Philosophy from Berthoff Books

Oxford University Press, 1992. Soft cover. Good. 188 pages. Inaugural issue, Spring 1992, of Common Sense, a cross-disciplinary journal in the humanities. Thick journal, 6-7/8" x 10", reading crease and shelf wear including small loss patch along fore-edge near top. Critical marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits)… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1743 pages, plus 80 pages of front matter including an Introductory Survey by Harrold; also, Chronological Outline (1830-1901), biographical chronologies, Selected Bibliography. Excerpts from writings on philosophy, social sciences, science by an array of authors including Carlyle, Macauley, Cardinal Newman, John Stuart Mill, Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson. Text… Read more about this item

University of Toronto Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 191 pages, with index. Published as one of the Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication. A study of the making of meaning, with central attention to "the triadic semiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce [which] accounts for interpretation in logical terms: interpretation is a constituent of the sign".… Read more about this item

Routledge, 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 286 pages, with index, list of abbreviations used in catalogue of illustrations, catalogue of the 185 b&w illustrations compiled by Kristin Murphy. Foreword by John Fleming and Hugh Honour on how the book was complieted after the author's death. 185 b&w illustrations. "Symbolism could be defined as a philosophical… Read more about this item

Harper Torchbooks, 1957. Soft cover. Very Good. 312 pages. Winds of Doctrine is a collection of six essays on 19th-20th century issues in philosophy, including ones on Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, modernism, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Platonism and the Spiritual Life is a nearly 100-page essay. Trade paperback, sunned to brown on spine, light shelf wear, crease to front… Read more about this item

Henry Holt and Company, 1989. Soft cover. Good. 397 pages, with index and glossary of names. Translated from Czech by Paul Wilson, with his introduction and preface; also an author's preface for this first English paperback edition. Letters by Czech playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel, later President of the Czech Republic, to his wife - the… Read more about this item

Schiller Institute, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 562 pages. Translations include Wilhelm Tell, essays on aesthetics and on history, poems. Trade paperback, slight wear to corners, edges/end papers/page margins age-toned. Former owner's name written on ffep, interior pages unmarked.

The University of Chicago, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 228 pages. The inaugural issue of this academic thick journal. Includes Wayne C. Booth on Kenneth Burke and Burke's rejoinder; Quentin Bell "Art and the Elite"; Frank Kermode on novels; a story and essay about it by Eudora Welty. Trade paperback-sized, wraps worn especially with rubbing along spine, which is… Read more about this item

Urizen Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 88 pages, with Selected Bibliography of Criticism of Eugenio Montale's Works Published in Britain and the United States 1936-1969. Collection of short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature, first assembled in 1972. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, puce end papers, sharp corners and no… Read more about this item

W. W. Norton & Company, 1977. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. stated. 177 pages plus 21 front matter pages including Introduction (by the translator, covering Epicureanism and other philosophical and political context in which the poem was written) and Note on This Translation, with Brief Bibliography. Copley, Professor Emeritus of Latin at the University of Michigan,… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1978. Soft cover. Fair. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. Edited by G.E.M. Anscombe. 63 pages x 2 (same page number for facing DE and EN pages). Trade paperback, quite wavy and stiff from water damage, with stains to end papers, foxing to top edge, wear to corners of wraps. Name of former owner written on half-title… Read more about this item

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 142 pages. A Doubleday Anchor Original, translated from the Danish edition published 1962, being the first American edition. Includes Biographical Introduction. Mass-market paperback, spine sunned, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and… Read more about this item

The MIT Press, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 243 pages, with Index, Bibliographical Note, Notes on Contributors, among whom are Albrecht Wellmer, Juergen Habermas, Anthony Giddens, Martin Jay, Joel Whitebook, Richard Rorty, and Thomas McCarthy. Trade paperback, reading crease, crease across back cover near bottom, edges and page margins age-tanned, light wear to corners. Underscoring and/or… Read more about this item

Columbia University Press, 1939. Soft cover. Good. 67 pages, ith an introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler. Follows the text of the 1796 English edition. 5" x 7-3/8", card wraps, stapled through the text block only, darkened along spine. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his notes (made as a student) throughout.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 403 pages plus 57 front-matter pages. Edited and with an introduction by Ralph M. Eaton (Prof. of Philosophy, Harvard). The Modern Student's Library - Philosophy Series. Selections from a range of works on science and philosophical method (Discourse on Method; Meditations on the First Philosophy; Treatise on Man; others). 18mo (4-1/2"… Read more about this item

D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 84 pages. Translated with an Introduciton by Otto Manthey-Zorn. 12mo, dark blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, wear to bottom corners and heel, foxing to top edge. Underscoring and/or marginalia in red pencil by a (thoughtful) student throughout, and notes on ffep.

Harper Torchbooks, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 265 pages, with index and bibliography. First Harper TB edition, published 50 years after the book's first appearance, with a new preface by Jaroslav Pelikan. Trade paperback, spine age-tanned, minimal shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep and title page, his underscoring and/or marginalia on ffep… Read more about this item

Harper & Row, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 435 pages, with Index of Names, Index of Subjects, List of English Translations, Appendix of verses in German. "Being the translation of eleven chapters of Die Protestantische Theologie im 19. Jahrhundert", translation revised by H.H. Hartwell and the editorial staff of the SCM Press. Introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan. Chapters on Lessing, Kant,… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 556 pages, with index, preface, chronology of the life of William James, illustrated with b&w James family photos on four double-sided plates, facsimiles of two letters. Viking Compass edition of book first published 1967. Trade paperback, crease to front cover, light shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, page 365-6… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Company, 1938. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 717 pages, with index. Revised and enlarged edition (first was issued 1914). Prefaces to each edition by Prof. Coker (Yale), who wrote an introduction to the excerpts from each thinker, from Plato and other ancients, St. Augustine, through the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment, to Bentham. 8vo, gray… Read more about this item