Search Results: Philosophy from Scraps of American History

Washington DC: American Council on Education, 1940. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 299 pages, indexed with a short description of the Council on Education. Prepared for the American Youth Commission. A report of several studies on whether Black youth faced distinctive problems in their development. Red cloth binding with silver titles on front cover and spine and small photo paste on of young black man. Spine faded, corners and spine ends bumped, a little spotting of cover, edge wear, titles chipped away on spine, cover photo holed and chipped, interior pages bright with a few spots, some staining of end papers, binding tight.

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1875. Not stated. Hardcover. Fair/No jacket. 496 pages, illustrated with a tissue protected frontispiece. First volume of a collection of the English philosopher's works. Student's edition. Brick red cloth binding with black and gilt decorations and bands on front cover and spine, gilt titles on spine, brown end papers. Wear to cover with spotting and scuffs, corners and spine ends heavily bumped, hinges a bit weak, crease in bottom corner of front free end paper, interior pages lightly tanning, pages 537 through 543 detached and laid in, binding a bit tender.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 352 pages with index, illustrated with beautiful color plates and black and white photographs and drawings. Companion to the PBS television series, the book lays out Burke's fascinating theory that reality changes as man's view of reality changes with knowledge. Blue boards with silver titles on spine. Very light spotting and minor edge wear, light bumping of corners and spine ends, interior pages bright and clean, binding tight. May never have been read. Illustrated jacket with white and yellow titles on front cover and spine shows some edge wear with small chips, a little scuffing and minor spotting, tiny tear at bottom of front of jacket, darkening along edges of back inner fold.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Not stated. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 347 pages with glossary and index, with introduction and notes by Henry Lewis, M. A., Principal of Culham College, Oxon. Brown cloth binding with gilt titles on spine, advertising on end papers. Some wear and spotting to cover, corners and spine ends bumped and frayed, cover scratched, former owner's name and 1990 date on front free end paper in ink, front hinge a little weak and showing webbing at top, former owner's name "Bessie J. Seely from her mother, Sept. 1880" on title page, interior pages tanned with a little staining, binding tight.

No place: The E. W. Scripps Company, 1948. Probable First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 14 pages. "A letter written by John H. Sorrels, Executive Editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers to a young man considering entering the newspaper business." Handsome blue cloth binding with gilt emblem and titles on front cover. Light edge wear, spine cocked, a little bumping of corners and spine ends, minor spotting and tanning of interior pages, binding tight.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. New Edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 475 pages. Arranged by subject and alphabetically. Red cloth binding with paper label and black titles on spine, gilt top edge. Paper label scrubbed, tanned and chipped, some spotting of cover, water ring on front cover, light edge wear, corners and spine ends bumped with chips in top of spine, stains on cover, creases and former owner's name and 1892 date on front free end paper, hinge a little weak with end papers wrinkled and a little split at hinges, interior pages lightly tanned, binding otherwise tight.

New York: The Pocket Library, 1960. Second printing. Paperback. Good +/No jacket. 379 pages. Selections from Physics, Pschology, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics and Poetics. Translated into English under the editorship of W. D. Ross. Illustrated wraps with white and black titles on front cover and spine, number PL-519. Price sticker on front cover, light edge wear with minor chips at bottom edge of cover, corners a little bumped, minor spotting, interior pages tanned at edges, binding tight. Trade paperback. Measures 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 432 pages plus advertisements, table of contents. Essays and selections on the subjects of autobiography, nature, art and society. Modern Student's Library edition. Navy binding with yellow lettering on front cover and spine, yellow symobl on front cover. Some spotting of cover, a little edge wear, corners and spine ends bumped, notations in pencil and ink on front end papers, some underlining and margin notes in text, interior pages lightly tanned. Small, measures 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 299 pages. The author's definition of modernist as one who believes in life, progress and spiritual and intellectual evolution rather than in tradition and dogma leads him to include Herodotus, St. Francis, Erasmus, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Francois Millet, George Stephenson, Beethoven, Emerson, Darwin and Pasteur.Black cloth binding with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Gilt faded on front cover and gone on spine, some edge wear and spotting, corners and spine ends bumped, scrubbing and staining of cover, author's name on front free end paper (don't know if it's his signature or not) interior pages lightly tanned, hinges a little loose, binding otherwise tight.