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Alexander, G.G.
Lao-Tsze: The Great Thinker.
Kegan Paul 1895 450g. Appendix, 131pp., covers sl. dull and worn else good. 8.00
Allen, E.L.
Existentialism from Within.
Routledge and Kegan Paul 1953 145mm. by 220mm., 500g. Index, 185pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, some underlining else good reading copy. 5.00
Anderson, Walter Truett (Ed.).
The Fontana Post-Modernism Reader.
Fontana. Notes, 255pp., card covers, corner of ffep. cut off else good. 5.00
Andreski, Stanislav.
Social Sciences as Sorcery.
Penguin Pelican 1974 249pp., card covers, ffep. sl. torn else good. 2.50
Appleton, George et al.
The Human Search with Teilhard De Chardin.
Fount Paperbacks 1979 100g. Biblio., 159pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Ardrey, Robert.
The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder.
Collins 1970 Illus., biblio., index, 405pp., some foxing else good in d/w. 8.00
Arendt, Hannah.
The Human Condition.
Univ. of Chicago Press 1971 rep. Index, 332pp., card covers, inscr., some underlining in pencil else good. 6.00
Aristotle.
A Treatise on Government.
Trans. by William Ellis.
Dent EML 1935 rep. 300g. Index, 264pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps/marks else good. 3.50
Aron, Raymond.
Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2: Pareto; Weber, Durkheim.
Pelican 1970 Trans. Index, 283pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Aune, Bruce.
Rationalism, Empiricism and Pragmatism.
Random House 1970 Index, 190pp., card covers, inscr., some underlining in pencil else good. 5.00
Avineri, Shlomo.
Hegel's Theory of the Modern State.
Cambridge U.P. 1974 Index, 252pp., card covers, good. 6.00
Ayer, A.J.
Language, Truth and Logic.
Penguin Pelican rep. Index, 206pp., card covers, a bit creased else good. 3.50
Barber, W.H. et al. (Ed.)
The Age of Enlightenment: Studies presented to Theodore
Besterman.
Oliver and Boyd for the Univ. of St. Andrews 1967 Frontis., index, 468pp., good in d/w. 12.00
Barber, William J.
A History of Economic Thought.
Penguin Pelican 1987 rep. Index, 266pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Barker, Ernest.
Greek Political Theory.
Plato and His Predecessors.
Methuen 1964 reprint. 468pp. Paperback. Condition: cover marked else good. 5.00
Barnes, Jonathan. (Ed.)
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle.
Cambridge UP.
Index, 404pp., ex-lib. copy in laminated card covers. Good working copy. 5.00
Berger, Peter L.; Luckmann, Thomas.
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge.
Anchor Books 1967 Index, 219pp., card covers, corner creased else good. 3.50
Berkeley, George.
Philosophical Works including the works on vision.
Intro. and notes by M.R. Ayers.
Dent 1980 Index, 358pp., card covers, sl. creased/marked, inscr. else good. 4.50
Berki, R.N.
The History of Politcal Thought: A Short Introduction.
Dent 1977 Index, 216pp., card covers, good. 6.00
Bird, Graham.
Philosophical Tasks: An Introduction to some Aims and Methods in Recent Philosophy.
Hutchinson University Lib. 1972
Biblo., index, 158pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, else good. 5.00
Blackham, H.J.
Six Existentialist Thinkers.
Routledge and Kegan Paul 1961 rep. 200g. Index, 179pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 4.00
Bloom, Allan (Ed.).
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel.
Basic Books 1969 287pp., last page scribbled else good in d/w. 7.00
Bottomore, T.B.; Rubel, M. (Ed.)
Karl Marx: Seclected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy.
Penguin 1979 rep. Index, 272pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 3.50
Burke.
Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Ed. by Conor Cruise O'Brien.
Pelican 1969 400pp., card covers, underliing in pencil, creased, inscr. 3.50
Burke. Select Works ed. and intro. by E.J. Payne. Vol. III.
Oxford 1926 REP. 500g. 384pp., covers sl. worn else good. 3.50
Carnap, Rudolf.
