New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1965], 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 658 pp. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. de Beauvoir's third installation in her autobiography, exploring her experience as a middle-class woman in early twentieth century France as... More about Force of Circumstance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 9-153, [7] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a foreword by C.P. Snow. Hardy's personal essay on what mathematics means to him, and why it... More about A Mathematician's Apology
London: George Allen & Unwin LTD (1962), 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-xvii, [3], 3-411, [3] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine, red topstain. Allen and Unwin's price sticker of 70s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket, covering the original publisher's price. Edited... More about Commonplace Book; 1919-1953
London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. 567 pp. Price of 42s. on front flap of jacket. With an introduction by Professor F.A. Hayek. Age toning to textblock, slight lean to binding; yellowing to front and spine panel of jacket, traces of chipping. More about The Life of John Stuart Mill
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1882. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 5 volumes: 414 pp.; 422 pp.; 452 pp.; 570 pp.; 618 pp. Bound in orange-red cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A.H. Clough. Includes an index. A beautiful set. A... More about Plutarch's Lives; The Translation Called Dryden's
Philadelphia: Gebbie and Company, 1904. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 4 volumes,176 pp.; 201 pp. 304 pp.; 238 pp. Half-bound in smooth, rich brown calf with marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns and marbled paper covering the boards. The spine of each volume is lettered and decorated with gilt, top edges gilt... More about The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
New York: Simon And Schuster, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 339 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. The final volume of Russell's autobiography. Near Fine book with some toning to the textblock in a very near Fine dust jacket. More about The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell; 1944 - 1969
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. First printing. Hardcover. 262 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Two newspaper articles (from 1944 and 1948) laid in. Very Good book with offsetting to pages 136-137 and 182-183 in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket with a few hints of rubbing to rear panel. More about Persons and Places; The Background of My Life