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[Geneva]: Henr. Stephani, 1578. First Edition. vellum. Very good. The STEPHANUS Plato The Book That Established the UNIVERSAL REFERENCE System for Platos Writings PLATO. Platonis opera quae extant omnia. (The Complete Works of Plato) [Title also in Greek], Henr. Stephani, [Geneva], 1578. First Greek/Latin Edition. Volume 1: TP + 16 unnumbered leaves [handwritten replacement preliminaries circa 18th c = Dedication to Queen Elizabeth + Studioso Lectori + Platone Epigrammata] + Catalogus Dialogorum + half title (with first page of text - unnumbered - on the verso) + 1 469 + 471 + 471 542. Volume 2: Half-title + blank leaf lettered AA.i. + 3 unnumbered leaves [printed replacement preliminaries circa 18th c. = Dedication to King James the Sixth of Scotland (later James the First of England) + Two Poems] + 3-701 + 672 673 + 704 992. Volume 3: Half-title + 3 unnumbered leaves [handwritten replacement preliminaries circa 18th c. = Dedication to the Republic of Bern + Poem] + AAAA.i. = Contents Page… Read More

Frankfurt/Main: Postverlagsort, 1969. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. PLATONOV, Andrei, [Foundation Pit] in [Grani] #70, Postverlagsort, Frankfurt/Main, February 1969. TP + [3] - 216. Octavo. FIRST APPEARANCE. The first appearance of The Foundation Pit. The story appears on pages 3 - 107 of Grani and illustrates the experiences of forced collectivization under Stalin. “Enthusiasts of a world commune plan to build a home for the world proletariat, a kind of socialist paradise [the Crystal Palace as envisioned by Nikolai Chernyshevsky in What Is To Be Done?]. But in fact they are merely digging a pit, a huge common grave for mankind of the future, because from its very inception the idea of this mad utopia is based on violence and death to those who are called ‘bourgeois,’ ‘kulaks,’ ‘kulaks’ helpers,’ etc., in the name of those who are declared ‘bearers of class truth’” (Handbook of Russian Literature, p. 342). While much of the “action” occurs within the consciousnesses… Read More

Paris: YMCA Press, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. PLATONOV, Andrei, [Chevengur], YMCA Press, Paris, 1972. 1 blank leaf + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = photo + 9 - 375. Small octavo. FIRST EDITION. First written in 1928, but only published in fragments prior to 1972, Chevengur stands as Platonov’s longest and most significant text and tells the story of the failed efforts to establish Communism within a small, rural community during War Communism and Lenin’s New Economic Policy of the 1920s. Platonov presents this transitional generation as “imperfect human beings, insufficiently prepared for life under Communism… yielding their place to future generations who will ultimately resurrect them… Platonov’s novel has a very pessimistic ending… The author seems to be asking the question: who, then, will live and resurrect the ancestors in the future city of the Sun?” (Handbook of Russian Literature, p. 341). Part of what is considered by some to be Platonov’s philosophical trilogy,… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955. First Edition. Publisher's cloth. Very good. PRIOR, A. N., Formal Logic, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955. TP + [v] - vi = preface + [vii] - ix = contents + 1 - 329. Octavo. First edition. The first New Zealand-born logician, Prior was the founding father of logic in New Zealand and also a driving force behind the renaissance in British logic from 1956 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). CONDITION: Very good in publisher's blue cloth PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST