Yesterday's Muse Books

Sykes, Gerald

Alienation: The Cultural Climate of Our Times, in Two Volumes

New York: George Braziller, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. No jacket. Slipcase rubbed. Minor general wear.

xv, 641; vi, 643-1237 pp. Two volume set in publisher slipcase. Author helped popularize the writings of Lawrence Durrell and Franz Kafka. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Book One. Victims: This Neutrality Toward Death;.....

Price: $25.00

Newman, James R.

Science and Sensibility, in Two Volumes

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition. Slipcase rubbed. No jacket. Both volumes: Spine lightly rubbed.

372; 309 pp. Two volume set in publisher slipcase. Essays on science and civilization. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Author's Preface; Part 1: Nature and the Greeks; Education in Antiquity; Science.....

Price: $15.00

Russell, Bertrand

The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 1872-1914

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, 1967. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.

Second printing. Some chips and tears to jacket, jacket laminate starting.

356 pp. The autobiography of Bertrand Russell during the years 1872-1914. CONTENTS: Prologue: What I Have Lived For; Childhood; Adolescence; Cambridge; Engagement; First Marriage;.....

Price: $10.00

Paine, Thomas; Fast, Howard (Introduction)

Rights of Man (The Heritage Press)

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961. Ward, Lynd. Reissue. Large Hardcover.

Includes publisher's slipcase. Sandglass Number I:26 laid in along with publisher's envelope and original receipt. Slipcase edges and book spine slightly faded, otherwise an excellent copy.

xvi, [2], 269 pp. Hardcover in slipcase. Paine's famous treatise, with an introduction.....

Price: $15.00

Edwards, Jonathan; Kaufman, Arnold S.; Frankena, William K.

Freedom of the Will (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984. Reissue. Full-Leather.

Ribbon marker frayed at end, edges of endpapers faded, faint blemishes to gilt on top edge.

xliii, 273, [1] pp. Dark grey full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. An exposition of.....

Price: $50.00

Item #2330694 The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (The 100...

Veblen, Thorstein

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Reissue. Full-Leather.

An exceptional copy.

293 pp. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. The Theory of the Leisure Class is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a......

Price: $40.00

Item #2330663 Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces...

James, William

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1982. Reissue. Full-Leather.

Faint blemishes to gilt on edges, otherwise an excellent copy.

xii, [2], 193 pp. Red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Frontispiece portrait of author. The classic work by the well-known.....

Price: $45.00