Introduction to Symbolic Logic and its Applications.
Dover rep. Index, 241pp., lacks tp., ex-lib. stamp, card covers; good working copy. 4.00
Caute, David (Ed.).
Essential Writings of Karl Marx.
Panther 1967 Index, 268pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 3.50
Chase, D.P. (Trans.)
The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.
Dent 1928 rep. 300g. 290pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 3.50
Collis, Maurice.
The First Holy One. (Confucius)
Faber 1968 Plates, index, 235pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good. 5.00
Cranston, Maurice; Peters, Richard S. (Ed.).
Hobbes and Rousseau: A Collection of Critical Essays.
Anchor 1972 502pp., card covers, inscr., underlining else good. 5.00
Dewey, John.
On Experience, Nature and Freedom.
The Liberal Arts Press 1960 Index, 293pp., card covers, inscr., spine creased. 4.00
Dilthey, Wilhelm.
Selected Works Volume V: Poetry and Experience.
Princeton UP. 1985 Ed. and intro. by R.A. Makkreel and F. Rodi. Index, 396pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Djilas, Milovan.
The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System.
Unwin Books 1966 190pp. Paperback. Condition: Worn, working copy. 2.50
Dodge, Guy H. (Ed.).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Authoritarian Libertarian.
D.C. Heath 1971 100pp., card covers, spine torn at bottom, inscr., underlining. 3.50
Frankena, William K.
Ethics.
Prentice-Hall 1973 2nd. ed. Index, 125pp., card covers, inscr., good. 3.50
Fromm, Erich.
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.
Holt, Rhinehart & Winston 1974 rep. Index, 521pp., good in torn d/w. 8.00
Fromm, E.; Xirau, R. (Ed. and intro.)
Problems of Philosophy Series.
The Nature of Man.
Collier MacMillan 1971 Biblio., 343pp., card covers, inscr., sp.
a bit worn, good working copy. 2.00
Gaarder, Jostein.
Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy.
Phoenix rep. Index, 456pp., card covers, sp. sl. creased else good. 3.50
Gardner, Howard.
The Quest For Mind: Piaget, Levi-Strauss and the
Structuralist Movement.
Coventure 1972 Notes, 276pp., index,
ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w.
7.00
Gerth, H.H.;. Mills, C. Wright.
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology.
Oxford U.P. 1958 Index, 490pp., card covers, inscr., some pencilled underlining. 5.00
Gombin, Richard.
The Radical Tradition: A Study in Modern Revolutionary Thought.
Methuen 1978 250g. Index, 152pp., card covers, fep. sl. marked else good. 3.50
Hamlyn, D.W.
The Theory of Knowledge.
MacMillan rep. 125mm. by 185pp., 400g. Index, 308pp., card covers, good. 6.00
Hart, H.L.A.
Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law.
Oxford UP. 1968 500g. Index, 271pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps/marks else good. 5.00
Heilbroner, Robert L.
The Worldly Philosophers.
Tim Inc. 1962 Index, 368pp., card covers, front cover sl. creased else good. 5.00
Held, David.
Introduction to Critical Theory: From Horkheimer to Habermas.
Hutchinson 1980 Notes, biblio., index, 511pp., card covers, inscr., sl. sunned else good. 7.00
Hick, John.
Evil and the God of Love.
Collins Fount 1979 rep. Index, 404pp., card covers, creased else good. 3.50
Hobbes, Thomas.
Leviathan.
Ed. and intro. by C.B. Macpherson.
Penguin 1985 rep. 728pp., card covers, corner creased else good. 5.00
Hodges, Wilfrid.
Logic: An Introduction to Elementary Logic.
Penguin rep. Index, 331pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Hunt, R.N. Carew.
The Theory and Practice of Communism.
Penguin 1968 rep. Index, 315pp., card covers, some underlining else good. 3.50
Huxley, T.H.
Evolution & Ethics and Other Essays. Collected Essays Vol. IX.
MacMillan 1903 125mm. by 185mm., 450g. 334pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 5.00
Ikeda, Daisaku.
