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First Edition of Louis Menand's Pulitzer Prize-winning Work The Metaphysical Club; Inscribed by Him To Edward O. Wilson
MENAND, Louis.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow Pulitzer Prize award winning author Edward O. Wilson, "For Edward with best wishes Louis Menand." Wilson's signature to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell. An exceptional association copy.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 111949
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“The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux": First Edition of Autobiography of A Yogi; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
YOGANANDA, Paramhansa.
Autobiography of a Yogi.
New York: The Philosophical Library, 1946.
First edition of one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Preface by Walter Evans-Wentz. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 130643
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Scarce first English edition of Leo Tolstoy's Patriotism and Christianity
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Patriotism and Christianity.
London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1896.
First English edition of Tolstoy's important work on non-resistance. Octavo, original cloth. With a note to English readers by John C. Kenworthy. Scarce.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 127590
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"We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about": First edition of Edgar Schein's Coercive Persuasion; inscribed by him
SCHEIN, Edgar H. with Inge Schneier and Curtis H. Barker.
Coercive Persuasion: A Socio-psychological Analysis of the “Brainwashing” of American Civilian Prisoners by the Chinese Communists.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1961.
First edition of Schein's analysis of the socio-psychological effects of "brainwashing" on American POWs during the Korean War. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page, "We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about. Ed Schein Author of Humble Inquiry." In very good condition with underlining in pencil.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 141036
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First Edition of Alvin Plantinga's The Nature of Necessity; Signed by Him
PLANTINGA, Alvin.
The Nature of Necessity.
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1974.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alvin Plantinga on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 139212
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Peter Drucker's Landmark Work Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices; Inscribed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition, early printing of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack Nold with warmest regards Peter F. Drucker." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, date to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Roy La Grone. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 142075
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“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be": Finely Bound By Bayntun of Thomas a Kempis' The Imitation of Christ
A KEMPIS, Thomas.
The Imitation of Christ.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1908.
Finely bound example of a Kempis' classic work. Octavo, bound in morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt doublures, illustrated including color plates by Flint. Translated from the Latin by Richard Wbytford and then re-edited into modern English by Wilfrid Raynal. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 120987
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FIRST EDITION OF LANGUAGE AND MIND; SIGNED BY NOAM CHOMSKY
CHOMSKY, Noam.
Language and Mind.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1968.
First edition of this groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in, in near fine condition, small name.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 110549
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First Edition of the Author’s Prophetic Book The Coming of Post Industrial Society; Inscribed by Daniel Bell in the year of Publication
BELL, Daniel.
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting.
New York: Basic Books, 1973.
First edition of this insightful work which speaks about the coming of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Anne- newer and sharper fondly Dan Bell Chilmark, July 13, 1973." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jacqueline Schuman.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 4497
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Finely Bound Example of Strabonis Geographia cum notis Casauboni et aliorum
STRABONIS,.
Strabonis Geographia cum notis Casauboni et aliorum.
Amstelaedami; Joannem Wolters, 1707.
Folio, bound in half morocco over cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 3604
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“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books": First Edition of Go Ask Alice; in the rare original dust jacket
ANONYMOUS. [SPARKS, Beatrice].
Go Ask Alice.
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1971.
First edition of the classic work that has sold millions of copies. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Nena Allen. First editions are rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 136990
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“Education is the movement from darkness to light": The Closing of the American Mind; Inscribed by Allan Bloom
BLOOM, Allan; Foreword by Saul Bellow.
The Closing of the American Mind.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
First edition, early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard A. Ware, One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully, Allan Bloom September, 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation, which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 22016
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First Edition of John Milnor's From the Differentiable Viewpoint; Signed by Him
MILNOR, John W.
From the Differentiable Viewpoint.
Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1965.
First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original. Boldly signed by John Milnor on the title page. Based on notes by David W. Weaver. Fine in the original glassine jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141351
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“Whatever the “real” differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike": First Edition of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics; Inscribed by Her
MILLETT, Kate.
Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970.
First edition of the author's landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Kate Millett for Prof Roger Simpson." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. With some underlining in pencil to a few pages. Jacket typography by Gina Rosencrantz.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 100034
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Inscribed by Him
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985.
