1. Aherne, C.D. [from Flaxfort House in Little Island, Cork] / [O’Rahilly, Professor Alfred]

Professor O’Rahilly – Illusionist.

Cork / Dublin / Essex, Columbian Press, 1941. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. 16 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Staples rusted and minor foxing to endpapers only. Rare !

2. Barrett, William.

What is Existentialism ?

Partisan Review, 1947. 8°. 63 pages. Softcover. Original printed wrappers. Binding stained with small tear. Some staining to a few pages. [PR Series – Number Two]

3. Bemis, George.

Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney General of England in the british Commons, May 13,1864.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1864. 8°. VIII, 83 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Unopened. Upper corner dogeared. Elswise very good plus.

4. Berger, Peter / Kellner, Hansfried.

Marriage and the Construction of Reality – An exercise in the Microsociology of Knowledge.

Diogenes, [1964]. 8°. 24 pages. Softcover. Offprint from “Diogenes 46” (1964). Some stains within text.

5. Berger, Peter L.

Towards a Sociological Understanding of Psychoanalysis.

Social Research, 1965. 8°. 35 pages. Softcover. First Edition Offprint from “Social Research” – Spring 1965.

6. Bergmann, Frithjof / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

The Experience of Values. / Handwritten letter from Bergman to Henry Aiken.

University of Michigan, 1973. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Stapled wrappers. Including a handwritten letter by Bergman with a letterhead of “The University of Michigan – Ann Arbor”: “Dear Henry : I very much look forward to your visit here for the lecture on Dewey. Meanwhile here is this small piece of mine – Affectionately yours, Frithjof” (1979). Letter coffeestained.

7. Blunden, Edmund.

Romantic Poetry and the Fine Arts. Warton Lecture on English Poetry.

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1942. 8°. 20 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear – edges bumped and chipped. Internally clean – no text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVIII.]

8. Burke, Kenneth.

Shakespearean Persuasion.

Yellow Springs, Ohio, The Antioch Press, 1964. Octavo. 36 pages. Softcover. Offprint. Very good. Reprinted from the Antioch Review, Spring 1964.

9. Cahn, Steven M.

The Eclipse of Excellence – A critique of American Higher Education. Foreword by Charles Frankel.

Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1973. 8°. 45 pages. Softcover. Original wrappers. FINE condition.

10. [Cather, Willa] Edel, Leon.

Willa Cather. The Paradox of Success.

Washington, Reference Dept, Library of Congress, 1960. 8°. 17 Pages. Stapled softcover wrappers. Good condition. No text markings. Browning along spine. Staples rusted. Front wrapper and first few leaves slightly creased. [″A Lecture Delivered Under the Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund in the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, October 12, 1959.]

11. Chambers, Sir Edmund.

The Timelessness of Poetry. Presidential Address 1940.

First Edition. London, The English Association, 1940. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Handwritten notes made on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

12. Chisholm, Roderick M. / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of six (6) first edition offprints by and on Roderick M. Chisholm, all from the library of his friend and colleague Henry David Aiken, most of them signed and inscribed by Chisholm and one signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: 1. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Reichenbach on Observing and Perceiving” / 2. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Philosophers and Ordinary Language” / 3. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Contrary-To-Fact Conditional” / 4. Roderick M. Chisholm – “The Defeat of Good and Evil” / 5. Roderick M. Chisholm – “Sentences about Believing” / 6. Roderick Firth – “Chisholm and the Ethics of Belief” [signed and inscribed by Roderick Firth: “Henry – with best regards – Rod”].

Harvard / Brown University, 1946 – 1969. 8°. c. 80 pages. Original Offprints / Stapled. All offprints in very good+ – near fine condition.

13. [Cohen, Marshall] Wheelwright, Philip.

On the Semantics of Poetry.

Kenyon Review, 1940. 8°. 20 pages. Original brochure. Offprint from “Kenyon Review”. Very good plus condition. Copy of Marshall Cohen, friend and classmate of Stanley Cavell, with Cohen’s name penciled on titlepage.

14. Cooke, Jay.

How our National Debt can be paid. The Wealth, Resources and Power of the People of the United States. Prepared by Dr.William Elder, of the Treasury Department.

Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1865. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Dogeared. Foxed. Extremely rare original pamphlet reflecting the costs, revenue possibilities etc. of the times previous, in and after the American Civil War.

15. Copi, Irving.

Philosophy and Language.

The Review of Metaphysics, 1951. 8°. 10 pages. Softcover. Offprint from “The Review of Metaphysics” – 1951. Inscribed and signed by Copi: “For Hank – Irv.”.

16. Donham, Wallace B.

The Peace must be won at home.

Harvard Buisiness Review, 1943. 4°. 12 pages. Softcover. Original offprint. Some fraying and very minor damage to the upper spine.

17. Ducasse, C.J.

Paranormal Phenomena, Nature and Man.

Arthmore College, 1951. 8°. 20 pages. Softcover. The first John William Graham Lecture on psychic science. Offprint from “Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research”. Near fine.

18. [Einstein, Albert] / Lorentz, H.A. / [Holton, Gerard].

H.A.Lorentz – His Creative Genius and His Personality.