Glass Children and other Essays.
Kodansha 1979 Trans. by Burton Watson.
172pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Jackson, Henry. (Comp.)
Texts to Illustrate a Course of Elementary Lectures on the History of Greek Philosophy from Thales to Aristotle.
MacMillan 1901 450g. 111pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 3.50
James, William.
A Pluralistic Universe. Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation of Philosophy.
NY: Longmans 1912 140mm. by 215mm., 600g. Index, 404pp., teg., paper title label, spine dull, ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 8.00
James, William.
Pragmatism and Other Essays.
Washington Square Press 1968 313pp., card covers, good. 4.50
James, William.
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking.
Longmans 1907 140mm. by 215mm., 600g. Index, 308pp., teg., paper title label, spine dull, ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 10.00
Jeans, Sir James.
Physics and Philosphy.
Cambridge 1942 300g. Index, 222pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 5.00
Joad, C.E.M.
Guide to Philosophy.
Gollancz 1936 550g. Index, 592pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 3.50
Jones, W.T.
Masters of Political Thought 2: Machiavelli to Bentham.
Harrap 1963 rep. Index, 388pp., card covers, sl. marked, inscr., else good. 5.00
Kant, Immanuel.
Critique of Pure Reason.
Trans. from the German by J.M.D. Meiklejohn.
Bohn's Philosophical Library. Bell 1878 120mm. by 190mm., 600g. 517pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps, sp. dull and sl. worn else good. 8.00
Kant, Immanuel.
Fundamental Principles of Metaphysic of Ethics.
Trans. by T.H. Abbott.
Longmans 1916 5th. ed. 125mm. by 185mm., 250g. 102pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, underlining and notes else good working copy. 5.00
Kateb, George (Ed.)
Utopia.
Atherton Press 1971 Index, 160pp., card covers, some underlining in pencil, spine sl. damaged else good. 5.00
Kaufmann, Walter (Ed.).
Hegel's Political Philosophy.
Atherton Press 1970 Index, 179pp., card covers, inscr., some underlining, cover creased. 5.00
King, Martin Luther.
The Trumpet of Conscience.
Hodder and Stoughton 1968 93pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Koch, Adrienne.
Philosophy for a Time of Crisis.
Dutton 1960 382pp. Paperback. Condition: slightly worn but good. 5.00
Krishnamurti.
The Second Penguin Krishnamurti Reader.
Ed. by Mary Lutyens.
Penguin 1976 rep. 200g. 317pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Laing, R.D.
The Divided Self: A study of sanity and madness.
Tavistock 1960 First edition. Index, 240pp., inscr., else good.
8.00
Lindsay, Jack.
The Crisis in Marxism.
Moonraker Press 1981 140mm. by 215mm., 550g. Index, 183pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Locke, John.
Locke on Politics, Religion and Education.
Ed. amd intro. by Maurice Cranston.
Collier Books 1965 286pp., card covers, inscr., some underlining else good. 3.50
Locke, John.
The Works: Vol.1 Philosophical Works.
Essay and notes by J.A. St. John.
Bohn 1854 600g. 541pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps, some wear to joints and sp., covers dull, else good reading copy. 7.00
Losee, John.
A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.
Oxford UP. 1972 Index, 218pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Lucretius.
On the Nature of the Universe.
Trans. and intro. by R.E. Latham.
Penguin Classics 1976 rep. 200g. Index, 264pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Lukács, Georg.
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics.
Merlin Press 1971 Index, 356pp., inscr., else good. 6.00
McCoy, Charles A.; Playford, John (Ed.).
Apolitical Politics: a critique of behavioralism.
Crowell 1967 246pp., inscr., covers worn, some underliing. 5.00
Magee, Bryan. (Pref.)
Men of Ideas.
BBC 1978 Plates, index, 312pp., inscr., else good in d/w. 8.00
Mannheim, Karl.
Ideology and Utopia.
Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960 Index, 318pp., card covers, inscr., spine creased, some pencilled underlining. 5.00
Marx, Karl.
Capital and other writings.
Ed. and intro. by Max Eastman.
