101. [Stanley Cavell Collection] – Cavell, Stanley.

Pursuits of Happiness – the Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage.

Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1981, 15.5 cm x 23 cm, 283 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes. Some erasable light pencil underlining and notation in places.

102. [Quine, Willard Van Orman] Romanos, George D.

Quine and Analytic Philosophy. The Language of Language.

Cambridge/ London, Bradford Books, 1983. 20.1cm x 13.5cm. xvii, 227 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Front free endpaper detached.

103. Garon, Paul.

Rana Mozelle. Surrealist Research & Development.

Chicago, Black Swan Press, 1978. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Second Printing, 1978. Very good. [Monograph Series – Number Four].

104. [Quine, Willard Van Orman] Kadish, Mortimer R.

Reason and Controversy in the Arts.

Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, 1968. 8°. 282 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good jacket, slightly spine-sunned and with a few very small losses and closed tears to the top edge. First edition. From the library of Philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, with his name written on the front free endpaper.

105. Piaget, Jean.

Recherches sur la Contradiction. 1. Les Différentes Formes de la Contradiction.

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1974. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 147 pages. Couverture originale souple avec protection en Mylar / Original softcover in protective Mylar. Très bon état avec seulement des signes mineurs d’usure externe. / Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Etudes d’Epistémologie Génétique XXXI]

106. Scheitlin, Peter.

Religion, Natur und Kunst vorzüglich in ihrer Verbindung. Eine Reihe öffentlicher Vorlesungen.

St.Gallen, Wartmann und Scheitlin, 1836. Klein-8°. 239 Seiten. Moderner, sehr dekoartiver Halbleinenband mit marmoriertem Deckelbezug und Kantenverstärkung. Sehr guter Zustand der Originalausgabe. Selten !

107. [Gray, Cleve] Barzun, Jacques.

Romanticism and the Modern Ego. [Beautifully inscribed by Jacques Barzun to american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray].

6th edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1947. Octavo. 359 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Barzun to Cleve Gray on the endpaper: “Cleve Gray, painter, whose seeing eye does not stop at the outside of books. Dec. 15’ 48 – Jacques Barzun”. With several markings in pencil by Gray inside. [An Atlantic Monthly Press Book].

108. [Russell, Bertrand / Einstein, Albert / Oppenheimer, Robert / and other] Boyko, Hugo.

Science and the Future of Mankind [Including Essays by: Bertrand Russell – “Per Aspera ad Astra” / Albert Einstein – “Die Internationale Wissenschaft” / Robert Oppenheimer – “Thoughts on Art and Science: 1.Science and our Times – 2. Prospects in the Art and Sciences”].

First Edition. Den Haag, Uitgeverij Dr. W. Junk, 1961. Size. VIII, 380 (4) pages. Original Hardcover. Gilt lettering spine and frontboard. Former library copy with all usual signs and stamps. (Withdrawn from Simmons College Library). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

109. Simpson, George.

Science as Morality – An essay towards Unity [I. The Scientist: Technician or Moralist ? / II. The Assault on Social Science / III. The Conduct of Sociologists / IV. Science as Morality] Including an original letter by Simpson to Wolff, on his Brooklyn College Stationery and stapled to it a typescript of Kurt Wolff’s letter to Simpson.

Yellow Springs, The American Humanist Association, 1953. 8°. 60 pages. Softcover. From the library of Kurt H. Wolff. With several annotations by Wolff. Includes a typescript of a letter by Wolff to Simpson regarding this essay as well as an original letter with Simpsons answer to Wolff. Wolff criticizes Simpson briefly but has also positive things to say – Simpson answers Wolff that he is “supposed to draw up a code of standards for sociologists”. Very interesting document on american sociology !

110. Graham, Henry Grey.

Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1901. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XII, 441 pages. Includes an illustrated Frontispiece with a reproduction of a mezzotint after Allan Ramsay (protected with a tissue guard). With a further 31 black-and-white illustrations (portraits). Original Hardcover (blue cloth with gilt lettering). Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Some foxing evident with one illustration plate detached. An interesting Exlibris / bookplate with the engraved Motto: ‘Semper Paratus’ from the library of Albert A. Smith on front pastedown.