Philosophy from Lux Libri

NY: Viking Press, 1945. 1st edition. An important essay from the dawn of the Atomic Age. First published in shorter form in the Saturday Review in August 1945, just after two A-bombs were dropped on Japan and effectively ended World War II. 59 pp., including an appendix with excerpts from the Federalist papers on the US Constitution. Slender clothbound hardcover.… Read more about this item

Boston: Arena Publishing, 1894. 1st edition. Ex-library from a Sunday School in NY state. A scarce Social Gospel novel about the meaning of Christianity. The issue is debated in the context of socialism by a Presbyterian clergyman and a retired schoolmaster in New England. The minister stakes his position with a sermon on "Socialism: Its Evils and its Cure." The… Read more about this item

Paris: Paulus-du-Mesnil, 1740. Nouvelle edition. Reflections on morality and the art of living well. With moral maxims "that can serve to drive our passions, to practice virtue, & flee vices." A popular work by Jean Puget de la Serre, a prolific author and playwright who was royal librarian to Gaston, Duke of Orleans. French text. [8], 249, [6] pp. Contemporary… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Hatsubai Riburopoto, 1991. 1st edition. Signed by the editor with TLS also enclosed. Near Fine in dust jacket. A nicely designed book on cyborgs, feminism and female identity. All text is in Japanese, apart from limited titles in English. Includes Donna Harraway's important essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." Also includes work… Read more about this item