Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition in English, octavo size, 199 pp. "In 'Homo Sacer', Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics...'" (n.b., from jacket flap). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full navy blue..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 333 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "Erich Auerbach (1892-1957)...a prophet of global literary studies [and] best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, [here] presents a wide selection of essays, many of which are little known outside..... More
n.p. Editions du Seuil, 1993-1995. Wraps. Three volumes (complete), largo octavo size, approx. 4700 pp., softcovers in half-slipcases, entirely in French. Roland Gérard Barthes (1915-1980) "was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from..... More
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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1949. Rogers, Bruce. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, the Bible one of 975 copies, elephant folio size, [942] pp., [and] Making of the Bible number 178 of 1875 copies, quarto size, [41] pp. The second folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1919. Gill, Eric. First Edition. Wraps. Twenty-fourmo size, 28 pp. The Saint Dominic's Press, founded by Harry (Hilary) Douglas Clarke Pepler, flourished at Ditchling, Sussex, from 1916 to 1936. The first home of the Press was "a disused stable", with a hundred-year-old Stanhope hand-press which..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, [1924]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 190 copies, folio size, [5] leaves. "The Sermon on the Mount" is among the most widely quoted texts of the Canonical Gospels, most notably the Beatitudes, which exemplify the quintessential elements of mercy and compassion as taught by Jesus Christ..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1996. Mazur, Michael. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 16 1/4" by 11 1/2", 102 pages. The pagination follows the Hebrew convention, reading right to left, as do the lines of Hebrew. The type for the Hebrew is Hadassah, set in photocomposition through the good offices of..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. Dine, Jim. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 14 7/8" by 11 inches, 64 unnumbered pages. The type is Garamond Bold, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie-Harris, with 14 point for the words ascribed to St. John and 18 point for words ascribed to God and the..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. Dine, Jim. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 14 7/8" by 11 inches, 64 unnumbered pages. The type is Garamond Bold, in Monotype composition by Mackenzie-Harris, with 14 point for the words ascribed to St. John and 18 point for words ascribed to God and the..... More
Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 234 pp., in French. The biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, two women who leave the land of Moab to return to Naomi's native land of Bethlehem, is a story of love, devotion, and loyalty; it is a story of strength..... More
(Oxford): (Oxford University Press), (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the OUP publication, four volumes (complete), large octavo size, total of approximately 2000 pp. One could spend a lifetime studying the life and work of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848). An ordained Catholic priest as well as a scholar, philosopher and..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, (1966). Hardcover. Octavo size, 591 pp. Originally published in 1893, this work was reprinted by the OUP fifteen times up through 1966, the year of this volume. A highly influential work, Bradley argues that what we see is not true reality, expanding on that idea..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 254 pp. Per the jacket flap, this work "is a vibrant and powerful contribution to the recently renewed debate over natural rights and natural rights language." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full textured black paper over boards, silver lettering and..... More
Torino: Zecchi e Bona, 1850. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 176 pp., text in Italian. Text in Italian, with some Latin quotes scattered throughout. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan leather with marbled paper boards, gilt lettering and decorations direct to spine, text block edges appear to have been stained at some point, now faded..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Octavo size, 346 pp. Per Wikipedia, "Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St John Sprigg (20 October 1907 – 13 February 1937), a British Marxist writer, literary critic, intellectual and activist..published The Crisis of Physics in 1936... According to Marxist historian Helena Sheehan..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large octavo size, 228 pp. "For Derrida, the problem of genesis in Husserl's philosophy is that both temporality and meaning must be generated by prior acts of the transcendental subject...[b]ut the book is most important in allowoing us..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, first printing, large octavo size, 345 pp. From the jacket flap: "No one has figured more prominently in the study of German philosopher Gottlob Frege than Michael Dummett...Frege (1848-1925) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher whose work had enormous..... More
San Francisco: Printed for The Book Club of California by John Henry Nash, 1921. Nash, John Henry. Limited Edition. No binding. Single leaf folded once to make [4] pp. A lovely broadside printed by the San Francisco printer extraodinaire, John Henry Nash (1871-1947) with his characteristic mitred ruled border, this..... More
Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 183 pp. An original essay by Professor Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018), whose work focused on issues of "issues in philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, law, and Chinese philosophy" (n.b., quote from Wiki). Professor Fingarette's essay is..... More
Eerdmans, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large quarto size, 1750 pp., three volumes in slipcase. From the web site of the publisher: "More than 400 distinguished scholars, including archaeologists, art historians, historians, epigraphers, and theologians, have written the 1,455 entries in this monumental encyclopedia - the first comprehensive reference..... More
Ditchling Common, Sussex: Saint Dominic's Press, 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies on hand-made paper, duodecimo size, 40 pp. "Fr. Noble's essay is both for the guidance of a would-be postulant to the [Dominican] Lay-Brotherhood and for the encouragement of one who has discovered his vocation" (n.b., from..... More
Ditchling, Sussex: Pepler and Sewell, St Dominic's Press, 1934. Hagreen, Philip. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, sixteen unpaginated leaves. The text of a lecture given in London by Fr. McNabb to the Catholic Poetry Society. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown quarter-cloth over green paper covered..... More
Westminster John Knox Press, 2016. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), large octavo size, 1192 pp. From the web site of the publisher: " 'Christian Faith' is one of the most important works of Christian theology ever written. The author, known as the “father of theological liberalism,” correlates the entirety of Christian..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 188 pp. From the jacket flap: "This book examines the central questions concerning the duty to obey the law: the meaning of this duty; whether and where it should be acknowledged; and whether and when it should be..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 351 pp. From the jacket flap: "Employing different understandings of the concept of truth as investigative tools, the author depicts varying theological responses to the growth of natural science in the nineteenth century..." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full grey..... More