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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Quarter green cloth, blue paper boards. ix, 268 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine with mild sunning to top edges. In about fine jacket with some slight sunning to spine and bumping to edges. Part travelogue, part meditiation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today. Ranging from the elevated Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, to the living rooms of the Mexican elite, to the streets of Manila, Lingis recounts incidents of state-sponsored violence and the progressive incorporation of third-world peoples into the circuits of exchange of international capitalism.

St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 5" x 8" Soft cover.xiii, 198 pp. A few small black marker stains to fore edge of text block, light curling to corners, else fine. Although other Aikido books talk about centering, harmony, conflict resolution, and internal energy, this book is the first to present lessons designed to draw you into a sensory experience of these concepts, felt in the present moment.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. [10],11-160 p.p. Jacket worn at edges, extremities with small chips to spine ends. Some sporadic stains to rear cover. Inner front flap price clipped. Top-edge of inner flaps sunned. Light rubbing to boards, spine ends. Bottom corners bruised. Some staining to endpapers. Otherwise interior clean, and in very good condition.

London: The Scholartis Press, 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Title on spine in gilt. 163 p.p. Text in greek, with facing translation in English. Watermark of a ship and waves on verso of title page. Some trimming to bottom pages, but text unaffacted. Some yellowing to pages. Rubbing to spine and edges. Corners and slightly bumped with sporadic scratches to boards. Previous pencil notes faded on rear pastedown endpapers, otherwise near fine.

California: Celestial Arts, 1975. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. ix, 169 p.p. Paper. Wear to boards and extremities. Interior clean. Overall, a very good copy of book. This book takes readers through a journey of philosophy and space.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black cloth. 156 pp. [3] B&W plates, B&W illustrations in text. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Sporadic pencil notation and marginalia. Dust jacket is sunned and worn to extremities, chipping to spine ends.

New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1964. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 199 pp. Age toning to covers (worse at rear), creasing and original price crossed out with marker to upper corner of front cover.

New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 4.25" x 6.75" Soft cover. xii, 419 pp. Damp staining to spine head, wear to head of front cover, some creasing to rear.

Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Soft cover. 267 pp. Bump to fore edge of front cover, sunning to spine. Fine overall. "[Sorabji] starts...by examining philosophical treatments of animals in ancient Greece. From there he goes on to current thinking and argues that the animal rights movement is philosophically incoherent. His philosophical analysis is so thorough that anyone who's thinking abaout these issues has an obligation to read this book." - Vicki Hearne (from rear cover).

Kandy, Sri Lanka (Ceylon): Buddhist Publication Society, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. The Wheel Publication No. 183/184/185. Cream card wraps with red and orange, sewn binding. [6], 119 p.p., [3 p.p., incl. select readings and errata]. Wraps are sunned to extremities, bumpted at spine ends and corners, light rubbing to rear joint and small stain to head of rear cover. The Samyutta Nikaya is one of the five great divisions of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon, the Ti Pitaka or "Three Baskets" of the doctrine, consituting the Buddhist Word for Theravada Buddhism.

New York: University Books, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Full green cloth. 168 pp. Damp stain to top edge. Ink ownership stamp to ffep. Dust jacket is rubbed and worn, damp stained.

Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. Classics Club. Orig. grey cloth. xxxviii, 441 pp. Spine slightly sunned. Else fine.

Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 18mo. Classics Club. Orig. grey cloth. xxxviii, 441 pp. Spine slightly sunned. Acidification from removed tape to endpapers.

Lansing, MI: Self Published, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. red cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine and front board. Floral endpapers. x, 337 pp. [30] B&W plates + one B&W portrait in text. Sunning to spine, rubbing to extremities, some soiling and staining to boards. Crack to inner hinge at flyleaf.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full cream cloth. x, 188 pp. Spine slightly tilted, small bump to fore edge of text block. Light bumps to top edges of dust jacket. Else fine. Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home?" Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer to this question might lead to a new way of thinking about home and homelessness, exile and belonging. At Home in the World is the story of just such a seach. Intermittently, over a period of three years, Michael Jackson lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Central Australia. This book chronicles his experience among the Walpiri of the Tanami Desert.

New York: Signet Books, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. 50th Anniversary Edition. Glossy pictorial paper boards. 1079 pp. Lightly bumped and worn at corners, else fine. The astounding story of a man who said that hew ould stop the motor of the world - and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read. It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder - and rebirth - of a man's spirit.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Three books bound as one. An Attic Philosopher (1853): viii, 144 p.p. The Leipsic Campaign (1852): viii, 128 p.p. Schamyl (1854): vii, 144 p.p. Includes appendix. Half-bound in brown morocco with marbled paper boards. Light wear to spine ends, corners, and edges of boards. Chafing to paper boards. Gilt titling to spine. Marbled edges. Some foxing and staining throughout, a few annotations, a few tears to pages at tail edge and creased corners. Ink ownership inscription and stamps to title pages. Damp stain to rear hinge. Binding tight and square. Souvestre was a minor French novelist of the 1830s, in whom, according to Saintsbury, "the moral heresy, of which he was supposed to be a secretary, certainly did not corrupt the tale-telling gift". This work, published in France as "Un Philosophe sous les Toits", was one of his best, giving amongst much else, a lively description of Paris at the time. The author calls this his… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The First Reith Lectures for 1948-9. Orig. green cloth boards. 125 pp. Spine tilted, foxing to cloth. Dust jacket is sunned and rubbed to extremities, open tears to head of rear cover.

Toronto: The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1979. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Edited from Bibliotheque Nationale Ms. Latin 16098. Soft cover. 113 pp. Rubbing and creasing to extremities. Some damp staining to fore edge.

Gardeny City, NY: Halcyon House, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. tan cloth. xvii, 314 pp. Minor bruising to spine ends. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Dust jacket is chipped to extremities, cropped to flaps, a few short tears with acidified tape reinforcement, rubbed to front cover, sunned to spine, tear to foot of front joint.