1. Paine, Thomas.

Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly ; Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man, by creating in every Nation a National Fund, to pay to every person, when arrived at the age of Twenty-One years, the sum of Fifteen Pounds Sterling, to enable him; or her to begin the world; And Also, Ten Pounds Sterling per annum during life to every person now living of the age of Fifty Years, and to all others when they shall arrive at that age, to enable them to live in old age without Wretchedness, and go decently out of the world. By Thomas Paine, author of Common sense, Rights of man, Age of reason, &c. &c.

First Irish Edition / First Cork Edition. Cork, Printed at the late Gazette-Office, no year [1797]. Octavo. 16 pages. Original half-leather. Binding in very poor condition but interior firm and clean besides the endpaper and first few pages of the Volume which is bound before the work by Thomas Paine. Rear endpaper missing. Very important publication, perfectly protected in the rear of this Volume. The Cork-Print of this important pamphlet is of utmost rarity.

2. Parsons, Talcott.

Essays in Sociological Theory Pure and Applied. [Heavily annotated].

Illinois, The Free Press, 1949. 15 cm x 23 cm. XIII, 366 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of exiled sociologist, Kurt Heinrich Wolff, Translator of landmark publications by Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim and Karl Mannheim. With several annotations, pencil-notes and minor red markings throughout. Especially in the chapters “Propaganda and Social Control” and “The Problem of Controlled Institutional Change”. Two pieces of ephemera loosely inserted. Dustjacket notes pasted to front pastedown enpaper. Ink inscription (ownership entry and date) by Kurt Wolff on front free endpaper, dated 1949.

3. 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.

4. Ruskin, John.

Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures delivered at Manchester in 1864: Of Kings’ Treasuries and Of Queens’ Gardens.

Third edition, with preface. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1866. 12 x 17.5cm. (23), 196 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with gilt lettering and gilt edges. Spine sunned, minor marks to boards and joint beginning to loosen but otherwise in very good condition. Inscribed with previous owner’s name on half-title page. Stamp on front free endpaper.

5. Elster, Jon.

Making Sense of Marx.

Cambridge, UK / New York / Melbourne/ Paris, Cambridge University Press, 1998. 15.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XV, 556 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.