33024. Bloom, Allan, 1930-1992. Giants and dwarfs : essays, 1960-1990. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990, 1st printing, 395pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear at top corner, very good black half-cloth, $13
Includes obituaries for Leo Strauss, Raymond Aron, and Alexandre Kojève. Further essays on Rawls, Socrates, Plato, Rousseau, Shakespeare. ISBN 0671707779

32448. Bloom, Allan, 1930-1992. Giants and dwarfs : essays, 1960-1990. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990, 1st printing, 395pp., very good dust-jacket, small chip at bottom of rear panel, good black half-cloth but with small bruise at bottom of rear cover, light foxing on foredge, $11
Includes obituaries for Leo Strauss, Raymond Aron, and Alexandre Kojève. Further essays on Rawls, Socrates, Plato, Rousseau, Shakespeare. ISBN 0671707779

25898. Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-. The university of Utopia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953, ix, 103pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $45
Charles R. Walgreen Foundation lectures, 1953. As an epigram Hutchins chose a passage from Ernst Juenger's Marble Cliffs about times when it is impossible for us to grasp the fleeting moment and we reach for distant utopias or the irretrievable past.

23589. Lerner, Ralph. Revolutions revisited : two faces of the politics of enlightenment. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994, 1994, xv, 136pp., dust-jacket chipped at top edge, old price-label, very good red cloth, $15
. ISBN 0807821365

16907. Lerner, Ralph. The thinking revolutionary: principle and practice in the new republic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, xv, 238pp., 24 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good brown cloth, $20
. ISBN 0801420075

12370. Nef, John U., 1899-. The United States and civilization. Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 1943, 2d impression, xviii, 421pp., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, slight wear, INSCRIBED by John to Pehar v. B. Who makes me feel very humble by going to such extravagance, 1948.. $85
Charles R. Walgreen foundation lectures.

3397. Nef, John U., 1899-1988. War and human progress. An essay on the rise of industrial civilization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950, ix, 464pp. 25 cm., badly torn but complete dust-jacket, very good black cloth, publisher's announcement laid in, $17
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3309. Nef, John. A search for civilization. Chicago: H. Regnery Co, 1962, 210pp., very good tan cloth, Presentation copy: INSCRIBED "From John" on the dedication page just under the printed dedication To Nan. $50
On the role of wisdom, faith, beauty, and virtue in the foundation of civilization. Nef was one of the founders and Chairman of the Committe on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

31827. Storing, Herbert J., 1928-. Essays on the scientific study of politics. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, later printing, vii, 333pp., dust-jacket chipped around edges, very good green half-cloth, previous owner's name, $45
Voting studies, by Walter Berns. - The science of administration; Herbert A. Simon, by Herbert J. Storing. - The group approach; Arthur F. Bentley, by Leo Weinstein. - Scientific propaganda; Harold D. Lasswell, by Robert Horwitz. - An epilogue, by Leo Strauss (pp. 305-327).

9983. Strauss, Leo, 1899-1973. Spinoza's critique of religion. translated by E. M. Sinclair. New York: Schocken Books, 1965, 351pp., 24 cm., very good brown cloth, light wear to cover and foredges, $75
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