NY: The Modern Library 1932 429pp., lacks ffep., covers dull else good. 3.50
Marx, Karl.
Wages, Price and Profit.
Peking 1973 rep. 130mm., by 185mm., 100g. 82pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Marx, Engels, Lenin.
The Essential Left: Four Classic Texts on the Principles of Socialsim.
Unwin Books 1962 254pp., sl.stained, inscr. else good. 3.50
Mészáros, István.
Marx's Theory of Alienation.
Merlin Press 1970 Biblio., index, 352pp., inscr. else good. 8.00
Nicholson, Shierry Weber.
Exact Imagination, Late Work On Adorno's Aesthetics.
MIT Press. Notes, biblio., index, 269pp., good in d/w. 12.00
Pattison, George.
Kierkegaard and the Crisis of Faith.
SPCK 200g. Index, 145pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Peters, F.H. (Trans.)
The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.
Kegan Paul 1884 130mm. by 195mm., 600g. 354pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 8.00
Popper, Karl R.
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.
RKP. 1972 rep. Index, 431pp., card covers, good. 10.00
Popper, Karl R.
The Poverty of Historicism.
Routledge and Kegan Paul 1957 First edition.
Index, 166pp., bkplate remains to fep., inscr. on tp. and some marginal notes else good. 8.00
Raison, Timothy (Ed.).
The Founding Fathers of Social Science.
Penguin 1969 238pp., inscr. else good. 3.50
Raphael, D.D.
Problems of Political Philosophy.
MacMillan 1970 Index, 207pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Reichel, Oswald J. (Trans.)
Socrates and The Socratic Schools by Dr. E. Zeller.
Longmans, Green and Co. 1877 2nd. ed. 130mm. by 195mm., 600g. Index, 408pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 10.00
Rogers, Ben.
A.J. Ayer: A Life.
Chatto and Windus. Plates, notes, index, 402pp., good in d/w. 10.00
Rorty, Amelie (Ed.).
Pragmatic Philosophy: An Anthology.
Anchor Books 1966 Biblio., 548pp., card covers, inscr., some underlining else good. 5.00
Ross, G. MacDonald.
Leibniz.
Oxford UP Past Masters 1984 100g. Index, 121pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Rousseau.
The Social Contract.
Trans. and intro. by Maurice Cranston.
Penguin Classics 1970 187pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 2.50
Ruitenbeek, Henfrik M.
Varieties of Classic Social Theory.
Dutton 1963 463pp., biblio., card covers, corner bumped else good. 5.00
Russell, Bertrand.
History of Western Philosophy.
Routledge rep. Index, 842pp., card covers, section sl. loose else good. 5.00
Salmon, Wesley C.
Logic.
Prentice-Hall Foundations of Philosophy Series 1973 2nd. ed. Index, 150pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 5.50
Scruton, Roger.
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy.
Duckworth Index, 168pp., inscr., corner of ffep. cut-off else good in d/w. 5.00
Sorrell, Tom.
Descartes.
Past Masters.
Oxford UP. 1987 Index, 120pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good reading copy. 2.00
Spencer, Herbert.
The Principles of Ethics.
Williams and Norgate 1904 and 1900 reps. 2vols. Combined weight 2100g. 572pp., 503pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 12.00
Stalin, Joseph.
Foundations of Leninism.
International Pub. 1939 127pp., inscr., some underlining, binding loose. 3.50
St. Augustine.
Confessions.
Trans. and intro by R.S. Pine-Coffin.
Penguin Classics rep. 200g. 346pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Stevenson, Leslie.
Seven Theories of Human Nature.
Oxford UP. 1977 rep. 125pp., card covers, corner of ffep. cut off else good. 3.50
The Thinker's Library
No. 2 Spencer, Herbert. Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical.
