1. Bahm, Archie John.

What is Self ? – The Organicist Answer.

Moradabad, Darshana, 1962. 8°. 27 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. [Reprinted from Darshana – an international quarterly of Philosophy, Psychology, Psychical Research, religion, Mysticism & Sociology – No.5 – ]

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. Belitt, Ben.

Literature and Belief: Three “Spiritual Exercises”. Originally delivered at Bennington College as Lecture Eight in the Ben Belitt Lectureship Series October twenty-ninth, 1985.

Hoosick Falls, Bennington College, 1985. 8°. 29 pages with three reproductions of illustrations from William Blake’s “Book of Job” from the year 1825. Softcover. One of only 1000 hand-numbered copies. Two of the tipped-in illustrations loosened. Otherwise in excellent, close to new condition. [The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature – Published in Memory of William Troy]

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. Blackmur, Richard P. / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Religious Poetry in the United States [Original First dition Offprint from “Religion in American Life”].

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1961. Octavo. 14 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

8. [Bridgman, Percy Williams] Alpert, Harry.

Operational Definitions in Sociology. [Inscribed by Harry Alpert: “To Professor P.W.Bridgman – Cordially, Harry Alpert”].

[New York], American Sociological Review, 1938. Octavo. 8 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Nobel Laureate, Percy Bridgman. [Reprinted from American Sociological Review – Volume III, No.6, December, 1938].

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. Cipolla, Carlo M.

Il Valore Di Alcune Biblioteche Nel Trecento. [Estratto dal “Bollettino Storico Pavese”].

Pavia, Tipografia del Libro, 1944. Octavo. 20 pages. Original Pamphlet / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. One of the earliest publications by Cipolla. Signed and inscribed by Cipolla on the cover: “With all my regards – Carlo Cipolla”.

11. [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.

12. 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.”.

13. Davidson, Donald / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of Offprints by american philosopher, Donald Davidson. The Collection includes: 1. Donald Davidson – Semantics for natural language (Original Offprint from “Linguaggi nella societa e nella tecnica”, 1970) / 2. Donald Davidson –

Milano / Dordrecht, Edizioni di Comunita / D.Reidel Publishing Company, 1970. Octavo. 11 pages / 18 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. Durkheim, Emile.

Two Laws of Penal Evolution [I. The Law of Quantitative Variations / II. The Law of Qualitative Variations]. Translated by William Jeffrey, Jr.

Cincinnati, The University of Cincinnati Law review, 1969. 8°. 28 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition. Stamped: “With the Compliments of the Translator”. From the library of exiled sociologist, Kurt H. Wolff, given to him by the TranslatorWilliam Jeffrey, Jr. Original offprint from “The University of Cincinnati Law Review”.

17. Galbraith, John Kenneth.

Beyond the Marshall Plan – including A Joint Statement by Members of NPA’s Board of Trustees and Agriculture, Business, Labor and International Committees present at NPA’s annual joint meeting – January 31 and February 1, 1949 – and a report by John Kenneth Galbraith.

Planning Pamphlets, 1949. 8°. IV, 28 pages. Softcover. Original brochure – Planning Pamphlets No.67.

18. 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].

19. Goodman, Nelson / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of First editions of Papers and Essays on and by american philosopher Nelson Goodman. The Collection includes: 1. Nelson Goodman – “On Relations that Generate” (Numbers 5-6 of Volume IX of Philosophical Studies, 1958) / 2. Nelson Goodman – “Discussion on Infirmities of Confirmation Theory” [Carnap] (Offprint from “Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1947) / 3. Hugues Leblanc – A Revised Version of Goodman’s Confirmation Paradox (Number 4 of Volume XIV of Philosophical Studies, 1963) /

Minnesota a.o., Philosophical Studies / Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1947 – 1963. Octavo. Original Offprints / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken. [Philosophical Studies – Edited by Wilfried Sellars and Herbert Feigl].

20. Hartz, Louis.

Three offprints: 1. The Reactionary Enlightenment: Southern Political Thought before the Civil War (1952) / 2. The Whig Tradition in America and Europe (1952) / 3. American Political Thought and the American Revolution (1952) //

Utah, University of Utah, / The American Political Science Review, 1952. 8°. 21, 20, 13 pages. Softcover. Three offprints in very good condition.

21. Havelock, E.A.

Why was Socrates Tried ?

Toronto, [The Phoenix], 1952. 8°. 13 pages. Softcover / Stapled offprint. Inscribed / signed by Havelock. Offprint from “Studies in Honour of Gilbert Norwood”.

22. Hooton, David John.

The Language of Physics – An inaugural lecture given on 18 September 1963 by David John Hooton.

New Zealand, University of Auckland, 1963. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition.

