New York: E.P. Dutton [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-126, [6] pp. Light blue cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Textured endpapers and pastedowns. With several full-page illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. Inscribed by Alexander to dear..... More
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [9], ii-xxix, [4], 2-310, [5], iv-clxxix, [1] pp. Recent full brown morocco with the spine in five compartments, a silver border and gilt lettering on the spine; all edges marbled. Recent marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece (a fold-out map)..... More
London: J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [15], 2-231, [1] pp. Later full calf. Wing W1139. Quite difficult to find in commerce, this is the first edition of Watson's commentary on Malachy, the final book of the Old Testament. Notable rubbing to the extremities resulting..... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [4], 2-400 pp. Blue publisher's cloth with decorations in blind on each board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. A fold-out chart in the rear of the volume. Arctic Bibliography 14501. University..... More
Paris: L. Conquet / G. Charpentier, 1883. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, 1-347, [2]; [4], 1-373, [3] pp. Later three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, beautiful red, green, white, and yellow decorations on the spines (a coat of arms, crossed swords, and roses), spines lettered in gilt..... More
New York: William B. Gilley / William A. Mercein, 1818. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], ii-lxxxi, [4], 86-410, [6] pp. Recent half textured green silk cloth over marbled paper boards with a black morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Later endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding..... More
Tokyo: Heibonsha Limited (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [unpaginated color plates], 182-281, [3] pp. Black cloth with a decoration in blind and gold lettering on the front board, gold and blind lettering on the spine. Lime green endpapers and pastedowns. Housed in a red-linen folding box, with gold and..... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 4-296, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with a few borders and decorations in blind on the boards, a recent brown morocco label with gold lettering on the spine. Publisher's ads printed on the endpapers and pastedowns. National Women's History..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins (1969), 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-256 pp. Red paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Maps printed on the endpapers and pastedowns. Publisher's price sticker of £2.25 on the front flap of the dust jacket (the original price clipped away). Jacket design by A.E...... More
New York: The Viking Press (1939), 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-619, [3] pp. Publisher's buckram with decorations in brown on the boards and spine, brown lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns printed with a section of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Price of..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1875. Second edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. 8vo. For full pagination, please inquire. Publisher's green cloth with a border in blind on each board, gilt lettering, four gilt rules, and the publisher's device in gilt on each spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Kunitz 337-338. Benjamin..... More
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii, [7], 3-564 pp. Quarter blue cloth over grey cloth with purple lettering and a purple border on the spine. Tan endpapers and pastedowns. A collection of Mayr's writings on evolutionary theory and its intersection with..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-xe, 1-232e, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 37s. 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams (some of which are in color). Translated by G. E. M...... More
Dordrecht-Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 1-366, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and the publisher's device in gold on the spine. Two publisher's postcards laid in. With essays from Strawson, Geach, Davidson, Chomsky, Grice, several other philosophers, and with replies..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 3-229, [3] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Nagel remains a leading contemporary philosopher, teaching at NYU. This volume contains several of his essays in the philosophy of mind, with writings on ethics and..... More
[London]: Bloomsbury (1997), 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-223, [1] pp. Perfect-bound in pictorial boards: red, blue, yellow, white, and black decorations and blocking with yellow, white, black, and green lettering. The front board's illustration done by Thomas Taylor. Price of £10.99 on the rear board. With the full..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1990), 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-380, [8] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. With essays from Michael Dummett, J.A. Fodor, Lawrence Sklar, Hartry Field, Martha Nussbaum, Ruth Anna Putnam, George Boolos, and others. A touch of foxing to the..... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1972], 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-245, [3] pp. Red cloth with a black decoration on the front board, silver lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Allen. Part of The World..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xvii, [1], 1-255, [3] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Part of the Arguments of the Philosophers series, edited by Ted Honderich. Written and compiled by a premier Descartes scholar. Princeton Department of Philosophy, "Margaret..... More
London: George Keith, 1761. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 17.5 c.m. x 10.5 c.m. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-94, [1], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Contemporary sheep with twin gilt rules on each board, spine in six compartments. Illustrated with four copper-engraved plates. Completing the title page: "Wherein is contained great..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton [1981] [1982] [1984], 1981; 1982; 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [10], 3-184; [12], 3-244, [2]; [12], 3-237, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over orange paper boards with black lettering on the spine; quarter brown cloth over green paper boards with black lettering on the..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1965], 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [1], 2-365, [5] pp. Olive green cloth with International Series in Pure and Applied Physics in blind on the front board, gilt rules and gold lettering on the spine blocked in green. Price of $12.50 on the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 7-309, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Adapted into an Academy Award winning film by the Coen brothers. A lovely..... More
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 15-506, [6] pp. Glossy black boards with a decoration in blind on the front board, white lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several full-page..... More
New York: Dutton Children's Books [1997], 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 3-283, [5] pp. Half teal cloth over gold paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $16.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by the author on the free front..... More