PHILOSOPHY from Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)

Plato's Republic, Blackburn, Simon. Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 181pp. with index. Blue boards with gilt titles and black endpapers. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket. Books That Changed the World Series.

The Essential Colin Wilson, Wilson, Colin. Published by George G. Harrap & Co Ltd,, London, 1985. First Edition. 248pp. Black cloth boards. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket.

Beyond the Outsider: The Philosophy of the Future, Wilson, Colin. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965. First Edition. 236pp. Tan cloth covered boards with black spine titles, top edge orange. Volume is in fine, unread condition and housed in an unclipped jacket with very light shelf wear.

Cicero Orations, Cicero; translated by D. H. Berry. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2011. Translated with Introductions and Notes by D. H. Berry. Preface by Peter Stothard. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 397pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, indexed, color illustrations by Tom Phillips. Lilac cloth boards with gilt titles and borders, black and white onlay to front board and… Read more about this item

The Collected Letters of Alan Watts, Alan Watts, Anne Watts. Published by New World Library, United States, 2018. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 588pp. index, photos. Contents are in fine, unread, unmarked condition; top corner edge crease to front cover and tiny rub to lower corner. Philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and… Read more about this item

Twenty-Nine Essays, Michel de Montaigne, selected and introduced by Mortimer J. Adler; translated by Donald M. Frame; illustrated by Carol Wald. Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1982. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., 482pp. with illustrations. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt decoration front and spine, gilt edges. In fine, unmarked, unread condition.

Dimensions of Baha'i Law, Danesh, Roshan. Published by Baha'i Publishing, USA, 2019. Card covers. 286pp. with index. Inscription to dedication page from Mary Danesh. Contents are otherwise in fine, unread condition; card covers have very light shelf wear. Organized around four distinct areas—Baha'u'llah's conception of law itself, the constitutional dimensions of the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah's theory of social change… Read more about this item

Pig City Model Farm: A Handbook on Architecture and Agriculture Kovitz, Rob. Published by Treyf/Coach House Press, Toronto, 1992. Card covers. Non paginated, includes black and white photograsm graphic and illustrations, notes and appendices. Light shelf wear to card covers, contents are in fine condition without marks, tears or folds. "If we could suddenly see this arranged order as it will… Read more about this item

Two Cheers for Democracy, Forster, E. M. Published by Edward Arnold & Company, London, 1951. First Edition. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 372pp. Book review and newspaper clipping laid in. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles, red top edge. Pencilled name and date to endpaper, toning to endpapers and light toning to text block; otherwise, contents are in fine condition.… Read more about this item

William James: Selected Writings, William James. Introductory essay by Robert Coles. Published by Book of the Month Club, New York, 1997. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 549 pp. Quarter black cloth over blue paper, gilt spine, blue endpapers.A series of twenty lectures on Psychology, Human Behavior and Personality, Pragmatism, Religion, Neurology, the Sick Soul, the Divided Self, Conversion, Saintliness, Mysticism,… Read more about this item

The Classics and The Man of Letters: The Presidential Address delivered to the Classical Association on 15th April 1942, T.S. Eliot, Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto, 1942. First Edition; early printing (see Donald Gallup A40). 12mo up to 7½" tall., 27pp. Light blue, yapped-edge card covers with black titles front; sewn binding with two sewn signatures. Contents in… Read more about this item

The Odyssey of Homer, Homer, Butcher, S.H. And Lang, A. (Translated by) Charles W. Eliot (editor). Published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York, 1968, 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 334 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition as per spine. Green faux leather with gilt decorative borders and colophon front… Read more about this item

Essays English and American (Thackeray, Newman, Ruskin, Huxley, Thoreau and Others (The Harvard Classics) Thackeray; Newman; Ruskin; Huxley; Thoreau et al. Eliot, Charles W. (Editor); Published by P. F. Collier & Son, 1968. 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 420 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition as per spine. Green faux leather with… Read more about this item

Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne (The Harvard Classics), Charles W. Eliot (editor). Published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York, 1968, 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 332 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition… Read more about this item

A Dictionary of Quotations from Authors Old and New, Together with an Alphabet of Proverbs, Volume I and II, Moorhead, J K; Lee, Charles (Editor Ernest Rhys). Everyman Series 809/810. Published by J M Dent & Sons Ltd; Dutton and Sons, New York. Circa 1928. 16mo up to 6½" tall., xvi, 380; viii, 425 pages. Maroon silky cloth, gilt… Read more about this item

935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral IntegrityLewis, Charles, Published by PublicAffairs, New York, 2014. First Edition.Quarter black over white boards, red spine titles. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 364 pages including index. Volume in unread condition; light crease to lower front of unclipped dustjacket which is otherwise fine.

True to Life; Why Truth Matters, Lynch, MIchael P. Published by MIT Press, Cambridge and London, 2004. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 204 pages including index. beige cloth boards with silver spine titles. Both jacket and volume in new, unread condition.

Bricks to Babel: Selected Writings with Comments by the Author, Koestler, Arthur. Published by Hutchinson & Co 1980. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Pp.697. Black boards with gilt spine titles. Both volume and unclipped dustjacket (protected in mylar) are in mint condition. Arthur Koestler, CBE was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Bricks to Babel is a collection compiled… Read more about this item

Sartre, Grene, Marjorie. Published by New Viewpoints / Franklin Watts, 1973. First Issue soft cover. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 301 pages Card covers and spine have creases; contents in pristine condition. This is an extensive study of Sartre as philosopher and writer by American philosopher Marjorie Glicksman Grene (1910-2009). Grene wrote on existentialism and the philosophy of science… Read more about this item

The Trial of Socrates, Stone, I. F. Published by Little, Brown & Company, 1988. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 282 pages including index. Quarter grey cloth over gray paper covered boards. Volume in fine condition; clipped dustjacket has light edge wear with a small closed tear back tail edge. Combines classical scholarship with techniques of modern investigative journalism in an… Read more about this item