Philosophy from Scraps of American History

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item