Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982. Later printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v-xxxiii, [3], 3-649, [1], 1-8 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. With an English translation by H. Rackham. Text in ancient Greek and in English. Number 73..... More
London: Walter Scott, LTD., n.d. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xxvi, [3], 2-333, [1], [18] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, gold decorations on the front board; top edge gilt. With an introductory essay by George Henry Lewes. Translated..... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xxii, [3], 4-326, [4] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket toned with a few tiny chips. More
New York: Pantheon Books [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xviii, [2], 3-332, [2] pp. Quarter beige cloth over dark grey paper boards with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A treatise on the ethics of..... More
New York: Cambridge University Press (1989), 1989. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xii, 1-340 pp. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Brink is one of the "Cornell realists" and in this book he explores a number of issues in the foundations of ethics including the..... More
New York: Tudor Publishing Company [1959], 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-xii, [2], 3-866, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board, gold lettering blocked in black on the spine; green topstain. Part of The Library of Living Philosophers series. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1983), 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-361, [7] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. The first examination of Lucretius' famous work, De Rerum Natura, in comparison with Epicurean philosophy. Epicurean philosophy and physics was a...... More
Edinburgh: John Anderson, 1828. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], viii-xii, [1], 2-319, [2], 2-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Later half sheep, polished and dyed green over marbled boards with the spine in five compartments, gold decorations and a maroon morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all..... More
[New York]: Viking [2003], 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], viii-xiii, [3], 1-347, [3] pp. Quarter dark blue paper over light blue paper boards. Price of $24.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. In-text diagrams in black and white throughout. Light wear to the boards' and jacket's edges..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xix, [1], 1-271, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Publisher's ads on the rear endpaper and pastedown. Price of £15.00 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Part of the International Library..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxii, 1-275, [7] pp. Quarter white cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Purple endpapers and pastedowns. Edited by J.E. Malpas. With a foreword by Stephen Toulmin. One of two volumes published, this..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xvi, [1], 2-278, [2] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Slater 256. An attractive copy of Donagan's best-known work in which he develops and defends a view of morality by..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xi, [4], 2-506, [6] pp. Quarter grey cloth over purple paper boards with white lettering on the spine. Purple endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $35.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-273, [5] pp. Quarter white cloth over cream paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-432, [2] pp. Contemporary polished sheep with a gold border on each board, spine in five compartments with gold rules and a black paper label lettered in gold; all edges sprinkled red. With a preface by the Rev..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xx, 1-298 pp. Blue publisher's cloth with a gold border and gold lettering on the front board, rubbed lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with five plates of black and white photographs. Foreword by H.R.H...... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-125, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few in-text reproductions of ancient coins. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Philippa Foot". Foot's theory of moral philosophy, with a special emphasis on the relation between virtue and..... 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [6], 2-176 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £9.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The antithesis of Singer's Animal Liberation: an argument that animals possess no moral rights due to what the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 3-239, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay Smith. Slater 340. Gert's first book, a work that..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxx, [4], 3-317 pp., [3]. Bound in black cloth with orange lettering on the spine. Gert was best known for his work in moral philosophy and he published numerous revised editions of his work focused upon presenting and defending..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [4], 3-346, [2] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Jacket design by Joyce C. Weston. A nice copy of this book in which Gibbard develops and defends his "norm-expressivistic analysis" of rationality which serves as..... More
London: Routledge (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [1], 1-224, [6] pp. Red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Contemporary bookstore price stamp on the free front endpaper ($35.00). Part of The Problems of Philosophy: Their Past and Present series, edited by Ted Honderich. An address..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [3], 1-208 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket (the British price has been clipped for sale in the U.S.). An ethical theory that attempts..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 1-370, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and a publisher's device in gold on the spine. Price of 50s. net U.K. only on the front flap of the dust jacket. Hardie's work in this volume makes..... More