23. Jacyna, Witold.

Über kausale Natur der „statistischen Gesetzlichkeit“. [First Edition Offprint / Sonderabdruck aus der Zeitschrift “Zeitschrift fuer Physik”].

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1936. Octavo. 4 Seiten / 4 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Percy Bridgman.

24. James, William / [Gibbens, Alice Howe].

The Energies of Men. [Personal copy of William James’ wife Alice Howe Gibbens – signed: “A.H.James”]. Stunning provenance of the First Edition-offprint from ‘The Philosophical Review’, Vol. XVI, No. 1, January, 1907, of William James’ Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association on December 28th, 1906. A study of psychic energy ranging from Pierre Janet to Yoga to the “mind-cure” movement. James already is fascinated in this address about G.Papini’s “Doctrine of Action”, “the study of all human powers and means”.

1907. Octavo. 19 pages. Original Wrappers / Softcover. The wrappers detached and brittle. The pages stapled and in very good condition. James retired in January 1907 from Harvard. Possibly one of the rarest offprints with a William James-connection and with high probability, a gift from James to his wife. Books with the provenance of his wife never seem to surface on the market.

25. Kaufmann, Fritz (1891-1958).

Art and Phenomenology.

1940. 8°. 15 pages. Stapled Offprint from “Philosophical Essays”. Inscribed and monogrammed by Fritz Kaufmann: “In friendship and gratitude – FK”.

26. Kohák, Erazim / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Existence and the Philosophical Epokhe. [Original First Edition Offprint from “The Journal of Existentialism”].

New York, 1967. Octavo. 26 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

27. [Levin, Harry] Hindus, Milton.

The Pattern of Proustian Love.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Quarterly, 1951. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Stapled offprint from “New Mexico Quarterly” – 1951. Inscribed / Signed by Hindus: “For Professor (Harry) Levin, Cordially – Milton Hindus”

28. [Levin, Harry] Kahler, Erich von.

The True, the Good and the Beautiful. A lecture delivered at Ohio State University December 10,1959.

Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1959. 8°. 40 pages. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by Erich Kahler “for Harry Levin with gratitude for the splendid Gauss lectures – Erich Kahler – May 1961” (by mentioning Gauss he speaks of “Christian Gauss”) / Also included: “The Nature of the Symbol – Offprint from “Symbolism in Religion and Literature, 1960”

29. Lichtheim, George.

The Concept of Ideology [The Revolutionary Heritage / The Hegelian Tradition / From Hegel to Marx / From Metaphysics to Positivism / The Romantic Revolt / The Sociology of Knowledge / [George] Lukacs and [Karl] Mannheim / The Problem of Consciousness].

Mouton & Co., 1965. 8°. 31 pages. Original stapled offprint. Offprint from “History and Theory”. Inscribed and signed in full by George Lichtheim on the cover.

30. Lowe, Victor / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

“A Resurgence of “Vicious Intellectualism”. (Number 14 of Volume XLVIII of Philosophical Studies, 1951).

Minnesota, Philosophical Studies, 1951. Octavo. 12 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

31. Margolis, Joseph.

The Mode of Existence of a work of Art.

The Review of Metaphysics, 1958. 8°. 9 pages. Softcover. Offprint form “The Review of Metaphysics” – 1958.

32. Matthiesen, F.O.

The Humanities in War Time.

Harvard Album, 1943. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Frontcover slightly fingerstained. Very good.

33. McKeon, Richard.

The Philosophic Bases of Art and Criticism.

Modern Philology, 1944. 8°. 62 pages. Softcover. Part I and II (complete). Offprint from “Modern Philology” – 1943-1944.

34. Mead, Margaret.

The Maoris and their Arts.

New York, The American Museum of Natural History, 1928. 8°. Frontispiece-Map of New Zealand, 37 pages with several illustrations. Original, illustrated Softcover. Rare First Edition from 1928. Very good+ condition. Inventorynumber on frontcover. The publication precedes Margaret Mead’s first book. [Guide Leaflet Series No.71]

35. Nock, Arthur Darby.

Faiths and Symbols. An introduction by Arthur Darby Nock. For an exhibition held in the Gallery of The Century Association during April 1943.

New York, The Century Association, 1943. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover / Original printed wrappers. Near fine.

36. Pepper, Stephen C.

Whitehead’s “Actual Occasion”.

New Orleans, Tulane University, 1961. 8°. 17 pages. Stapled offprint from “Tulane Studies in Philosophy” – Volume X. Excellent condition. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

37. Perry, Charner.

Two offprints: 1. The Semantics of Political Science / 2. The Rationale of Political Discussion.

American Political Science Review / American Philosophical Association, 1950 – 1955. 8°. 9, 13 pages. Softcover. Both offprints in very good+ condition (1950-1955).

