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16200. Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Matthew Arnold's Essays in criticism : First series. Edited, with an introd. and notes, by Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968, Critical ed, xliii, 367pp. 24 cm, very good dust-jacket with a few minor tears, very good green cloth, $15
Includes essays on Heine, Joubert, Spinoza and the Bible.


17737. Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Essays in criticism, second series. London: Macmillan, 1911, later printing, vii, 331pp., 19 cm, good small red cloth, light wear, pages mostly uncut but with a few minor pencil notations, previous owner's name, $12
The study of poetry -- Milton -- Thomas Gray -- John Keats -- Wordsworth -- Byron -- Shelley -- Count Leo Tolstoi -- Amiel.


4825. Barfield, Owen, 1898-1997. Romanticism comes of age. London: Anthroposophical Publishing Company, 1944, 163, [1] p. 19 cm., small red cloth, good used copy but with pencil marks in margins on many pages, previous owner's name, $35
Essays.


21689. Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997. Concepts and categories: philosophical essays. Edited by Henry Hardy. With an introduction by Bernard Williams. New York: Viking Press, 1979, xix, 202pp. 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth, $12
The purpose of philosophy. -- Verification. -- Empirical propositions and hypothetical statements. -- Logical translation. -- Equality. -- The concept of scientific history. -- Does political theory still exist?. -- "From hope and fear set free.". ISBN 0670235520


12314. Boyce, Benjamin, 1903-. The Theophrastan character in England to 1642. With assistance and notes by Chester Noyes Greenough. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1947, ix, 324pp. 22 cm, very good gray cloth, $35
Early modern English Literature: Joseph Hall, Overbury, Casaubon, Earle, sermons, Theophrastus.


17573. Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. With portrait after J. McNeill Whistler. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons / London: Service & Paton, 1897, 316pp., very good green cloth, some foxing, previous owner's stamp, $15
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18618. Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Thomas Carlyle's ausgewählte Schriften. Deutsch von A. Kretzschmar. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1855, 242, 254pp., two volumes bound in one, good but worn private half-cloth, heavy foxing, $35
Thomas Carlyle:1795.-1881.


17285. Cohen, L. Jonathan. The diversity of meaning. London, Methuen, 1966, 2nd ed, xii, 369pp. 22 1/2 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, previous owner's name: Israel Scheffler, $12
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10355. Epstein, Joel J.. Francis Bacon: a political biography. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977, xv, 187pp. : port.. 25 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good red cloth, $17
A revision of the author's thesis, Rutgers. ISBN 0821402323


20709. Hagstrum, Jean H.. Samuel Johnson's literary criticism. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1967], xix, 212pp. 21 cm, sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $7
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11153. Hampshire, Stuart, 1914-2004. Thought and action. London: Chatto and Windus, 1960, 2d impression, 276pp. 23 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, $15
Introduction - Persons and their Situation - Intention and Action - Action and Self-Consciousness - Criticism and Regret - Conclusion - Index.


11155. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W. N.. Oxford in the age of John Locke. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973, stated First Edition, xi, 132pp. 20 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, $12
The Centers of civilization series. ISBN 0806110384


17579. Hartland-Swann, John. An analysis of knowing. London, Allen & Unwin [1958], 141pp. 23 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, previous owner's name: Israel Scheffler, $15
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9721. Hume, David, 1711-1776. Dialoge über natürliche Religion. Übersetzt und herausgegeben von Norbert Hoerster. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1981, 158pp., PAPERBACK, very good, INSCRIBED by the editor, Hoersters, to fellow-philosopher Elisabeth Ströker. $20
. ISBN 3150076927


29749. Kemp, Wolfgang, 1946-. The desire of my eyes : the life and work of John Ruskin. Translated from the German by Jan van Heurck. New York: Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, x, 513pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, $9
. ISBN 0374523487


27652. Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism : With critical essays. Edited by Samuel Gorovitz. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971, stated First Printing of this edition, xxv, 410pp. 24 cm, large PAPERBACK, very good, $13
The Bobbs-Merrill text and commentary series, 7. Contains Mill's text and 28 critical essays, plus bibliographies.