1929 Index, 183pp., good. 2.50
No. 3 Haeckel, Ernst. Trans. by Joseph McCabe. 1929 Glossary, 324pp., good. 3.00
No. 5 Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. 1929 144pp., good. 3.50
No. 6 Wells, H.G. A Short History of the World. 1929 310pp., good. 3.50
No. 8 Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. 1929 Index, 434pp., good. 3.50
No. 9 McCabe, Joseph. Twelve Years in a Monastery. 3rd. rev. ed. 1930 259pp., good. 3.50
No.10 Benn, A.W. History of Modern Philosophy. 1930 Index, 150pp., good. 3.50
No.11 Gibbon. On Christianity: Being the 15th and 16th chapters of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Trans. by J.M. Robertson. 1930 135pp., good. 3.00
No.12 Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Part 1 and the concluding chapter of part 3. 1930 244pp., good. 3.00
No.13 Buckle, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England. Vol.1 1930 242pp., good. 2.00
No.14 Tylor, Edward B. Anthropology. Vol.1 1930 Illus., 180pp., good. 3.00
No.15 Tylor, Edward B. Anthropology. Vol 2 1930 Illus., index, 166pp., good. 3.00
No.16 Euripides. Iphigenia: Two Plays. English by C.B. Bonner. 1930 118pp., good. 3.50
No.17 Huxley, Thomas Henry. Lectures and Essays. 1931 232pp., good. 3.50
No.18 Allen, Grant. The Evolution of the Idea of God. 1931 308pp., good. 2.50
No.19 Stephen, Leslie. An Agnostic's Apology and other essays. 1931 231pp., good. 3.00
No.20 Phelips, Vivian. The Churches and Modern Thought. 1931 Index, 306pp., good. 3.00
No.21 France, Anatole. Penguin Island. Trans. by A.W. Evans. 1931 235pp., good. 3.00
No.22 Powys, Llewelyn. The Pathetic Fallacy: A Study of Christianity.
1931 115pp., good. 2.50
No.27 Tuckett, Ivor LL. The Evidence for the Supernatural. 1931 Index, 146pp., good. 3.00
Talmon, J.L.
The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy.
Sphere 1970 Index, 355pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 5.00
Taton, R.
Reason and Chance in Scientific Discovery.
Trans. by A.J. Pomerans.
Hutchinson 1959 rep. Index, 171pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good. 5.00
Tse-Tung, Mao.
Four Essays on Philosophy.
Peking 1968 rep. 135pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Tucker, Robert.
Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx.
Cambridge U.P. 1971 rep. Index, 263pp., card covers, good. 6.00
Tudor, Andrew.
Beyond Empiricism: Philosophy of Science in Sociology.
Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982 Index, 211pp., card covers, inscr. else good. 5.00
Ullmann, Walter.
A History of Political Thought: The Middle Ages.
Pelican 1970 rep. Index, 253pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 3.50
Wallace, Edwin. (Comp.)
Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle.
Cambridge UP. 1885 3rd. ed. 200g. Index, 130pp., ex-lib. copy with some stamps else good. 3.50
Ward, Mrs. Humphrey.
Amiel's Journal.
The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel. Vol II.
MacMillan 1885 600g. Index, 355pp., ex-lib. copy with a few stamps else good. 5.00
Watson, John.
An Outline of Philosophy with Notes Historical and Critical.
MacLehose 1901 3rd. ed. 130mm. by 200mm., 600g. Index of authors, 489pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, tp. taped at joint else good reading copy. 6.00
Watts, Alan.
Nature, Man & Woman.
Abacus 1976 Biblio., 159pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 3.00
Weber, Max.
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization.
Ed. by Talcott Parsons.
Free Press 1964 Index, 436pp., card covers, inscr., some underlinig in pencil else good. 7.00
Welldon, J.E.C. (Trans. and notes)
The Politics of Aristotle.
MacMillan 1885 130mm. by 200mm., 750g. 407pp., blue cloth, dull and worn, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good reading copy. 8.00
Welldon, J.E.C. (Trans. and notes)
The Rhetoric of Aristotle.
MacMillan 1886 130mm. by 200mm., 550g. Index, 306pp.,
ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good reading copy. 8.00
Wolff, Robert Paul.
The Poverty of Liberalism.
Beacon Press 1970 Index, 200pp., card covers, inscr., some underlining in pencil else good. 5.00