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Dressage in the Fourth Dimension

By: Ackerman, Sherry L .

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Novato, California, New World Library: 2008

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028985

ISBN: 1577316231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First Printing of the Second Edition, in clean unclipped dust jacket. As-new condition. Very clean yellow boards with stamped metallic lettering on cover and spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Foreword by Linda Kohanov. 131 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Vegetable Diet - As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and By Experience in All Ages

By: Alcott, William A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing: 2012

Edition: Facsimile Edition

Seller ID: 027227

ISBN: 1449423140

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good+

Very attractive facsimile edition of William A. Alcott's "Vegetable Diet" originally published in 1838. It was the first American book to advocate a vegetarian diet and the author was a founding member of the first organization to promote vegetarian philosophy, the American Vegetarian Society. Clean dark green cloth boards with gold border, lettering, and a color paste-on decoration. Gilt page edges. No bumping or wear. Green ribbon page marker. Clean marbled endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Introduction by Anna Thomas. 276 pages.
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The March of Philosophy

By: Alpern, Henry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dial Press: 1934

Seller ID: 000283

Binding: Cloth Bds

Condition: Very Good

381 pgs. VG Very clean ribbed cloth book with design impressed on cover. Gold lettering on spine. Binding tight & square, clean edges. P/O inscription on FFE. Pages are bright and clean, but there is some text highlighted.Philosophy.
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Whither Mankind: A Panorama of Modern Civilization

By: Beard, Charles A.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.: 1928

Edition: First

Seller ID: 004303

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good++

Clean black ribbed cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumped corners, cover lettering is bright, binding is tight & square with no cracking. P/O name inside front cover in pencil. Pages are clean. 408 pgs. 8vo. History.
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Fear, War and the Bomb - Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy

By: Blackett, P.M.S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Whittlesey House - McGraw Hill: 1949

Edition: First

Seller ID: 024801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean unfaded dark blue cloth boards with green lettering on spine. Tiny spot of wear to each of the lower corner tips. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 244 pages with index. Dust jacket is clean, has some edge wear, small corner chip at top left corner of front panel, surface scrape to lower spine. Author's photo on rear inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A brilliant analysis of the problem posed by the...
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Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance - Being the Waynflete Lectures delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford in Hilary Term 1948

By: Born, Max

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University at the Clarendon Press: 1949

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First English Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with blank endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 215 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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The Recreations of a Country Parson

By: Boyd, Andrew

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields: 1861

Edition: First

Seller ID: 016034

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean black pebbly cloth boards with stamped decoration on cover, bright stamped gilt lettering on spine. One tiny pin-head size spot of wear to lower rear spine corner. No fading, no bumping. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. 1861 in Roman Numerals on title page. Second book in a three volume series. Clean dark brown endpapers (small circular previous owner blind stamped embossment to lower corner of front free endpaper). Gilt top page edges. 444 pgs. Philosophical thoughts on work and play, country houses and country life, hurry, worries and growing old. 8vo. Philosophy.
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Third Class World - A Roving Philosopher Observes the Common Man

By: Bradshaw, Marion J.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Bangor, Maine, Marion J. Bradshaw: 1938

Edition: Deluxe Limited Edition

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 023463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Deluxe Limited Edition (this being number 487 of five hundred copies) SIGNED by the author and in original dust jacket. Clean, unfaded black cloth boards with gold decoration on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean photo-decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Errata sheet laid in. With one hundred twenty full page reproductions of the author's photographs and five itinerary maps. Photographs are gorgeous, clean and sharp, and are accompanied by clean printed tissue guards. 269 pages. Dust jac...
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A Few Brass Tacks

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/ London, Harper & Brothers: 1946

Edition: First

Seller ID: 015617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First Edition in unclipped jacket. Black cloth boards with gold title box on spine. No bumping or wear. Faintest hint of light soiling. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 303 pgs. Unchipped dustjacket is not price clipped, with just a hint of slightest edge wear and very slight soiling, one 1/4" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize winning author, on some answers to the political, economic and social problems of America and the world. 8v...
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The Maxims of Methuselah - Being the advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age in Regard to Women

By: Burgess, Gelett

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes: 1907

Edition: First

Seller ID: 023883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Green cloth boards with large illustrated paste-on illustration on front and rear boards. Illustrations, Decorations, and Cover Design by Louis D. Fancher. Slight wear-through to corners and spine ends. Cover illustrations (front and back) are clean and unrubbed. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. All pages are decorated and clean. 108 pages.
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The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