First edition of this work on innovation by the most influential management thinker ever. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Keith Stephens from Peter F. Drucker." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 26011
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First Edition of Thomas Szasz's Law, Liberty and Psychiatry; From the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan
SZASZ, Thomas S. [James M. Buchanan].
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.
First edition of this classic work, from the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan with his signature to the front free endpaper. Buchanan was an economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962, The Calculus of Consent, then developed over decades for which he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' and bureaucrats' self-interest, utility maximization, and other non-wealth-maximizing considerations affect their decision-making. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ward and Saks.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133734
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"Consider the lilies in the field... make them the object not of a fleeting glance in passing, but of thy consideration": First English edition of Søren Kierkegaard's Consider The Lilies
KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie.
Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.
London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1940.
First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard's important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A superior example of this rare work.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133137
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Thomas Leland's Translation of The Orations of Demosthenes; bound in full early 19th century calf
DEMOSTHENES. TRANSLATED BY THOMAS LELAND,.
The Orations of Demosthenes: Pronounced to Excite Athenians Against Philip, King of Macedon. Translated by Thomas Leland, D. D.
London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1806.
Finely bound example of Leland's translation of the Orations of Demosthenes. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In fine condition. Rare and desirable bound in early 19th century calf.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 123088
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Palm Leaf Manuscript
Palm Leaf Manuscript.
Very attractive palm leaf book in East Asian script (possibly Burmese). Approximately 159 palm leaves between two wooden covers with beveled edges, loosely bound with a cord, with a medallion at each end. Each leaf approximately 1.25 inches by 13.5 inches, with manuscript in black ink on rectos and versos of each leaf, initial and final leaves blank. 19th century.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 52015
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Scarce first English edition of Leo Tolstoy's Patriotism and Christianity
TOLSTOY, Leo.
Patriotism and Christianity.
London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1896.
First English edition of Tolstoy's important work on non-resistance. Octavo, original cloth. With a note to English readers by John C. Kenworthy. In very good condition with some toning to the spine. Scarce.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 146054
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First Edition of Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons
PARFIT, Derek.
Reasons and Persons.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,150.00 Item Number: 114653
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First Edition of Lincoln Barnett's The Universe and Dr. Einstein; Warmly Inscribed by Him
BARNETT, Lincoln; Foreword by Albert Einstein.
The Universe and Dr. Einstein.
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948.
First edition of this work praised by Einstein himself. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Anthony Sadoro. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author to Anne Goodman on the front free endpaper, "For Anne Goodman- who was on the receiving end of the first interview this reporter ever gave and the pleasantest one he ever participated in- Gratefully Lincoln Barnett New York City- March 3, 1949." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by William Meek. Foreword by Albert Einstein. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,150.00 Item Number: 133464
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"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals": First Edition of Felix Frankfurter Reminisces; Warmly Inscribed by Him
FRANKFURTER, Felix.
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces: Recorded in Talks With Dr. Harlan B. Phillips.
New York: Reynal & Company, 1960.
First edition of this collection of thoughts from Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Leonard Maill, who helped confirm my anglophilism, with the warm regards of Felix Frankfurter July 19, 60." The recipient, Rowland Leonard Maill, was a BBC broadcaster and administrator. Bookplate of the recipient. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Books signed by Frankfurter are uncommon.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 59088
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First Edition of Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons
PARFIT, Derek.
Reasons and Persons.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,050.00 Item Number: 138268
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First Edition of Irvin D. Yalom's Inpatient Group Psychotherapy; Inscribed by Him
YALOM, Irvin D.
Inpatient Group Psychotherapy.
New York: Basic Books, 1983.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Pat Irvin D. Yalom." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 141494
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Rare First Edition of Merer Baba's God to Man An Man To God
BABA, Meher.
God to Man And Man To God.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955.
First edition of this work by Meher Baba. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by C.B. Purdom.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117989
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First edition in English of Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id; Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
FREUD, Sigmund.
The Ego and the Id.
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927.
Rare first edition in English of Freud's classic study of the human psyche. Octavo, original cloth. Authorized translation by Joan Riviere. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, embossed stamp to the title page and table of contents.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146296
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“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck": Annie Dillard's Pilgrim At Tinker Creek; Signed by Her
DILLARD, Annie.
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek.
New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.
First edition, early printing of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Annie Dillard on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheila Berger. Line drawing by Annie Dillard.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134771
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First Modern Library Edition of John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct; Signed by Him
DEWEY, John.
Human Nature and Conduct.
New York: The Modern Library, 1930.
First Modern Library edition of Dewey's important work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Dewey on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Books signed by Dewey are scarce.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 74075
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"A Man is seldom moved to praise what he loves until it has been attacked": First edition of C.S. Lewis' Rehabilitations and Other Essays
LEWIS, C.S.
Rehabilitations and Other Essays.
London: Oxford University Press, 1939.
First edition of one of Lewis' earliest and most substantial books of essays. Octavo, original cloth, top edge black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 131228
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The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge; Signed and dated by Him
AYER, Alfred J. [A.J.].
The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge.
London : Macmillan & Co, 1962.
Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "with best wishes A.J. Ayer Mexico City September 11 1963." In very good condition. From the library of Sergio Munoz, who was a friend of the author. Books signed by Ayer are scarce.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133103
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Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Inadequacy; Signed by Both
MASTERS, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson.
Human Sexual Inadequacy.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Masters and Johnson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Emery based on a design by George Price. We have never encountered another signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117478
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Alfred J. Ayer's Philosophical Essays; Signed by Him
AYER, Alfred J. [A.J.].
Philosophical Essays.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1963.
Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "with best wishes A.J. Ayer September 15, 1963 Mexico City." In very good condition. From the library of Sergio Munoz, who was a friend of the author. Books signed by Ayer are scarce.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133105
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"But the main thing in view all along has been to vindicate the moral character of the Deity from the injurious representations, either of designing, or well-meaning but mistaken men" First edition of James Dana's Second response to Jonathan Edwards' The Freedom of the Will
DANA, James (Jonathan Edwards).
The “Examination of the Late Rev’d President Edwards’s Enquiry on Freedom of Will,” Continued.
New Haven: Printed for Thomas and Samuel Green, 1773.
First edition of American Protestant clergyman James Dana's second published response to Jonathan Edwards' Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will, preceded by Dana's prior examination of the same subject published anonymously in 1770. Octavo, original three-quarter period calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, morocco spine labels, raised bands. A rare and desirable example illustrating the tensions that shaped the Evangelical Revival in eighteenth century America.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 82405
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First Edition of Will Durant's The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny; Inscribed by him
DURANT, Will.
The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929.
First edition of Durant's "attempt at a consistent philosophy of life." Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Stanley Bauman Sincerely Will Durant Buffalo Aug. 19, 1935." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 124919
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"Consider the lilies in the field... make them the object not of a fleeting glance in passing, but of thy consideration": First English edition of Søren Kierkegaard's Consider The Lilies
KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie.
Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.
London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1940.
First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard's important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144009
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First Edition of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics; Inscribed by Her
MILLETT, Kate.
Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970.
First edition of the author's landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Kate Millett on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket typography by Gina Rosencrantz.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 46008
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First edition of Hilary Putnam's Ethics Without Ontology; Inscribed by Him
PUTNAM, Hilary.
Ethics Without Ontology.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
First edition of this work on ontology by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For John Hilary Putnam April 4, '15." Name to the front free endpaper, fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 68341
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First Edition of Berger and Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
BERGER, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann.
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966.
First edition of one of the most important sociological texts of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Norman Ives.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 102244
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Robert Trivers' The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism; inscribed by him
TRIVERS, Robert L.
The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism.
Cambridge, Mass.: Reprinted from The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1971.
First appearance of Trivers' enormously influential first published paper, written while he was still earning his PhD at Harvard under Bayr and Drury in which he coined the term "reciprocal altruism" as well as "delayed return altruism." Octavo, disbound from the original journal. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel, "To Jeff Kurland, a little something I thought you might enjoy. Bob." The recipient, Jeffrey A. Kurland, was a distinguished professor of biological anthropology and evolution at Penn State. In fine condition. With Kurland's Peabody Museum, Harvard University ownership stamp. Small tape repair to the front panel.…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136255