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
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press (1963), 1963. Third printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xii, [2], 326, [4] pp. Blue cloth with blue lettering on the front board and spine. An exploration of how moral statements contain subtle facts about reality. A Near Fine book with a name on the front..... 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
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 green calf over marbled boards with the spine in five compartments, gilt decorations and a maroon morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges sprinkled. Later..... More
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers, 1891. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xx, 1-436, 12 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown blindstamped publisher's cloth with gold lettering and rules on the spine. Uncoated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several in-text engravings (black and..... More
[New York]: Westview Press [1998], 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 3-251, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Part of the Dimensions of Philosophy series. A book that asks the basic questions in ethics. Some pencil underlining to the pageblock; jacket with light edge..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-432, [2] pp. Contemporary polished sheep with a gilt border on each board, spine in five compartments with gilt rules and a black paper label lettered in gilt; 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
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: 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
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, 1-393, [3] pp. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. First printing of the first edition. This is Gewirth's best-known work, in which he attempts to provide a rational foundation for ethics; in..... 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
Berkeley: Universiy of California Press, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], x, [1], 2-109,5[7] pp. Bound in textured red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A handsome copy of this collection of nearly all of Hare's early papers on moral concepts. Name written on title page else Fine..... More
New York: The Viking Press (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 3-242, [2] pp. Orange cloth with purple lettering and two gold decorations on the spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A moving biography of the American-Israeli philosopher. A tiny closed..... More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1840. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xxii, [3], 4-324, [2]; [7], viii, [3], 4-358, [2] pp. Half late nineteenth-century calf over marbled boards with the spines in six compartments, a red and a brown morocco label lettered in gilt on each spine..... More
New York: The Modern Library [1960], 1960. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-l, [2], 3-690 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $1.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Edited with an introduction by..... More
Leipzig: Leopold Voss, 1867; 1868. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xix, [4], 4-487; [3], iv-xvi, [3], 4-464, [2]; [3], iv-xv, [4], 4-619, [3]; [3], iv-xii, [3], 4-507, [3]; [3], iv-xv, [4], 4-500, [2]; [3], iv-xii, [3], 4-498, [4]; [3], iv-xvi, [3], 4-663, [3]; [3], iv-xviii, [3], 4-821..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [3], 2-225, [1] pp. Navy cloth with copper lettering on the spine. Price of 45s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. SEP, "Promises". Slater 581. Lyons' first book: here the classic objection to rule utilitarianism..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009. Third printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-250, [10] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. An important installation in the literature of Just-War Theory. McMahan argues that the permissibility of killing in war remains the same as killing in the name of self-defence..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-250, [10] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. An important installation in the literature of Just-War Theory. McMahan argues that the permissibility of killing in war remains the same as killing in the name of self-defence..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [9], 2-263, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A comprehensive overview on human rights and moral personhood. Melden also explores the rights conferred by promises and the rights that special moral persons like..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [4], 1-331, [1], i-xix, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Title page done in black and pink. A survey of ethical systems and principles proposed throughout history, from various world civilizations. A..... More