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London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1758. Second edition. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary full leather, spine labels. Scuffing to boards; offsetting to endpapers from leather tips; spotting and toning to certain leaves with occasional foxing; starting to front joints; wear to leather and boards, particularly at corners. Two in-tact folding maps. A bright and well-preserved second edition of this classic survey of European settlements in the Americas, in two volumes, with originally issued folding maps. From the personal library of Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, famed American ecologist, biologist, and conservationist. Very good.. Second edition of An Account of the European Settlements in America, attributed to Edmund Burke (1729-1797), who is believed to have revised the initial account authored (or co-authored) by purported kinsman William Burke (1729-1798). Edmund Burke is today best remembered for his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which offered an enduring polemic… Read More

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953. First US edition, second printing (August 1953). Octavo. Original maroon cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor scuffing to board with chip to top of front hinge; minor foxing to pastedowns and free endpapers; edgewear to dust jacket, with chipping along folds and corners; large chip to head of dust jacket and spine, affecting name and title on spine, and to foot of spine; small closed tear to head of rear jacket panel with crease; spotting to dust jacket. Very good early printing of Kirk's masterpiece.. Second printing of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) landmark history of modern intellectual conservatism. When The Conservative Mind was first published in 1953 by the Henry Regnery Company in Chicago, a substantial literature had developed in opposition to (or, at least as a critique of) modern liberalism, including through the works of Albert J. Nock, James Burnham, T. S. Eliot, and Richard Weaver. What the literature seemed to lack, however, was a… Read More

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1954. First UK edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth (lacking dust jacket). Edgewear and scuffing to boards with wear to spine; toning to endpapers; very small creases to several page corners; dusting and spotting to page block with small ink mark to top block. Very good.. First UK edition of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) landmark history of modern intellectual conservatism. When The Conservative Mind was first published in 1953 by the Henry Regnery Company in Chicago, a substantial literature had developed in opposition to (or, at least as a critique of) modern liberalism, including through the works of Albert J. Nock, James Burnham, T. S. Eliot, and Richard Weaver. What the literature seemed to lack, however, was a unifying concept, or guiding principle, capable of combining its many unique strands into a coherent tradition. As Henry Regnery affirmed in the book's seventh revised edition, "it was the great achievement, one might even say the historic achievement, of Russell… Read More

Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1960. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Edgewear to dust jacket, particularly to foot of the front wrapper and spine, including a few small closed tears to jacket; some smudging and sunning to spine and jacket; faint sticker mark to rear wrapper; leaves bright and unmarked. A well-preserved first edition of Bell's most influential work; difficult to find in this condition. Near-fine in a very good-plus dust jacket.. First edition of Daniel Bell's (1919-2011) most influential work evaluating the changing intellectual life in the mid-twentieth century. Bell was a prominent American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor who once described himself as a "socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture." Bell began his career as a journalist and served as managing editor of The New Leader (1941-1945), labor editor at Fortune (1948-1958), and co-editor with Irving Kristol of The Public Interest… Read More

London: Socialist Labour League, 1960. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 7 x 5 inches, 8 pp. Toning to wrappers and pages with "Labor Book Shop" stamp to front wrapper; faint crease marks to upper-right leaves; one-inch chip to top of rear wrapper (along spine); one-inch closed tear to rear wrapper; wrappers pulling from staples. A delicate and rare pamphlet written by Alasdair MacIntyre for the Socialist Labour League. Very good.. Rare original printing of Alasdair MacIntyre's (b. 1929) early pamphlet discussing and debating a proposed change to Clause 4 of the Labour Party Constitution. Celebrated for his monumental work on virtue ethics, After Virtue (1981), MacIntyre was early influenced by Marxist thought and principles, and briefly joined the Socialist Labour League as a young scholar. His first book, Marxism: An Interpretation, published in 1953, evaluated the influence of theological concepts on Marxist thought. Although his Marxist sympathies would evolve throughout his distinguished career,… Read More

