Essays in a pluralistic art world. Pp. xxx+450, index; qr. black paper, spine lettered in silver, grey papered boards; a couple of tiny bruises to edges of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2000. First edition. More about THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE
Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. Edited by Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok. Pp. xiv+236, text figures, references; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; bookplate of Melbourne architect Peter Corrigan on upper pastedown; Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1983. First edition. *Compares the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce... More about THE SIGN OF THREE
The life and thought of William Godwin. Pp. xii+398, 12 plates, chronology, references, index; dust wrapper, lightly rubbed; Routledge & KeganPaul, London, 1980. First edition. *Biography of the philosopher and novelist: husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, father of Mary Shelley, and friend of Coleridge, Lamb and Hazlitt. More about A FANTASY OF REASON
in four volumes. The seventh edition. Pp. lvi+774+[14]+[ii]+714+[10]+[ii]+610+[8]+[vi]+670+[10], engraved frontispiece portrait, indices; med. 4to; later half calf, spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with earlier gilt lettered red & brown title & volume labels (a few slightly chipped) laid on, marbled papered boards, lower board of first volume..... More about THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE
The Man and his Mind. Pp. viii+346, frontispiece portrait, plus 23 plates, appendices, index; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, corners of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled, with mottled fading, edges and backstrip rubbed and split, with a few small chips, backstrip slightly browned; bookseller's sticker... More about ALBERT SCHWEITZER