1. Aherne, C.D. [from Flaxfort House in Little Island, Cork] / [O’Rahilly, Professor Alfred]

Professor O’Rahilly – Illusionist.

Cork / Dublin / Essex, Columbian Press, 1941. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. 16 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Staples rusted and minor foxing to endpapers only. Rare !

2. Barrett, William.

What is Existentialism ?

Partisan Review, 1947. 8°. 63 pages. Softcover. Original printed wrappers. Binding stained with small tear. Some staining to a few pages. [PR Series – Number Two]

3. Bemis, George.

Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney General of England in the british Commons, May 13,1864.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1864. 8°. VIII, 83 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Unopened. Upper corner dogeared. Elswise very good plus.

4. Berger, Peter / Kellner, Hansfried.

Marriage and the Construction of Reality – An exercise in the Microsociology of Knowledge.

Diogenes, [1964]. 8°. 24 pages. Softcover. Offprint from “Diogenes 46” (1964). Some stains within text.

5. Berger, Peter L.

Towards a Sociological Understanding of Psychoanalysis.

Social Research, 1965. 8°. 35 pages. Softcover. First Edition Offprint from “Social Research” – Spring 1965.

6. Bergmann, Frithjof / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

The Experience of Values. / Handwritten letter from Bergman to Henry Aiken.

University of Michigan, 1973. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Stapled wrappers. Including a handwritten letter by Bergman with a letterhead of “The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor”: “Dear Henry : I very much look forward to your visit here for the lecture on Dewey. Meanwhile here is this small piece of mine – Affectionately yours, Frithjof” (1979). Letter coffeestained.

7. Blunden, Edmund.

Romantic Poetry and the Fine Arts. Warton Lecture on English Poetry.

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1942. 8°. 20 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear – edges bumped and chipped. Internally clean – no text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVIII.]

8. Burke, Kenneth.

Shakespearean Persuasion.

Yellow Springs, Ohio, The Antioch Press, 1964. Octavo. 36 pages. Softcover. Offprint. Very good. Reprinted from the Antioch Review, Spring 1964.

9. Cahn, Steven M.

The Eclipse of Excellence – A critique of American Higher Education. Foreword by Charles Frankel.

Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1973. 8°. 45 pages. Softcover. Original wrappers. FINE condition.

10. [Cather, Willa] Edel, Leon.

Willa Cather. The Paradox of Success.

Washington, Reference Dept, Library of Congress, 1960. 8°. 17 Pages. Stapled softcover wrappers. Good condition. No text markings. Browning along spine. Staples rusted. Front wrapper and first few leaves slightly creased. [″A Lecture Delivered Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, October 12, 1959.]

11. Chambers, Sir Edmund.

The Timelessness of Poetry. Presidential Address 1940.

First Edition. London, The English Association, 1940. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Handwritten notes made on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

12. Chisholm, Roderick M. / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of six (6) first edition offprints by and on Roderick M. Chisholm, all from the library of his friend and colleague Henry David Aiken, most of them signed and inscribed by Chisholm and one signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: 1. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Reichenbach on Observing and Perceiving” / 2. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Philosophers and Ordinary Language” / 3. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Contrary-To-Fact Conditional” / 4. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Defeat of Good and Evil” / 5. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Sentences about Believing” / 6. Roderick Firth – “Chisholm and the Ethics of Belief” [signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: “Henry – with best regards – Rod”].

Harvard / Brown University, 1946 – 1969. 8°. c. 80 pages. Original Offprints / Stapled. All offprints in very good+ – near fine condition.

13. [Cohen, Marshall] Wheelwright, Philip.

On the Semantics of Poetry.

Kenyon Review, 1940. 8°. 20 pages. Original brochure. Offprint from “Kenyon Review”. Very good plus condition. Copy of Marshall Cohen, friend and classmate of Stanley Cavell, with Cohen’s name penciled on titlepage.

14. Cooke, Jay.

How our National Debt can be paid. The Wealth, Resources and Power of the People of the United States. Prepared by Dr.William Elder, of the Treasury Department.

Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1865. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Dogeared. Foxed. Extremely rare original pamphlet reflecting the costs, revenue possibilities etc. of the times previous, in and after the American Civil War.

15. Copi, Irving.

Philosophy and Language.

The Review of Metaphysics, 1951. 8°. 10 pages. Softcover. Offprint from “The Review of Metaphysics” – 1951. Inscribed and signed by Copi: “For Hank – Irv.”.

16. Donham, Wallace B.

The Peace must be won at home.

Harvard Buisiness Review, 1943. 4°. 12 pages. Softcover. Original offprint. Some fraying and very minor damage to the upper spine.

17. Ducasse, C.J.

Paranormal Phenomena, Nature and Man.

Arthmore College, 1951. 8°. 20 pages. Softcover. The first John William Graham Lecture on psychic science. Offprint from “Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research”. Near fine.

18. [Einstein, Albert] / Lorentz, H.A. / [Holton, Gerard].

H.A.Lorentz – His Creative Genius and His Personality.

First Edition. Leiden, Rijksmuseum, 1953. Small Octavo. 8 pages including a reproduction of a photograph, showing Einstein and Lorentz by P. Ehrenfest in 1921. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Small note in red ink by former owner of this pamphlet, american physicist Gerald Holton: “translation seen by AE [Albert Einstein]”

19. Everett, Edward.

Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863.

Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.

20. Fleckenstein, Josef.

Sonderdruck-Sammlung / Kleinschriften-Sammlung / Offprint-Collection of Prof.Dr.Josef Fleckenstein, one of the worlds most eminent historians for the medieval period / middle Ages (Mittelalter), and especially the development and background of knights, knighthoods, chivalry. The collection includes roughly 5000 (fivethousand) offprints and pamphlets in 166 folders, alphabetized, neatly sorted and assisted by a special, old-fashioned card catalog. Most of the offprints and pamphlets were sent to Prof.Fleckenstein by international colleagues in his field of medieval studies, history and related studies. The majority of the publications are in german but many are also in italian, french and english as well. Many of the publications are signed and beautifully inscribed to Fleckenstein.

Germany, different publishers, c.1960 – 2002. Octavo. More than 100000 pages (onehundredthousand pages). Original Softcovers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ask for images. Price includes international shipping per courier.