27719. Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. The subjection of women. Introduction by Wendell Robert Carr. Cambridge : M.I.T. Press, 1985, 10th printing, xxix, 101 p. 21 cm., PAPERBACK, very good, $7.5
Cover design by Bernie LaCasse. Substantial 24pp introduction by Carr. ISBN 0262630399


14371. Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. On Bentham and Coleridge. New York: Harper & Row, 1962, c1950, 168pp. 20 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, light wear, previous owner's name, $7.5
Harper Torchbook, Series. Includes 38pp. introduction by F. R. Leavis.


11316. Packe, Michael St. John. The life of John Stuart Mill. Preface by F. A. Hayek. New York: Capricorn Books, 1970, xvi, 567pp. illus., ports. 25 cm., PAPERBACK, very good but spine faded, light wear, $7
First published in 1954. 2-page preface by Friedrich A. Hayek.


23007. Reid, Louis Arnaud, 1895-1986. A study in aesthetics. New York: Macmillan, 1954, 415pp., very good blue cloth, spine a bit faded, previous owner's bookplate: Rosalyn and Edwin Gittleman, $12
Much reprinted treatise by Liverpool philosopher, preface dated 1930. "Reid’s approach implied a treatment of aesthetic as an autonomous philosophical science, not simply as a branch of the theory of perception" (Routledge, Biogr.Dict.20thC Phil.).


23085. Ridley, Aaron. Collingwood. New York: Routledge, 1999, 53pp. 18 cm, small PAPERBACK, very good, $5
The great philosophers. ISBN 0415923999


10749. Robson, John M. / Michael Laine, ed.. James and John Stuart Mill: papers of the centenary conference. Toronto: Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1976, ix, 162pp. . 25 cm., very good cloth, $15
"Held at the University of Toronto on 3-5 May 1973, honouring the bicentenary of James Mill's birth and the centenary of John Stuart Mill's death.".


31706. Rosenberg, John D.. Carlyle and the burden of history. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985, viii, 209 pp., 22 cm., dust-jacket torn at bottom of spine, a bit faded, old label on rear, very good blue cloth, nicely INSCRIBED by author John to two friends with thanks dated 1985. $25
. ISBN 0674097548


3252. Routh, H. V.. Towards the twentieth century. Essays in the spiritual history of the nineteenth. Cambridge: Eng.] The University Press ; NY, Macmillan, 1937, x, 392pp. 24 cm., very good green cloth, some foxing on endpapers, previous owner's name, $19
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17458. Royal Institute of Philosophy. Knowledge and necessity. Foreword by G. N. A. Vesey. London: Macmillan, New York: St Martin's Press, 1970, xxi, 284pp. 23 cm, sewn PAPERBACK, very good, cover faded at top, $12
Royal Institute of Philosophy lectures, vol. 3. Contributors: R. Edgley, Innate Ideas - John W. Yolton, Perceptual Consciousness - B. A. Farrell, A Psychological Look at Some Problems of Perception - Peter Alexander, Inferences about Seeing - M. R. Ayers, Perception and Action - A. Palmer, Thinking and Performance - C. W. K. Mundle, Philosphical Behaviorism - David Wiggins, Freedom, Knowledge, Belief and Causality - R. G. Swinburne, Physical Determinism - Michael Clark, Discourse about the Future - Mary Hesse, Duhem, Quine and a New Empiricism - Don Locke, Memory, Memories and Me - Martha Kneale, Dreaming - J. B. Schneewind, Moral Knowledge and Moral Principles - Terence Penelhum, Is a religious Epistemology Possible?.