Berkeley, California: The University Press: Philosophical Union of the University of California offprint from the University of California Chronicle, Volume XIII, No. 4, 1911. Offprint. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 5.75 x 8.75 inches, 26 pp. Faint spotting to wrappers; crease to front wrapper with several half-inch closed tears to head of wrappers and title page; some separation of wrappers along spine; discreet, one-inch tape repair to head of front wrapper (verso); toning to wrappers and leaves; pages bright and unmarked. Very good.. Original offprint setting forth George Santayana's (1863-1952) remarks before the Philosophical Union of the University of California on August 25, 1911 on "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy." In what would become his farewell address to America, Santayana analyzes American culture and tradition at the turn of the twentieth century, presenting America with a vision of itself that would, in the decades ahead, begin to fade away before the advent of democratic… Read More

New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1984. First edition. Octavo. Original blue cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor wear and creasing to jacket, including two small, closed tears to head of front and rear jacket; small, neat pencil marks in the margins of a handful of pages. This first edition inscribed by Charles Murray to Robert Nisbet on front free endpaper: "To Robert Nisbet, / With admiration & best wishes, / Charles Murray." A bright first edition and association copy of Murray's classic work.. A bright first edition of Charles Murray's (b. 1943) groundbreaking evaluation of the efficacy of America's welfare state policies from 1950 to 1980, warmly inscribed to influential American sociologist, author, and public commentator Robert Nisbet. First published in 1984, Murray wrote Losing Ground while a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, arguing that America's social welfare policies, as they have been implemented in the US, have had the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First edition. Octavo. Original green cloth, with gold titling to spine, and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor edgewear with spotting and dusting to page block; prior owner name and date to front free endpaper; faint toning and spotting to dust jacket with minor edgewear, particularly at lower hinges.. A collection of fourteen influential pamphlets of the American Revolution assembled and edited by Bernard Bailyn (1905-1987). Originally conceived as the first volume in a four-volume series (assembling seventy-two pamphlets in all) to be published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University as part of the John Harvard Library Series, this would be the only volume of the series ever published. The pamphlets included in this first and only volume include Richard Bland's The Colonel Dismounted (1764), James Otis's The Rights of the British Colonies (1764), and Daniel Dulany's Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing… Read More

N.P.: Offprint published from the Annals of Botany, Vol. XXXII, No. CXXVIII, 1918. Offprint. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 9 x 6 inches, offprint including pp. 466-501. Wrappers age-toned with creasing to wrappers and leaves; staining and sunning to wrappers, particularly at edges, with some spotting; staple rust; leaves unmarked and well-preserved with some wrinkling. This original offprint contains seven illustrated figures by Arber herself. Aged but very good offprint inscribed by the great British plant morphologist Agnes Arber to top of front wrapper: "With kind regards / A. A." Especially rare with inscription.. Original offprint authored and inscribed by Agnes Arber (1879-1960), the pioneering anatomist, historian, and botanist who would become the first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London for her contributions to botany. Born in London in 1879, Arber attended the North London Collegiate School… Read More

N.P.: The Science Press, 1904. Reprint. Octavo. Wrappers. 15 pp. Light toning to wrapper edges, although leaves remain bright; wrappers beginning to separate from staples at bottom spine; minor marginalia to final page; faint creasing across middle. Rare offprint of James's classic essay bearing the front wrapper instruction: "Please return to Mrs. W. James / 95 Irving St. / Cambridge." A wonderful association copy of this uncommon work. Very good.. Bright reprint of William James's (1842-1910) influential essay "The Pragmatic Method," personally owned by his wife, Alice Howe Gibbens James (1849-1922). William James was a leading American philosopher, psychologist, and historian who, with Charles Sanders Peirce, is credited with founding the philosophical school of Pragmatism. James became a pioneer of modern psychology with the publication of his book The Principles of Psychology (1890), and he made important contributions to the fields of philosophy and social thought with works like Essays in… Read More

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Signed by Russell Kirk's wife, Annette Kirk, on front free endpaper: "With best wishes! / Annette Y. Kirk / August 1997." Fine in fine dust jacket.. A fine copy of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) memoirs, signed by his wife, Annette Kirk, to whom he dedicated the book. Widely celebrated as a founding father of modern intellectual conservatism, Russell Kirk-the Sage of Mecosta-set out in The Sword of Imagination to describe his participation in the intellectual, social, philosophical, and political contests of the twentieth century. Kirk wrote the book in the third person in order to tell the story of a young boy coming of age in the railroad yards outside of Detroit and maturing into one of the most influential political minds of his generation. Perhaps best remembered for his movement-defining book The Conservative Mind (1953), throughout his life Kirk wielded… Read More