By: Byrne, Robert

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Galahad: 2001

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028836

ISBN: 0883659603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Very clean beige paper-covered boards with burgundy cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Small previous owner name and address neatly stamped at top of front free endpaper - no other marks. Sources, references and notes at end of book. Amusing black and white illustrations throughout. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. From Goethe to Churchill to Woody Allen, pithy statements of...
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What Men Live By

By: Cabot, Richard C., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard University

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1914

Seller ID: 021011

Binding: Leather_bound

Condition: Very Good+

"Published January 1914" on copyright page. Clean brown leather boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. A few very light scuffs to spine, tiny closed tear (1/4") at lower spine corner. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. Slight browning to outside edges of front and rear free endpaper from leather contact, otherwise clean, no foxing or marks. 341 pp. Author writes on the roles work, play, love and worship in the happiness of humanity.
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

By: Camus, Albert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1969

Edition: Second Modern Library Edition

Seller ID: 028233

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Modern Library No. 339 in clean unclipped dust jacket. Toledano binding no. 14. Translated from the French and with an Introduction by Justin O'Brien. Very clean dark blue cloth boards with "ml" logo blind-stamped on cover, bright silver lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Fujita endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 209 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one tiny closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Emerson - Representative Selections, with Introduciton, Bibliography and Notes

By: Carpenter, Frederic I.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: American Book Company: 1934

Seller ID: 001152

Binding: Cloth Bds

Condition: Very Good+

Blue cloth, clean straight book with no bumping or wear, but does have some underlining and marginal notes. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Frontis portrait of Emerson. Representative selections with introduction, bibliography and notes. Written by Frederic I. Carpenter, Instructor in English at Harvard University. 452 pgs.
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Existentialism: Disintegration of Man's Soul

By: De Ruggiero, Guido

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Social Sciences Publishers: 1948

Edition: First

Seller ID: 010750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Very clean green cloth boards with black title box, gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with slight offsets (shadows) to a couple of pages from clippings that were enclosed. Small previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper behind dustjacket inside flap. 96 pgs. 8vo. Philosophy.
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The Image of The Chinese Family in Pearl Buck's Novels - A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of the Department of English - St. John's University, New York

By: Doan-Cao-Ly, Ph.D.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Saigon, Duc-Sinh: 1964

Edition: First

Seller ID: 021812

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Softbound in rigid paper wrappers, with black and red lettering on cover, black lettering on spine. No creasing or chipping. Hint of very light soiling. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 151 pages with Bibliography.
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The Road to Reason

By: du Nouy, Lecomte

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1949

Edition: First

Seller ID: 025499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Stated First Edition in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean dark blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with small neatly penned previous owner name and place in upper corner of front free endpaper. No other marks. Frontispiece photo portrait of Lecomte du Nouy. Translated and Edited by Mary Lecomte du Nouy. 254 pages with index. Clean jacket is not price clipped (3.50 on front inside flap), no fading, slight edge wear and a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new ar...
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Tough Sod

By: Eastman, E. R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ithaca, NY, American Agriculturist: 1944

Edition: First

Seller ID: 023962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Printing (stated) in clean original dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with gold lettering and small illustration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean. Very brief previous owner inscription dated 1944 neatly penned on front free endpaper. No other marks. 246 pages. Dust jacket is clean, with very slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel of farm life and country philosophy, romance and conflict, by the one-time President and Editor of "American Agri...
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Philosopher's Holiday

By: Edman, Irwin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Viking Press: 1938

Edition: First

Seller ID: 000501

Binding: Cloth Bds

Condition: Very Good

270 pgs. VG Published November, 1938. Green cloth boards with silver lettering on cover, black spine with silver lettering. Binding is tight & square, pages are clean. No names, bookplates or writing inside. Very light fading to extreme edges. Almost no wear to boards. 8vo. First Edition.
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Philosopher's Holiday

By: Edman, Irwin

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1938

Edition: First

Seller ID: 013719

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean green cloth boards (one tiny faint spot to cover) with silver lettering on cover, black cloth spine with silver lettering/decoration. No fraying or wear. Hint of slightest fading to edges. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers with previous owner name neatly penned on front free endpaper. 270 pgs. 8vo. Travel.
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Keyword: philosophy