartes, Comte, Darwin, Bergson, Freud, Whitehead, Jeans, Eddington, and Einstein Volume 4 (Man and Spirit) includes St Augustine, Aquinas, The Upanishads, The Bhagavadgita, The Surungama Sutra, The Dhammapada, Spinoza, Pascal, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and James 4 7/8" x 7 1/2" (will require additional postage), 2,047 pages divided among the 4 volumes, together with the ORIGINAL BLUE SLIPCASE. Books are all NEAR FINE. Only signs of wear: one reverse back cover has 2 lines of writing in light pencil, slight fading of spine elements, slight staining to edges of reverse covers from glue, else all are sharp, tight, clear, As New Covers are salmon cloth boards with a black square in which particulars appear in gold gilt. Original blue slipcase is very good minus: tape on one corner is preventing splitting. Price is for 4 books in the slipcase.