![Item #000017007 The Burden of Our Time [The Origins of Totalitarianism]. Hannah Arendt](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000017007.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779395845)
London: Secker & Warburg (1951), 1951. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [4], 4-477, [3] pp. Blue cloth with black lettering and two black rules on the spine. Price of 30s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Arendt's magnum opus, a brilliant treatise in political philosophy..... More
Columbus, Ohio: J. & H. Miller, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-xvi, [1], 18-832, [4] pp. Full contemporary black sheep with decorations stamped in blind on the boards, gold lettering and gold decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 2-613, [3] pp. Orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $29.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Richard Nice. A landmark text in sociology examining class differences through the lens..... More
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (2020), 2020. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 3-245, [17] pp. Black paper over boards with copper lettering and decorations on the front board, copper decorations on the spine. Endpapers with brown decorations. Price of $27.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii, [3], 1-140, [2] pp. Quarter white cloth over yellow paper boards printed in black, black lettering on the spine. Price of $1.25 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. BAL 3527. A literary and political..... More
New York: Viking (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-326 pp. Quarter white cloth over grey paper over boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Signed by the author on the title page..... More
New York: Random House Publishers, ca. 1955. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-xx, [2], 3-680, [2] pp. Grey cloth with black and gold lettering blocked in black on the spine; blue topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Schwartz. Illustrated with..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press [1978], 1978. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xiv, [3], 2-207, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Slater 337. A collection of essays spanning twenty years of Foot's work. The first section contains her work on abortion, euthanasia, Hume's moral philosophy..... More
London: Hutchinson (1986), 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-351, [1] pp. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. '£7.95 net in UK only' printed on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by Gary Chalk (in-text designs and a full-page map), jacket illustration by Pete Lyon..... More
New York: Grove Press (2021), 2021. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [12], 1-118 pp. Quarter green cloth over white paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $20 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Gretchen Mergenthaler. Preceded by..... More
London: Watts & Co., 1880. Third edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 8-72 pp. Blue publisher's cloth with decorations in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the front board, a yellow paper label printed in black on the spine. Edited by Thalassoplektos. First published in 1873 under..... More
New York: Bloomsbury (2015), 2015. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-419, [3] pp. Black paper over boards with silver lettering and a silver decoration on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $18.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Katie Everson. Two full-page..... More
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [13], 2-460, [8] pp. Maroon cloth with a large decoration in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated purple and tan endpapers and pastedowns. With a frontispiece, eight plates with several images in..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 4-191, [5] pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Jacket design by Gwen Frankfeldt. McDowell explores the ideas of several philosophers as he attempts to establish a new framework for understanding the human mind and..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xiv, [2], 3-333, [5] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with 12 double-sided plates of..... More
Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe (1986), 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-189, [3] pp. Navy paper-covered boards with green lettering on the spine. Contains the correct gutter code and the correct code on the bottom of the dust jacket's rear panel. Dust jacket art done by Josh Kirby. The..... More
New York: Random House [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [11], 4-1168, [8] pp. Blue-green cloth with the author's initials in gold on the front board, gold lettering blocked in black on the spine; blue topstain. Tan endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.95 and date code of 10/57 on..... More
New York: Pathfinder Press (1976), 1976. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 21.5 cm x 14 cm. [2], 3-15, [1] pp. Black and white wrappers printed in green, white, and black, staple-bound. Price of $.25 on the front wrapper. With two in-text photographs in black and white. With contributions by Linda Jenness..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [15], 2-365, [5] pp. Quarter white cloth over light blue cloth with a blue design on the front board, blue lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust..... More
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book (2006), 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [15], 16-541, [3] pp. Navy cloth with red lettering and red rules on the spine. Price of $27.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket art by Jon Foster. A few full-page and in-text illustrations..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xiv, [3], 2-317, [3] pp. Quarter white cloth over cream colored paper over boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Illustrated with..... More
New York: New Directions (1978), 1978. First New Directions edition / First hardcover edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [2], 3-54, [2] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of the jacket. First state with Snyder spelled incorrectly on both the..... More
Santa Barbara, California: Neville, 1991. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [8], vii, [3], 3-38, [6] pp. Red cloth with a gold decoration on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. An emblem in grey on each endpaper. Title page printed in grey, red, and black. A few in-text red..... More