Philosophy from Bee Creek Books

New York: Random House, 1992. "...will forever alter our fundamental view of television and what it has brought to and stolen from our lives." 261 pages with index. Cream paper hard cover with red cloth spine. Very light wear to cover corners and edges, spine ends are bent. DJ in VG+ condition with slight wear to edges, corners and spine… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 500 pp. No publishing date listed. Green cloth cover with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are rubbed to boards, edges bumped, white marks/scuffing on cover faces, spine is creased, spine ends are bent and fraying. Front hinge broken, back hinge loose. Interior pages are lightly browning, otherwise clean. Book in… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. 329 pp. Stated first edition. Gift inscription by author on front free endpaper to fellow author and friend Katherine Newlin Burt (Western novelist), which reads "To Mrs. Struthers Burt, in good faith, not with the expectation of rereading, but to commemorate a really good time on shipbound. Steward Edward White". Black… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1971. "This concise handbook on human relations is from ancient China and may be the oldest book in the world." 63 pp. Red paper hard cover with image of gold dragon on front. DJ in Good- to Good condition with chipping/creasing to edges and corners, fading to spine and back top cover… Read more about this item

London: Blackie & Son Limited Translated by Ralph Robinson. Introduction by H. G. Wells. No publication date. 220 pp. Blue cloth cover with faded gilt title on spine. Light wear and rubbing to cover corners and edges, scuffing and stain on cover faces, spine ends are bent and fraying. Gilt top page edge. Previous owner's bookplate adhered on front inside… Read more about this item

London: John Sharpe Volume I: Books I. II. Ancient and Classical. 288 pp. Authors include Cicero, Pliny. Volume III: Pope and His Friends. Books V. VI. Modern of Late Date. 288 pp. Authors include Pope, Berkley, Blount, Atterbury, Swift, Prior, Duchess of Ormond, Arbuthnot, Bollingbroke, Gay, Bathurst. Volume IV: Books VII. VIII. Miscellaneous, of Modern and Late Date. 288 pp… Read more about this item

New York: Brentano's, 1904. "With this account of the origin of the book, and a reminder that it is not a critical essay on the poetic beauties of Ibsen, but simply an exposition of Ibsenism, I offer it to the public what they can of it." 170 pp. Blue cloth covers with brown title bar on spine. Cover corners and… Read more about this item

New York: Hurst & Co. Translated from the Greek by John Dryden and Others. The Whole Carefully Revised and Corrected to which is Prefixed 'A Life of Plutarch.' Reprinted from the Latest English Editions. "This translation of the lives here presented is that known as Dryden's ; because a life of Plutarch from his hand was originally published with it,… Read more about this item

Wilkes-Barre, PA: Dimension Books, 1965. Translation was made by Noel Lindsay. Author facsimilie signature on dedication page. 125 pp. Black cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Gold slipcase in VG+ condition with dirt smudges to corners and edges. Book in NF condition.. Cloth. Near Fine/Slipcase. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Philosophy.

Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1900. Those memorialized in this volume include: John A. Ryder, William H. Furness, Henry Hazlehurst, Henry Phillips, Jr., William John Potts, Lewis Allaire Scott, J. Sergeant Price, Thomas Sterry Hunt, Henry Duval Gregory, William Pepper, Richard A. Tilghman, Alexander Biddle, W. G. A. Bonwill, Daniel Garrison Brinton, and Edward Drinker Cope. 316 pp. Olive green… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Centenary Edition, Volume I. 250 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed to boards, edges rubbed, scuffing to cover faces, some faded areas on spine, spine ends are bent and frayed. Uncut page edges. Endpapers are browning. Photograph frontispiece with tissueguard. Title page has… Read more about this item

New York: R.R. Bowker, 1964. 1292 pp. including index. Blue covers with white lettering on front cover and spine. Spine's top edge, small piece fraying. Overall covers are Good or better. ex. library markings on title page. Front endpaper with library pocket residue? Previous owner's name: Ed Woodworth stamped. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Thick book. Could require… Read more about this item

Commencing with Obituary Notice of Edward Garside. Born 1860. Died, March 6th, 1939. Disbound with Proceedings, Annual Report,etc. uncut pages. i-lxvi. string-tied. Very Good+. Date? 1939?. Paperbound. Very Good. Philosophy.

New York: George Munro's Sons, 1895. Munro's Library of Popular Novels. No. 42. A collection of humorous essays. The book consists of 14 independent articles arranged by themes: ON BEING IDLE. ON BEING IN LOVE. ON BEING IN THE BLUES. ON BEING HARD UP. ON VANITY AND VANITIES. ON GETTING ON IN THE WORLD. ON THE WEATHER. ON CATS AND… Read more about this item

Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1968. 107 pp. Red cloth covers with gilt title on front and spine. Several white specks on front cover. Interior tight and clean.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". Philosophy.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1945. First published as Question on the Encyclopedia, then reprinted as Reason by Alphabet, and finally reworked, with many additions, as The Philosophical Dictionary...The Philosophical Dictionary is Voltaire's principal essay in philosophy..." Contents go from A to Z with several entries for some "letters". Some include: Adam, Books, Celibacy; Divorce; Equality; Fraud; Greatness; Happiness;… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. One from The Pleasures of Life Series. Frontispiece color portrait of the author. 81 pp. Book is Very Good. Interior stamped with previous owner's name on title page and on one page's lower margin-not near text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Dust Jacket intact with chips/tears and some missing pieces around the… Read more about this item

Cambridge: The Science Company, 1884. Articles by Famous Americans: FREDERICK SCHWATKA: The Middle Yukon with 9 illustrations; in Letters to the Editor: G. BROWN GOODE: The invention of the vertical camera in photography with photo engraving illustration; and CHARLES C. ABBOTT: Hibernating mammals. Other articles: " The conic projection in oceanic cartography" with a North-Atlantic track-chart. " The Royal… Read more about this item

Commencing with Obituary Notice of William Watts Woodward who died, May 1st 1938. Disbound with Proceedings, Annual Report,etc. uncut pages. i-lii. string-tied. Very Good+. Date? 1938?. Paperbound. Very Good. Philosophy.

London: John Murray, 1843. The volumes cover: Literature of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1700; History of Theological Literature in Europe from 1520 to 1700; History of Speculative, Moral, and Political Philosophy, and of Jurisprudence, in Europe, from 1520 to 1700; History of the Literature of Taste in Europe from 1520 to 1550; Scientific and Miscellaneous Literature of Europe… Read more about this item