29684. Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. The Queen of the Air. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, no date, around 1897, 1897, 247pp., small original half-cloth with gold decorated spine and flower boards, some wear around edges of boards, some light foxing, previous owner's date note: Burlington, VT / Aug. 3rd '97 [=1897], $12
Full original title was: The Queen of the air, being a study of the Greek myths of cloud and storm, much reprinted in the US, consisting of three lectures from 1869: Athena in the Heavens, Athena in the Earth, Athena in the Heart. Relates Athena "to the vital force in material organism." 4 illustrations of Athena, Minerva, Mercury. Of this book, Wolfgang Kemp wrote : "Ruskin in fact developed a model for the interpretation of myth which would apply equally well to the interpretation of dreams" (310).


15406. Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. The Art of England. Lectures given in Oxford during his second tenure of the Slade professorship. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1883, 33pp., very good gray paper-covered boards, slight wear, slight foxing, $35
Lecture I: Realistic Schools of Painting, D. G. Rossetti and W. Holman Hunt - Lecture II: Mythic Schools of Painting, E. Burne-Jones and G. F. Watts.


10808. Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970. Mysticism and logic. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957, no date [about 1957], vi, 226pp. 18 cm., PAPERBACK, good used copy, $5
Typography by Edward Gorey. Doubleday anchor books, A104. First published in 1910 under title: Philosophical essays.


32311. Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970. Nightmares of eminent persons, and other stories. Illustrated by Charles W. Stewart. New York: Simon and Schuster, stated First Printing, 177pp., good dust-jacket, worn around edges, very good black half-cloth, light wear to corners, $12
Jacket design by Charles E. Skaggs. First published in Britain in 1954. Satirical writings on the nightmares of: the queen of Sheba, the psychoanalyst, the metaphysician, the existentialist, the mathematician, Stalin, Eisenhower, Dean Acheson, Dr. Southport Vulpe, Zahatopolk, Faith and Mountains. "Nightmares of Eminent Persons is a collection of thirteen stories, moral fables for today. They are devastating in their impact, far-ranging in their fantasy, unswerving in their devotion to reason. "Signposts to Sanity," Lord Russell calls them in his Introduction" (jacket text).


34739. Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970. Marriage and morals. New York : Liveright, 1930, 5th printing, 320pp., good blue cloth, light wear at top and bottom of spine, front hinge a bit wobbly, previous owner's name : Robert Henry Forman Snyder, April 11, 1930, New Haven, Conn., $10
CONTENTS: Why a sexual ethic is necessary - Where fatherhood is unknown - The dominion of the father - Phallic worship, asceticism and sin- christian ethics - Romantic Love - the Liberation of Women - The taboo on sex knowledge - The place of love in human life - Marriage - Prostitution - Trial marriage - The family at the present day - The family in individual psychology - The family and the state - Divorce - Population - Eugenics - Sex and individual well-being - The place of sex among human values - conlcusion.


11165. Ryan, Alan. J. S. Mill. London: : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974, xii, 283pp. . 23 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, $15
Routledge author guides. ISBN 0710079540


33259. Ryle, Gilbert, 1900-1976. The concept of mind. London: Hutchinson, 1969, reprinted, vi, 334pp., very good dark red cloth, one corner lightly bumped, remainder stripe on bottom foredge, $8
First published in 1949. CONTENTS: Descartes' Myth - Knowing How and Knowing That - The Will - Emotion - Dispositions and Occurrences - Self-Knowledge - Sensation and Observation - Imagination - The Intellect - Psychology. ISBN 0090238922


11201. Sturt, Mary. The psychology of time. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, In, 1925, vi,pp., 1 l., 152pp. 23 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, spine label scraped off, very good cloth, previous owner's name, $40
International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method. "Part of this book has already appeared in the British journal of psychology and in the Report of the Psychological congress held at Oxford in 1923." -- Pref.


21461. Walcott, Fred G.. The origins of culture & anarchy: Matthew Arnold & popular education in England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970, xxiii, 161pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $10
. ISBN 0802052290