Search Results: Titles starting with M from Respublica Books LLC

New York: The John Day Company, 1941. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original orange cloth in the scarce and well-preserved original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Chip to head and base of spine; one-inch closed tear to head of front panel; small scuff to rear panel. Exceptional first printing of Burnham's groundbreaking work in an uncommonly bright dust jacket. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket.. James Burnham's (1905-1987) seminal work in which he argues that capitalism will be displaced by a form of global managerialism and, as a result, bureaucratic elites will supplant workers and capitalists at the apex of power. Prior to publishing The Managerial Revolution Burnham was a prominent Trotskyist, but he would resign from the Workers Party in 1940 and thereafter become an influential theorist in the post-war American conservative movement. Shortly after the outbreak of the European phase of World War II, Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution to explain the major world powers'… Read More

Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1920. First edition, first printing. One of only 400 printed. Octavo. Original blue paper boards with buff linen spine. All edges untrimmed. In the original plain tan dust jacket, preserved in glassine wrap, with chipping to dust jacket (particularly to spine). Preserved in a custom clamshell box. A brilliant first printing of this monumental work in the exceedingly rare original dust jacket.. A remarkably bright first printing-in the scarce original dust jacket-of one of W.B. Yeats's (1865-1939) most important poetry collections. One of only 400 printed. Michael Robartes and the Dancer includes the first book printing of some of Yeats's most famous poems, including "The Second Coming," "Easter, 1916," and "A Prayer for My Daughter." The book was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, and, according to its colophon, was completed on All Soul's Day (November 1st) 1920-although Wade (a Yeats editor and bibliographer) claims the book was not… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1958. First bound edition. Octavo. Volume XXXIII (33)-1958, bound in original boards. Minor scuffing and spotting to page block; pencil bookseller notations to front pastedown endpaper, else a near-fine bound edition of Volume 33 (1958) of Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, complete with advertisements.. Uncommon bound first edition of the journal Philosophy with G. E. M. Anscombe's (1919-2001) landmark article "Modern Moral Philosophy," which offered a powerful critique of the Kantian and utilitarian ethical traditions in modern moral philosophy-and is renowned for introducing the term "consequentialism" into the lexicon of analytical philosophy and for inaugurating a revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics. In her article, Anscombe, a distinguished British analytical philosopher and professor at the University of Cambridge, set forth a powerful critique of Kantian and utilitarian ethics, arguing that both sought a foundation for morality… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1970. First edition. Octavo. Original black cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor toning and scuffing to dust jacket, else fine. Bookplate of Japanese-American theologian and Christian environmentalist, Jitsuo Morikawa, is pasted to front free endpaper. Fine in near-fine dust jacket.. First edition of Richard John Neuhaus's (1936-2009) first book, co-authored with Austrian-born sociologist and theologian Peter L. Berger (1929-2017). Neuhaus was among the most influential American Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century who, alongside H. Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and other prominent contemporary theologians, explored the intersection of religion, politics, and policy in America's modern public square. Neuhaus began his career as a minister in the Lutheran Church after completing his divinity training at Concordia Seminary in 1960. From 1961 to 1978 Neuhaus served as pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, overseeing… Read More