Fribourg, Switzerland: n.p., 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter green calf with gilt spine lettering/rules and marbled paper over boards. 174pp, (2pp). Very good. Binding a bit edgeworn and scuffed, else tight and internally near fine; small Wisconsin convent name inkstamped at bottom of title page. Intriguing, cryptic and strange production, entirely..... More
Indianapolis: C.P. Lesh Paper Co., 1954. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff beige wrappers with red and green lettering. 64pp. Small graphics. Near fine. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only). Tight and quite nice 25th edition of this paper company's promotional booklet -- homespun Hoosier humor. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Translation by Kenelm Foster and Silvester Humphries. Introduction by Ivo Thomas. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with ivory spine lettering, dust jacket. 504pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn (more so spine head/tail), with spine age toned; front flyleaf bears ownership signature and blind-embossed..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, [1981]. Hardcover. Translation by W. Rhys Roberts. 8vo. Full brown calf with gilt lettering, rules and decorations. 244pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, decorative endpapers. Fine. Pristine copy of this modern edition of the ancient Greek philosopher's treatises on the art of persuasion and..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Friedrich Solmsen. Rhetoric translation by W. Rhys Roberts. Poetics translation by Ingram Bywater. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxiii, 729p, (8pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; small front pastedown ownership signature. Nice..... More
Tsaile, AZ: Center for Dine Studies, 1994. Paperback. 4to. Stiff blue wrappers with black cloth tape spine. 130pp. Line drawings. Fine. Ownership signature inside front wrapper, apparently from a pupil of the author while a student at the Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Arizona in 1998. Pristine later printing of..... More
Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown decorated paper over boards. 228pp, (2pp). Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight and attractive later printing (likely 1960s vintage) of this classic, based on this publisher's De Luxe Artists' Editions --this..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxii, 604pp (2pp). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Small ownership signature on front pastedown. First published by ML in 1955, this later printing (ca. 1962) of #256 is tight 'n' bright -- quite..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. xxxii, 604pp (3pp). Grey decorative endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight and decent later printing (circa 1962) of #256, first published by ML in 1955. More
[Springfield]: The Abraham Lincoln Association, June 1945. Paperback. (Vol. III, No. 6). Small 4to. Stiff cream wrappers. Pp. 275-314. Illustration. Near fine. Tight and handsome issue of the noted quarterly, featuring articles "Lincoln's Political Philosophy" by Stanley Pargellis and "Impressions of the President-Elect, 1860" by Thomas Webster Jr. More
New York: The Modern Library, [1960]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxiv, 870pp. Very good. Spine faintly sunned. Tight, attractive later printing of this thick compilation, Modern Library Giant #16, first published in 1960. Rather uncommon. More
New York: The Modern Library, [1960]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xxiv, 870pp. Very good/very good. Quite faint jacket wear; sporadic homely highlighting to some sections. Tight, attractive later printing (circa mid-1980s) of this thick compilation. Would be quite nice but for occasional..... More
New York: The Viking Press, [1981]. Hardcover. Edited by Henry Hardy. Introduction by Noel Annan. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xxx, 219pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Attractive first edition of this memoir by the British philosopher and historian (1909-97). More
Washington, DC: The AEI Press, [2006]. Hardcover. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xi, 244pp, (2pp). Near fine. Handsome first edition of this volume in series editor Christopher C. Demuth's "Landmarks in Contemporary Political Thought" series -- and boldly inscribed and signed by the author in blue fineline on half-title page: "Sept..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Irwin Edman. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. xxii, 406pp (8pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Extremely mild and minor jacket edgewear; ownership signature on jacket front flap, half-title page and one text leaf. Tight, handsome later..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 218pp. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight and nice first edition with an interesting autograph twist: Front flyleaf bears the ownership signature of P.R. Vessie, a Connecticut neurologist who made a name for himself researching Huntington's..... More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering. 489pp. Near fine. Handsome, tight first of this reprint edition of the 1952 examination of Whitman's philosophical views. More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, decorative dust jacket. xxiv, 1041pp, (2pp ads). Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight, handsome later (ca. 1966) Modern Library Giant (#G47), first published in 1939. Subtitled on front jacket panel "The Golden Age..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Translation by Justin O'Brien. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 361pp, (10pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn, with couple of archivally closed (on verso) edge tears; small ownership signature on front pastedown. A tight, most..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1963. Hardcover. Introduction by Hazard Adams. 12mo. Beige cloth, dust jacket. xlvi, 274pp. Near fine/good plus. Blind-embossed ownership name/address on first few pages; jacket slightly rubbed. First U.S. edition, a handsome and tight copy of the British novelist's political treatise. Rather uncommon. More
Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, [2012]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. ix, 372pp. Near fine. Second printing, tight and attractive, of this study -- with neon yellow circular flute-edged "Winner Outstanding Leadership Book Award 2013" sticker on front wrapper. Choice presentation inscription from Cronin in blue fineline on title page: "Bob..... More
New York: Vantage Press, [1956]. Paperback. Small 8vo. Pictorial grey wrappers with inner flaps. 273pp. 6 charts. Near fine. Tight, attractive first softbound edition of this economic study, signed large and sloppy in full by Dale in black ballpoint on the dedication page. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with black calf label and green paper over boards. xv, 487pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this scarce and influential volume of Blake criticism, which did for interest in Blake what Raymond..... More
Albany: State University of New York Press, [1991]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards. xii, 219pp. Fine. Small ownership signature at top of front flyleaf. Pristine and perfect first edition of this study of (to cite rear board) "two new interpretations of the evidence regarding the metaphysical ideas of..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Edited by Joseph Ratner. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 1077pp. Illustrations. Good plus/good plus. Some discoloration to rear board; jacket quite edgeworn and rubbed, with spine sunned -- but complete and fairly attractive nonetheless. A tight and..... More