New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-300, [8] pp. Quarter teal cloth over red paper boards with black lettering on the front board and spine, red decorations on the spine; black topstain. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Boyle's novel..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Later printing. Hardcover. Small 4to. [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [4], 3-77, [5] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, purple decorations stamped on the front board, textblock decoratively stained red. A Very Good book with a two small..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xiv, [3], 4-446, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with maps and several black and white photographs. A history..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], x, [5], 4-158, [4] pp. Bound in black cloth with purple lettering on the spine. Price of $18.50 on front flap of dust jacket. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 3-528 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; pictorial slipcase with illustrations in blue. Illustrated profusely with black and white photographs, maps, drawings, color plates, and facsimiles. The history begins with literature in Old and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 216, [4] pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Selected passages from R.L. Stevenson's writings. Gift inscription on the front flyleaf, small price stamp on the rear pastedown. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-528, [2]; [3], iv-x, [1], 2-483, [3] pp. Original green publisher's cloth with gold lettering and decorations in red, gold, silver, and brown on the front board and spine. Illustrated by an engraved frontispiece..... More
Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [5], vi-xxxv, [4], 2-349, [1], [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece and forty-nine additional plates. Illustrations depict scenes from the Ivory Coast and..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [7], x-xv, [2], 2-288, [4] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with black lettering and decorations in gold on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece of Nicholas Ball, nine full-page illustrations, and seven plates. Illustrations depict Santa Fe, Pueblo..... More
London: John Baskett, 1716. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Book of Common Prayer unpaginated, Psalter pagination as follows: [3], 4-237, [7] pp. Contemporary fine-grain red morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt tooling on the boards and spine, early marbled endpapers and pastedowns; all edges gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece of King..... More
Lund [Sweden]: Carl Gustav Berling, 1749. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 8 cm x 14 cm. [17], 2-170, [6] pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards, binding is early nineteenth century. Title page with publisher's device, first page of text with a woodcut headpiece. Text in Swedish. The margins of some leaves..... More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (1981), 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [5], 1-343, [11] pp. Bound in ivory cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Slater 313. Fodor was one of the leading philosophers of mind over the course of his long career. This book is a collection..... More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press [1990], 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 4-270, [6] pp. Bound in dark grey cloth with white lettering on the spine. Slater 313. A very attractive copy of this collection of important essays by one of the leading philosophers of mind from the..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [2], 3-187, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. One gathering (four leaves) bound upside down. Following in the footsteps of Peter Singer's landmark essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", Unger examines a number..... More
London: William Pickering, Chancery Lane, 1828. First edition thus. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [5] viii-xv, [3], iv-vi, [3], 4-56, [3], ii-vi, [3], 4-110, [3], iv-viii, [3], 4-62, [5], iv, [3], 4-44, [2]; [7], iv-xii, [3], 4-44, [3], ii-xix, [4], 4-53, [4], iv-xx, [1], 2-57, [8], 6-77, [4], ii-viii, [5], 84-133..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 10" x 7". Unpaginated. Pictorial publisher's binding: textured gold cloth with maroon and silver decorations on the front board, maroon lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Chromolithograph title-page with fifteen additional chromolithographs throughout the book. Two chromolithographs have..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-153, [3] pp. Grey cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Association copy, inscribed by Yaqub to Ellery Eells, a former Professor of Philosophy at UW-Madison ("For Ellery, Thank you for your help and advice. Aladdin 27 March 1993)..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1808. Second edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-256 pp. Nineteenth-century three-quarter green leather over marbled boards (binding ca. 1835). DeMorgan 90 (DeMorgan's speculation that 1816 is the first edition is incorrect). Contemporary owner has tipped in leaves with their hand-written calculations and notes, one of which..... More
Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xviii, [1], 20-591, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Three-quarter leather over textured brown cloth, spine in six compartments with gold lettering, decorative textblock and marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Fully illustrated by eminent artists: with two frontispieces, six plates..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [3], 2-133, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Scheffler is a well-known moral philosopher. This book evolved out of his dissertation, and involves a careful examination of the rejection of consequentialist moral theories. Scheffler notably develops..... More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xviii, [3], 4-560 pp. Navy cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, later endpapers and pastedowns with the original front flyleaf present. Gilt decoration of a ship on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a...... More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xii, [2], 3-407 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on front flap. Collected by August Derleth. Joshi 1999, 102. A very handsome copy, difficult to find in such fine condition. A Fine book..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press [1990], 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 299, [3] pp. Blue-grey cloth with blue and silver lettering on the spine. Here van Inwagen argues that the only material objects that can be said to "exist" are living organisms and "simples" or objects that have..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 2-365, [3] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Born and raised in Iowa, the author was a World War I veteran who traveled..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 260, [1], xii-xiv, [4] pp. Yellow cloth with green lettering on the spine, silver decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. From the rear panel: "Exhausted by wars..... More