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From the Differentiable Viewpoint.

Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1965.

First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original. Boldly signed by John Milnor on the title page. Based on notes by David W. Weaver. Fine in the original glassine jacket.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141351

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Palm Leaf Manuscript.

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Very attractive palm leaf book in East Asian script (possibly Burmese). Approximately 159 palm leaves between two wooden covers with beveled edges, loosely bound with a cord, with a medallion at each...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-52015

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Tolstoy, Leo

Patriotism and Christianity.

London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1896.

First English edition of Tolstoy’s important work on non-resistance. Octavo, original cloth. With a note to English readers by John C. Kenworthy. In very good condition with some toning to the s...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146054

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Parfit, Derek

Reasons and Persons.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-114653

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Barnett, Lincoln; Foreword by Albert Einstein

The Universe and Dr. Einstein.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948.

First edition of this work praised by Einstein himself. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Anthony Sadoro. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author to Anne Goodman on the front free end...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-133464

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Frankfurter, Felix

Felix Frankfurter Reminisces: Recorded in Talks With Dr. Harlan B. Phillips.

New York: Reynal & Company, 1960.

First edition of this collection of thoughts from Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-59088

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Parfit, Derek

Reasons and Persons.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-138268

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Millett, Kate

Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970.

First edition of the author’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Kate Millett on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket typograph...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-46008

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Kierkegaard, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie

Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.

London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd, 1940.

First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard’s important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148328

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Baba, Meher

God to Man And Man To God.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955.

First edition of this work by Meher Baba. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by C.B. Purdom.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117989

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Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation, being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing.

London: Henry Washbourne, 1842.

The Washbourne edition of this classic of English literature, being a reprint of the 5th Major edition and including a facsimile reproduction of title page of the first edition of 1653. Octavo, bound...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149781

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Yalom, Irvin D

Inpatient Group Psychotherapy.

New York: Basic Books, 1983.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Pat Irvin D. Yalom.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ja...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-141494

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Ayer, Alfred J. [A.J.]

The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge.

London : Macmillan & Co, 1962.

Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “with best wishes A.J. Ayer Mexico City September 11 1963.” In very good condit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133103

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Durant, Will

The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929.

First edition of Durant’s “attempt at a consistent philosophy of life.” Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Stanley Bauman S...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124919

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Ayer, Alfred J. [A.J.]

Philosophical Essays.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1963.

Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “with best wishes A.J. Ayer September 15, 1963 Mexico City.” In very good condi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133105

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Dana, James (Jonathan Edwards)

The “Examination of the Late Rev’d President Edwards’s Enquiry on Freedom of Will,” Continued.

New Haven: Printed for Thomas and Samuel Green, 1773.

First edition of American Protestant clergyman James Dana’s second published response to Jonathan Edwards’ Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will, preceded b...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-82405

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Putnam, Hilary

Ethics Without Ontology.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

First edition of this work on ontology by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-68341

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Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann

The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966.

First edition of one of the most important sociological texts of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Norman Ives.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-102244

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Dillard, Annie

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek.

New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.

First edition, early printing of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Annie Dillard on the title page. Fine in a near fin...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-134771

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Kierkegaard, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie

Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.

London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1940.

First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard’s important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144009

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Jameson, Fredric

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.

First edition of this “classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought” (Ned Lukacher). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147399

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Masters, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson

Human Sexual Inadequacy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.

First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Masters and Johnson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117478

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Lewis, C.S

Rehabilitations and Other Essays.

London: Oxford University Press, 1939.

First edition of one of Lewis’ earliest and most substantial books of essays. Octavo, original cloth, top edge black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-131228

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Plato [Socrates]

Plato and Socrates.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.

Finely bound edition of this collection of Plato’s Socratic dialogues, including “Euthyphro,” “Apology,” “Crito,” and “Phaedo”. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151306

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