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Roland Barthes | Michelet | Basil Blackwell | 1987 | 9780631156352 Minor wear to cover, price label on front cover, spine lightly sunned, outer edge of page-block foxed & dust-marked, lower corner a liitle bowed, text pages in very good condition. | £25
Jean Baudrillard | The Evil Demon of Images | Power Publications | 1988 | 0909952078 Edges of cover are damp-marked, which is also faintly evident on outer edges of endpapers. Top edge of page-block foxed. | £40
E. M. Cioran, Richard Howard | Anathemas and Admirations | Quartet | 1992 | evidently secondhand copy with creased spine, worn cover & edge, light fading to spine & edge of cover, paper tanned with age, text pages unmarked | £40
Benedetto Croce; Cecil Spragge [tr.] | Philosophy Poetry History – An Anthology of Essays | Oxford | 1966 | Text pages are in very good condition, but jacket is worn with tears to its edges, & the boards underneath are lightly marked. | £75
Fred Dallmayr | The Other Heidegger | Cornell | 1993 | 9780801429095 Unread copy with light external wear from previous storage/display. | £15
Wayne A. Davis | Nondescriptive Meaning and Reference | Clarendon Press Oxford | 2005 | 9780199261659 Light wear from previous storage/display. | £17.50
Walter Eisenbeis | The Key Ideas of Martin Heidegger’s Treatise Being and Time | University Press of America | 1983 | 0819130095 No jacket, cloth cover a little rubbed at edges of spine. | £100
Michel Foucault; Meaghan Morris & Paul Patton (eds) | Power, Truth, Strategy | Feral | 1979 | 0959614311 Cover worn, most evidently on spine. Diagonal crease across p.63, with a short tear in the upper margin. The crease itself is also evident on pp.53-64 &, faintly, on the preceding pages. | £30.00
Anne Freadman | The Machinery of Talk | Stanford | 2004 | 9780804747400 Light wear to cover & edge. | £20.00
R. Buckminster Fuller | No More Secondhand God | Southern Illinois UP | 1967 | Some external wear, text pages in very good condition. | £25
Baltasar Gracian; L. B. Walton (tr., intr.) | The Oracle | Dent | 1953 | Parallel text of this boundlessly useful book. Boards are rather worn & marked, name on ffep, blotchy foxing to prelims. Text pages in very good condition. | £40
Songsuk Susan Hahn | Contradiction in Motion | Cornell | 2007 | 9780801444449 Unread copy with light external wear from previous storage/display. | £20.00
Roy Harris | Saussure and his Interpreters | Edinburgh | Second edition – unread copy with light wear from storage/display | £25.00
G. W. F. Hegel | System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit | State University of New York Press | 1979 | 87395386X No jacket, corners of boards bumped, light foxing to outer edge of page-block. | £200
Dale Jacquette | The Philosophy of Mind | Continuum | 2009 | 9780826499172 Unread copy with some external wear from previous storage/display. No jacket, edge of page-block foxed. Text pages in very good condition. | £30
René Marill-Albérès | Jean-Paul Sartre: Philosopher without Faith | Merlin | – | No jacket. | £25
Mary Margaret McCabe | Plato’s Individuals | Princeton | some marginal marking, edge rather worn | £24
Marshall McLuhan | Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations | Something Else Press | 1967 | Corners of book rather bowed, outer edge of page-block foxed, binding crinkled on spine, spine sunned, old price sticker inside front cover. Text pages in very good condition. | £50
G. E. Moore | Philosophical Studies | Routledge | – | 9780415613842 unread ex-shop display copy with very light external wear | £25
Trevor Pateman | Studies in Pragmatics | Degree Zero | 2017 | 9780993587931 Apparently unread copy in jacket. | £20
Theodore Scaltsas & Andrew S. Mason | The Philosophy of Epictetus | Oxford | hardback in unclipped jacket | £20
Georg Simmel; K. Peter Etzkorn (tr., intr.) | The Conflict in Modern Culture and Other Essays | Teachers College Press | 1968 | Hardback in price-clipped jacket. Jacket is worn at edges, with some loss, & heavily foxed. The book itself is considerably more prepossessing, apart from some blotchy foxing on the upper edge of the page-block. | £100
Georg Simmel; Kurt H. Wolff (ed.) | Simmel: Essays on Sociology, Philosophy and Aesthetics | Harper & Row | 1965 | Rebound book in lightly marked boards. Trace of a label on the spine. Internally clean, with no indications of library or institutional ownership. Approx 250pp of writing on Simmel, & a further 120pp of translations of his writings. | £30
Robert L. Wilken | John Chrysostom and the Jews | California | 1983 | 0520047575 Hardback in unclipped jacket. Smallish tea or coffee splash on reverse of jacket, does not show through. Foxing to edge & endpapers. Lower corner of pageblock a little bumped. A perfectly serviceable, but unmistakably secondhand, copy. | £25
Ludwig Wittgenstein; D. F. Pears & B. F. McGuinness (trs); Bertrand Russell (intr.) | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | Routledge and Kegan Paul | 1963 | Second impression of the second English translation of the Tractatus in unclipped jacket. Jacket is worn, with short splits & some loss, at the extremities of the spine & the extremities of the folds of the flaps. Some marks to pale back cover. Top edge of front panel bumped. Edge of page-block foxed. Name on ffep, brief ink note on rear endpaper. | £25
Gideon Yaffe | Manifest Activity | Clarendon Press Oxford | 2007 | 9780199228034 Unread copy with very light external wear from previous storage/display. | £15
Janos Zsilka | Sentence Patterns and Reality | Mouton | 1973 | Some wear to cover & edge. Sewn book opens hard at p.159, with a corresponding crease to the spine. No problem with text pages. | £25.00
