Philosophy
Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning
Dordrecht, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. 322 pp. Blue boards stamped in gray. No dust jacket. Light dust soiling and rubbing to boards and binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. Very Good. More
Historical Destiny and National Socialism in Heidegger's Being and Time
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. 356 pp. Printed dust jacket. Dark gray boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket lightly shelfworn with some general rubbing. Boards lightly dust soiled along top edge and binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but..... More
Die Grenzen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung. Eine logische Einleitung in die historischen Wissenschaften
Tübingen: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1902. First Edition. Octavo; mid-century card wrappers, element of original binding mounted to upper cover, manuscript spine title; x,743pp. Wrappers and textblock quite toned, later ownership signature to title page, else Very Good and sound. More
Encounter with Nothingness: An Essay on Existentialism
Hinsdale, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1949. First American Edition. 12mo; publisher's blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in blue and gilt; xxii,168pp. Cloth extremities a bit scuffed at corners and spine ends, spine significantly faded, contemporary and later ownership signatures to front free endpaper together with learned marginalia throughout, else a Good..... More
Laughing and Crying: A study of the limits of human behavior
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; xiii,[1],172pp. Cloth extremities and spine sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper; else Very Good and sound. More
The Essay on Friendship
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters at the Shop, 1903. "Tall" Edition, one of an unspecified print run. Tall octavo. 36 pp. + colophon. First page of text and colophon hand illuminated. Rebound in recent gray and black boards with silver lettering to front; top edge gilt; new endpapers... More
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1909. One of 10 copies printed for W.K. Bixby, from a total print run of 483. Two small quarto volumes. 208 pp.; 263 pp. Manuscript facsimiles, engravings, and photographs, all present and complete. Errata slip in volume one tipped in at p. xi. Vellum backed cloth..... More
Elements of Criticism, Volume I [William Safire copy]
Edinburgh: A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1765. Third Edition. Volume One only of two volume set. Octavo; xvi, 500pp. Full contemporary calf with five raised bands and red leather label to spine. Ruled and lettered in gilt. Bookplate of author and presidential speech writer William..... More
The Cylindriad [wrapper title: The Philosophy of Geometry. A New Study of the Problem of Good and Evil. Man, creature of the Sun and Artisan, rashly turned his back on the love-inspired Cylindry of Flowers and Flute to become the wretched machine-tender and cannoncaster of the Wattian Big City and, as a result, nearly perished in the fury and flame of the catastrophic war of 1914-40. Yet, God has not abandoned him.
Evansville, IN: Published by the Cordelian Quarterly, 1942. First Edition. Octavo. 69, [1] pp. Original printed cream wrappers. Light rubbing and a trifle soiled; about Very Good. This poetic yet opaque work of metageometry begins, "In the beginning was the sphere," and goes on to detail how society's..... More
Antiquity Forgot: Essays on Shakespeare, Bacon, and Rembrandt
The Hague / Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 160 pp. Green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards show very faint dark staining along spine with a touch of dust soiling along edges. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, paper..... More
Contract Ethics: Evolutionary Biology and the Moral Sentiments [Inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, with additional ALS]
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1995. First Paperback Edition, published simultaneously as hardcover. Signed by the author to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould on title page with inscription "For Stephen Jay Gould, Howard Kahane." Additional handwritten signed letter to Gould laid in. Octavo; xiii, 151pp. Illustrated paper..... More
Ibn Bajjah's 'Ilm Al-Nafs
Karachi: Pakistan Historical Society, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; [4],iv,201pp. Discoloration and bubbling to boards from exposure to damp, more heavily so to rear cover, textblock a bit toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Good to Very Good overall. More
Traite Decisif (Facl el-maqal) sur l'accord de la religion et de la philosophie suivi de l'appendice (Dhamima)
Alger: Editions Carbonel / Imprimerie La Typo-Litho et J. Carbonel, 1948. 3e Édition. Slim 12mo; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; mixed pagination. Wrapper a bit toned along margins, textblock significantly browned due to inferior paper quality, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Bilingual..... More
The Epistle on the Possibility of Conjunction with the Active Intellect
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth, black titling; xi,[3],151,[1],155pp. Boards very slightly bowed, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Bilingual edition in English and Hebrew. More
Livre des Directives et Remarques (Kitab al-Isarat wa l-tanbihat)
Beyrouth / Paris: Commission Internationale pour la Traduction des Chefs-d'Oeuvre / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1951. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's grey printed wrappers; [4],552pp. Wrappers and textblock significantly toned, black stain (paint?) to rear wrapper, textblock starting to separate from wrappers, later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a...... More
La Pensee Politique de Kant: Metaphysique de l'ordre et dialectique du progres
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's white decorative wrappers printed in pink and purple; xx,590pp. Light shelf wear, spine lettering faded, contemporary ownership signature to half title, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series Bibliothèque de la Science Politique. More
Widerstreit und Einheit: Wege zu Kants politischem Denken [Kants weg vom Krieg zum Frieden I]
München: R. Piper & Co., [1967]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow cloth, printed paper spine label; 427pp. Light soil to upper cover, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking dust jacket. More
Kant's Theory of Form: An Essay on the Critique of Pure Reason
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 247 pp. Printed dust jacket. Magenta boards stamped in silver. Boards rubbed along edges and folds with some general scuffing. Minor shelfwear to boards and front board bowed. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper..... More
Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta [Vol. I: Zeno et Zenonis Discipuli; Vol. II: Chrysippi Fragmenta Logica et Physica; Vol. III: Chrysippi Fragmenta Moralia: Fragmenta Successorum Chrysippi; Vol. IV: Quo Indices Continentur / Conscripsit Maximilianus Adler]
Stutgardiae: B.G. Teubneri, 1964. Facsimile Reprint of the First (1905) Edition. Four volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth. Light dust-soil to top textblock edges, spines a shade faded, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpapers, else a Very Good set overall. Text almost entirely in Latin, occasional..... More
Philosophical Essays: Ancient, Mediaeval & Modern
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 358 pp. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards show light bumping along edges, some rippling to cloth, and some staining and rubbing to spine. Binding is sound. Front and back free endpapers toned. Ownership inscription on front..... More
Two Concepts of Liberty: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 31 October 1958
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1966. Later printing. Octavo. 57 pp. Stapled printed wraps. Toning and rubbing along edges of wraps; binding sound. Previous owner's inscription facing title, but pages otherwise unmarked. Uncommon in retail. More
Practical Reflection
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [1989]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dark green pictorial dust jacket; x,332pp. A hint of shelf wear, boards very slightly bowed, else a Near Fine copy. More
Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo. 270 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards with some glue remnants to front joint. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. More