38. Perry, Ralph Barton.

Economic Value and Moral Value.

First Edition. Oxford, Oxford University Press, [1916]. Octavo. pages 443 – 485. Original, stapled offprint. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Staples a little rusty but not bleeding.

39. [Peyre, Henri] / Watson, Curtis / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

“Henri Peyre – Observations on Life, Literature and Learning in America” – [Original Offprint from “Les Livres”].

[Les Livres], c. 1962. Octavo. 4 pages. Original Offprint. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

40. Reichenbach, Hans / Goodman, Nelson / Lewis, Clarence I. (C.I.).

The Experimential Element in Knowledge [Three Papers read at the 1951 meeting of the Eastern Division of the Amrican Philosophical Association at Bryn Mawr College: I. Hans Reichenbach – Are Phenomenal Reports absolutely Certain ? / II. Nelson Goodman – Sense and Certainty / III. C.I.Lewis – The Given Element in Empirical Knowledge /

Philosophical Review, 1952. 8°. 28 pages. Offprint from “The Philosophical Review” Vol. LXI, No. 2, 1952. Octavo, paginated 147-175. An offprint from The Philosophical Review of a paper read at the 1951 meeting of the Eastern Division of the APA, entitled “The Given Element in Empirical Knowledge”. Near fine in stapled wraps lacking external covers, as issued.

41. Rieff, Philip.

Two offprints: 1. History, Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences (1953) / 2. The Authority of the Past – Sickness and Society in Freud’s Thought (1954) //

Social Research, 1953 – 1954. 8°. 13, 23 pages. Softcover. Stapled. Only slightly stained. Rare !

42. Sarton, George.

The Incubation of Western Culture in the Middle East. A George C. Keiser Foundation Lecture delivered by George Sarton, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University in The Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, March 29, 1950.

Washington, The Library of Congress, 1951. 8°. 45 pages. Softcover. Very good condition.

43. Schapiro, Meyer.

Style.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1953. 8°. 25 pages. Softcover. Original offprint for private circulation only – From “Anthropology Today” – 1953.

44. Schapiro, Meyer / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

The Still Life as a Personal Object – A note on Heidegger and van Gogh.

4°. 7 pages. Stapled offprint from “The Reach of Mind: Essays in Memory of Kurt Goldstein” – 1968. Sent by Schapiro to Henry David Aiken (this lot includes the original envelope).

45. Schlick, Moritz.

Causality in Contemporary Physics [Includes: “Indeterminateness of Nature and Freedom of the Will”]. Translated by D.Rynin (First published in “Die Naturwissenschaften,1931”).

Edinburgh, 1961. 8°. 21 pages. Softcover. Offprint form “The British Journal for The Philosophy of Science” – 1967.

46. [Schütz, Alfred] Kersten, Fred.

Phenomenology, History, Myth.

The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, (1970). 8°. 35 pages. Softcover. Offprint from “Phenomology and Social Reality – Essays in memory of Alfred Schütz”. Inscribed and signed by Fred Kersten.

47. Sharp, Gene / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal.

New York, World Policy Institute, 1980. Octavo. 15 pages. Offprint / Pamphlet. This essay first appeared in the World Without War Issues Center-Midwest Newsletter, Dec 1980. Very good copy in publisher’s wrappers. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

48. 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 !

49. Skinner, B.F.

Has Gertrude Stein a Secret ?

First Edition Offprint. Atlantic Monthly, 1934. 8°. 8 pages. Stapled Softcover. Original offprint from “The Atlantic Monthly” (1959).

50. [Stanley Cavell Collection] – [Cavell, Stanley] Bates, Stanley / Cohen, Ted.

More on what we say.

First Edition. Chicago, Middlebury College, 1972. 8°. 24 pages. Softcover. Offprint from Metaphilosophy – Volume 3 – No.1 – January 1972.

51. Ward, J.P.

The Killing of Kin – A study of Greek Tragedy and Social Interactionism.

Saint David’s University College, 1979. 8°. 46 pages. Softcover. Original wrappers. Near fine condition. [Trivium 14]

52. White, Leslie A. / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Energy and the Evolution of Culture. [Original first edition offprint from “American Anthropologist”].

American Anthropologist, 1943. Octavo. 21 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

53. [Wolff, Kurt Heinrich] Janik, Allan / Habermas, Jürgen.

Philosophical Sources of Wittgenstein’s Ethic [by Allan Janik]. Inscribed and signed by Allan Janik to Kurt Wolff: “For Kurt – best wishes – Allan”.

St.Louis, Telos, 1980. 8°. 15 pages. Original brochure. Very good condition. Signed / Inscribed.