(Chicago): The University of Chicago Press, (1959). 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Octavo size, 339 pp. From the dust jacket flap: " 'It is quite conceivable that the modern age, which began with such an unprededented and promising outburst of human activity, may end in the deadliest, most sterile passivity history has..... More
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1996). First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition, octavo size, 493 pp. From the dust jacket flap: "The record of a great love affair and a lifelong conversation - a love and a marriage that were the 'safe haven' for two hunted fugitives in dark times." (Quote..... More
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Munich and Zurich: Piper, (1985). Hardcover. Octavo size, 864 pp., note that all text is in German. From the dust jacket flap: "Die Korrespondenz zwischen Hannah Arendt und Karl Jaspers - es sind an die 420 Briefe erhalten - wird in dieser Ausgabe vollständig abgedruckt und durch einige Briefe ihrer..... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 390 pp., from the library of the Science Hill School. Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-1878) , the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was an outspoken educator and writer, and advocated for equal access to education for women. She..... 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
(New Brunswick): (Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking), (1993). Feldman, Walter. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. No. 7 of 18, folio size, seven unbound folio sheets, signed by Walter Feldman. Walter Sidney Feldman (1925-2017) received numerous awards and critical praise spanning a lifetime achievement over seven decades; his paintings were..... More
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n.p. Hendrickson Publishers, 2005-2007. Second Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), octavo size, approx. 2950 total pp. From the preface: "...Bible students around the world have found this work to be a valuable resource for gaining insight into the original languages of Scripture...." ___DESCRIPTION: Four volumes (complete) bound uniformly in tan..... 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
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
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 740 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "The Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 2nd impression (printing), octavo size, 620 pp. From Oxford University Press, "Written by an internationally renowned Bach scholar; Explores Bach's interaction of the special character of John's gospel; First work to look at the St. John Passion and the Cantatas for spring..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (1979). Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 1187 pp. From the jacket flap, "Danker is the Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor Emeritus of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, Illinois...[his Lexicon is] an invaluable reference work and a tool indispensable for the study of..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 473 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "This is a study of Hegel’s intellectual development up to the writing of 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' in 1807. It argues that his thought is best approached contextually, in terms of..... 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
(Kentfield, California): The Allen Press, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, 90 pp., with prospectus. Although Gustave Flaubert’s (1821-1880) best known work may be "Madame Bovary", he had a deep interest in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", spending thirty years in research and working countless revisions..... More
London: James Clarke & Co. Ltd., 1939. Gill, Eric. Wraps. A small book by the inimitable printmaker and typographer Eric Gill (1882-1940), in which he makes a case for socialism and social justice through the lens of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; each stage of his crucifixion is examined and..... 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
Cambridge: At the University Press [Cambridge University Press], 1967. Hardcover. Six volumes (complete), large octavo size, approx. 3300 total pp. William Keith Chambers Guthrie (1906-1981) was a classical scholar whose proficiency in Latin was such that he was "called upon to deliver Latin encomia in honour of such dignitaries as..... More
[New Delhi]: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives [Associated Publishing House], 1975. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Octavo size, 133 pp. First volume of the periodical "The Tibet Journal"; "an occasional publication of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, devoted to the presentation of scholarly and general interest articles on..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition, first printing, large octavo size, 846 pp. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is known as one of the "most influential political theorists of the 20th century"; Karl Jaspers (1883-1969), a psychiatrist and philosopher, is "often viewed as a major exponent..... More
London: The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd. [printed by The Whitefriars Press, Ltd.], (1928). Stabler, Phoebe. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 52 pp., with dust jacket, inscribed by Geoffrey Hodson. Geoffrey Hodson (1886-1983) was a prolific author of metaphysical and Theosophical writings. He authored about 50 books and more than 200..... More