PHILOSOPHY / General from Barbara Bilson Books

1957. Very good (wrinkled cover, see scan). A collection of 100 sayings from the writings and talks of Gandhi, in English and Sanskrit on opposing pages (see scan). 107 pages including introduction and foreword. Pocket-sized, 4 x 5 3/4 inches. . Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 1916. Near fine (clean, solid, bright copy; offsetting from newspaper clipping on pages 168-9 but it is an interesting contemporary review from the New York Sun for 11/26/1916) in VG dust jacket (edgewear, some separating at folds, soiled or sunned spine, but still clean and intact with interesting quote from Edwin Markham). Not too often that you… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Fine in very good+ dust jacket (one small chip at top of back panel, and insect chewings at bottom of rear flap--critters now gone). Jacobson is the author of the Rape of Tamar, a short novel, and here turns his attention to the relationship between the Hebrew God and his chosen people, as spelled… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1941. Very good (offsetting at endpapers and sunned extremities) in very good dust jacket (sunned top edge and spine, price-clipped, and wear to top edges). Beautifully printed book on heavy paper with rough-cut page edges. 154 pages including index. A strange, wonderful combination of gardening and philosophy written for a troubled time. . 1st Edition.… Read more about this item

Cleveland: Corday & Gross, 1945. Second Printing, October 1945 (First printing May 1945). Beautifully illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Very good (worn at corners & spine top and bottom; gilt lettering intact but faded on spine, brighter but still somewhat rubbed on front cover) without dust jacket. Interesting primarily for the pairing of Kent's illustrations with this conservative philosophy… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1961. Near fine (only defect is ink inscription to previous owner) in very good dust jacket (worn, sunned). The book grew out of lectures Kaplan gave at UCLA in 1959-1960 on the "living movements in philosophy." Nine chapters. See scans for list of full contents. The author treats the philosophies with respect but also points out… Read more about this item

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001. As new without dust jacket as issued. Still in publisher's shrink wrap (see shrink wrap wrinkles in our scan; the shrink wrap is wrinkled, not the book). Ivanov was a Russian symbolist poet and philosopher. Translated from the Russian and with notes by Robert Bird who is a professor at the University of Chicago… Read more about this item