Search Results: Philosophy from Zetetic Books

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1962. [5]-vi, [3], 2-235pp, [1]; [7], 2-193pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ's. DJ spines browned, couple of small nicks, but generally fairly clean. Contributors include Vendler, J.R. Lucas, and G.E.M. Anscombe. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1898. xxxi, [1], 409pp, [3], original cloth. Spine slightly faded, rubbed to extremities, text lightly browned, with a few instances of pencil marginalia, newspaper cutting pasted to front pastedown, rear endpaper has slightly stuck to rear pastedown with resulting remnants to rear pastedown and some loss to endpaper, but generally fairly clean. Second Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Routledge, 1992. [6], vii-x, 187pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. Bookplate of Professor J. P. Griffin to front pastedown, otherwise bright and clean. David W. Hamlyn (1924-2012) was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London (1964-88). First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969. [10], 13-240pp. Original buckram in DJ. DJ very slightly rubbed, spine, lower panel and edges of flaps lightly browned, text block with a hint of browning, but generally quite bright and clean. Elizabeth Ramsden Eames (1921-2019), taught philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale from 1963 to 1990, obtaining the title professor emeritus upon her retirement. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. [10], xi-xiii, [5], 5-295pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities. Corners gently bumped, otherwise quite bright and clean. Presentation copy from the author to Professor James P. Griffin, with note to endpaper. Wellman (1926-2021) was the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Presentation Copy from Author. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1976. xvi, 304pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ has a light score across the front panel. Internally there is a date to ffep, otherwise very good indeed. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xi, [1], 272pp, original buckram in DJ. Bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1948. [2], 94pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, a few small nicks and tears to edges. Name stamp of James Griffin to ffep, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. [7]-viii, [1], 2-302pp. Original buckram in DJ. Lettering to DJ spine slightly faded, very slightly rubbed to extremities. A few instances of pen lines and marginalia, but generally clean. Vinit Haksar currently works at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-458pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ rubbed to extremities, small tear to head of upper panel, couple of small nicks. Internally quite bright and clean. Includes essays by Quine, Strawson, Geach and Linsky. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

London & Dunedin: Chatto and Windus in association with University of Otago Press, 1965. [10], 11-112pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly dulled, otherwise quite bright and clean. Stuart Hampshire (1914-2004) was an English philosopher and literary critic. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1928. 384pp, original cloth, title, author and publisher in gilt to spine. Slightly rubbed, minor scrape to upper cover, lightly foxed to fore-edge of text block, top edge lightly dust stained, internally quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo.

Wien: Springer, 1974. xxvi, 410pp, original cloth in DJ. DJ very slightly soiled, previous owners ink stamp to foot of ffep, otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. [7], viii-xvii, [4], 4-351pp, [2], ii-x. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine slightly faded, rubbed to extremities. Corners bumped, internally quite bright and clean. Marcus George Singer (1926-2016) was an American philosopher. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good+. 8vo.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. [5]-vi, [3], 2-219pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, otherwise quite bright and clean. From the library of Professor James P. Griffin, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Christopher Peacocke (1950-) is a British philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind and epistemology. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. [6], 7-261pp, [3]. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine lightly faded, running round on to the top edge of the upper panel. Bookplate of Professor James P. Griffin to front pastedown, with his sporadic marginal lines and notes throughout. Stephen Darwall (1946-) is a contemporary moral philosopher, best known for his work developing Kantian and deontological themes. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good+. 8vo.

Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. [4], v-vii, [1], 264pp. Original buckram in DJ. DJ slightly yellowed. Bookplate of Professor James P. Griffin to front pastedown, otherwise quite bright and clean. Chris Brown is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good+. 8vo.

London: Pall Mall Press, 1968. [6]-vii, [3], 3-178pp. Original cloth in DJ. DJ spine faded, slightly edge worn, couple of small nicks and tears to edges, internally fairly bright and clean. Max Black (1909-1988) was an Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher who was a leading figure in analytic philosophy in the years after World War Two. First Edition. Hardback. Good+/Good. 8vo.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. [6], vii-xi, [3], 203pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ. DJ with a small scrape to spine, some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise quite bright and clean. Zeno Vendler (1921-2004) was an American philosopher of language. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. xi, [1], 504pp, original cloth, title and author in gilt to spine, black blocked border and floral device to upper cover, repeated in blind to lower cover, primrose endpapers. Chipped to spine ends with small amount of loss, cloth slightly split to outer hinges but holding well, spine faded, covers slightly faded, rubbed to extremities, previous owners name to front endpaper, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. First Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo.