THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
(1963)
Scarce first US edition — and first edition in English — of this foundational anti-colonial text by a Black psychiatrist — from the collection of acclaimed novelist Larry McMurtry, with his bookplate.
Philosophy
MEN IN DARK TIMES
(1968)
Scarce inscribed first edition of this "1968 collection of essays that [has] grown all the more timely and radiant" (Maria Popova) from the influential philosopher, historian, and political theorist.
THE POSTMODERN SCENE: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics
(1986)
First edition, review copy of this work of collected theories covering "key artistic and intellectual tendencies in the postmodern condition."
STIFFED: THE BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN MAN
(1999)
Inscribed first printing of this reflection of the effects of a culture of toxic masculinity on individual men, and how that in turn shapes the American landscape.
HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
(1997)
Signed first US edition of Botton's popular literary biography cum self-help guide which humorously offers everyday life advice using the life and work of Marcel Proust.
FROM DEATH-CAMP TO EXISTENTIALISM: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy [Man's Search for Meaning]
(1959)
Rare first English-language edition of Frankl's classic presentation of logotherapy, now best known by its later title, MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING.
AXIOMS OF KWAMA NKRUMAH
(1967)
First edition of this collection of brief excerpts and aphorisms from this Pan-Africanist who "remains one of the most influential figures in [...] colonial and post‑colonial history" (Matteo Grilli).
HOME LIFE : What It Is, and What It Needs
1864
First edition of this Civil War-era patriarchal approach to domestic sciences, emphasizing the exercise of authority for the smooth running of a home, while also praising parental collaboration.
THE HYSTERICAL MALE: new feminist theory
(1991)
Inscribed first edition of this collection of critical feminist theory essays, with sections devoted to "Sacrificial Sex," "Mirror of Seduction" and "Phallus of Malice."
DOPPLEGANGER: A Trip Into the Mirror World
(2023)
Signed first edition of this bestselling philosophical memoir of identity and misinformation in the digital age.
THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO
1892
Handsome set of Jowett's Plato in beautifully preserved Rivière & Son half morocco bindings.
![Item #53048 SELECTAE DEMOSTHENIS ORATIONES [Selected Orations of Demosthenes]. Demosthenes](https://typepunchmatrix.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53048_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732731719)
SELECTAE DEMOSTHENIS ORATIONES [Selected Orations of Demosthenes]
1672
Restoration-era pocket edition of this popular collection of speeches from the renowned ancient Greek orator — with text in both Latin and Greek for the 17th-century British student.
BLACK BOURGEOISIE
(1957)
First US edition of this controversial landmark study on the African-American middle class by the first Black president of the American Sociological Association — an especially nice copy.
DE OFFICIIS; DE SENECTUTE; DE AMICITIA; PARADOXA; SOMNIUM SCIPIONIS
1625
Gorgeous miniature edition of this collection of philosophical classics by the great Roman lawyer and statesman.
THE PSYCHOLOGY AND STRATEGY OF GANDHI'S NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE
1929
Rare first edition of this early work on Gandhi's anti-colonial resistance — by an American follower who would himself become an important influence on Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr.
VIRTUTUM ENCOMIA
1573
First edition of this pocket collection of quotations from classical philosophers, political leaders, poets, and playwrights.
THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH
(1963)
Scarce first US edition of this foundational anti-colonial text by a Black psychiatrist — this copy once owned by Dorris Funnye Innis, a writer and editor for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
HUNDERT SENTENZEN
1827
Pocket collection of religious maxims by the charismatic Swiss poet, theologian, public intellectual, one-time friend of Goethe, and "one of the most celebrated and influential literary characters of his time" (Julian, 666).
SEXUAL PERSONAE
(1990)
Inscribed first edition of this unlikely bestseller that made Paglia one of the most prominent and provocative cultural critics of the 1990s.
THEOSOPHY
1910
Scarce first US edition of Steiner's major work on "the regions of the supersensible world," originally published in German in 1904, translated here into English from the text of the third German edition by Elizabeth Douglas Shields.
THE GOLD COAST AND THE SLUM: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side
(1930)
Third printing of this study on Chicago's North Side and its diverse but socially distanced communities.
THE COMING OF POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
(1973)
Signed first edition of this prescient classic — inscribed in the year of publication to fellow sociologist George Homans.
SEARCH FOR LIBERATION
1981
First printing of this collection of interviews and introductory essays on Hare Krishna, published in the immediate wake of John Lennon's death.
THE NEW REVELATION
1918
First publication in book form of Doyle's fervent argument for the authenticity of Spiritualist mediumship, contact with the dead, poltergeist hauntings, and other phenomena investigated by the Society for Psychical Research.
DE RERUM NATURA, ETC
[circa 1935]
Mock-epic manuscript in six cantos, offering meticulously footnoted anonymous rhyming invective against the New Deal, the Nietszschian Superman, and the unappreciative American publishing industry.