First Edition. Leiden, Rijksmuseum, 1953. Small Octavo. 8 pages including a reproduction of a photograph, showing Einstein and Lorentz by P. Ehrenfest in 1921. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Small note in red ink by former owner of this pamphlet, american physicist Gerald Holton: “translation seen by AE [Albert Einstein]”

19. Everett, Edward.

Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863.

Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.

20. Fleckenstein, Josef.

Sonderdruck-Sammlung / Kleinschriften-Sammlung / Offprint-Collection of Prof.Dr.Josef Fleckenstein, one of the worlds most eminent historians for the medieval period / middle Ages (Mittelalter), and especially the development and background of knights, knighthoods, chivalry. The collection includes roughly 5000 (fivethousand) offprints and pamphlets in 166 folders, alphabetized, neatly sorted and assisted by a special, old-fashioned card catalog. Most of the offprints and pamphlets were sent to Prof.Fleckenstein by international colleagues in his field of medieval studies, history and related studies. The majority of the publications are in german but many are also in italian, french and english as well. Many of the publications are signed and beautifully inscribed to Fleckenstein.

Germany, different publishers, c.1960 – 2002. Octavo. More than 100000 pages (onehundredthousand pages). Original Softcovers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ask for images. Price includes international shipping per courier.

21. Fox, Gustavus Vasa.

Russian Account of the Official Mission to Russia of Hon.G.V.Fox in 1866.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1867. 8°. 38 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Some light foxing only.

22. Galbraith, John Kenneth.

Beyond the Marshall Plan – including A Joint Statement by Members of NPA’s Board of Trustees and Agriculture, Business, Labor and International Committees present at NPA’s annual joint meeting – January 31 and February 1, 1949 – and a report by John Kenneth Galbraith.

Planning Pamphlets, 1949. 8°. IV, 28 pages. Softcover. Original brochure – Planning Pamphlets No.67.

23. Garon, Paul.

Rana Mozelle. Surrealist Research & Development.

Chicago, Black Swan Press, 1978. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Second Printing, 1978. Very good. [Monograph Series – Number Four].

24. Grierson, Prof. H.J.C.

Lord Byron: Arnold and Swinburne. Warton Lecture on English Poetry XI.

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8°. 31 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear – corners bumped, pages chipped. Some text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. IX.]

25. Hartz, Louis.

Three offprints: 1. The Reactionary Enlightenment: Southern Political Thought before the Civil War (1952) / 2. The Whig Tradition in America and Europe (1952) / 3. American Political Thought and the American Revolution (1952) //

Utah, University of Utah, / The American Political Science Review, 1952. 8°. 21, 20, 13 pages. Softcover. Three offprints in very good condition.

26. Havelock, E.A.

Why was Socrates Tried ?

Toronto, [The Phoenix], 1952. 8°. 13 pages. Softcover / Stapled offprint. Inscribed / signed by Havelock. Offprint from “Studies in Honour of Gilbert Norwood”.

27. Hooton, David John.

The Language of Physics – An inaugural lecture given on 18 September 1963 by David John Hooton.

New Zealand, University of Auckland, 1963. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition.

28. Howard, Jacob M(erritt).

San Juan Island – Speech of Hon.Jacob M.Howard, of Michigan, delivered in executive Session of the Senate, April 16, 1869.

Washington, F.&J.Rives & Geo. A.Bailey, 1870. 8°. 13 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Inscribed by Howard on the frontcover “Compl(imen)ts of J.M.H.”

29. Inge, The Very Rev. W.R.

Modernism in Literature. Presidential Address 1937.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1937. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. No text markings. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

30. Johnson, Andrew.

Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, on the State of the Union; delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 5 and 6, 1861.

Washington, The Congressional Globe Office, 1861. 8°. 28 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Waterstained. Poor condition. Unopened original title-wrappers.

31. Jones, Henry.

Tennyson.

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1909. 8°. 15 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear – corners and spine bumped. No text markings. Pages yellowed. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. IV.]

32. [Kennedy, John Pendleton].

The Border States, their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the Country.

(Maryland), (1860). 8°. 46 pages. Softcover. This is an Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Not the Lippincott-publication, this must be a proof or a preprint of the publication. It contains several handwritten notes and markings in pencil by an old hand.

33. Laboulaye, Edward (Edouard Rene de) [Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye] / [Lincoln, Abraham].

The Election of the President of the United States (Professor Laboulaye, the great friend of America, on the Presidential Election).

Washington, Printed for the Union Congressional Committee, 1864. 8°. 14 pages. Softcover / Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some foxing. Unopened. Extremely RARE !

34. [Levin, Harry] Hindus, Milton.

The Pattern of Proustian Love.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Quarterly, 1951. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Stapled offprint from “New Mexico Quarterly” – 1951. Inscribed / Signed by Hindus: “For Professor (Harry) Levin, Cordially – Milton Hindus”

35. Margolis, Joseph.

The Mode of Existence of a work of Art.

The Review of Metaphysics, 1958. 8°. 9 pages. Softcover. Offprint form “The Review of Metaphysics” – 1958.

36. Matthiesen, F.O.

The Humanities in War Time.

Harvard Album, 1943. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Frontcover slightly fingerstained. Very good.

37. McKeon, Richard.

The Philosophic Bases of Art and Criticism.

Modern Philology, 1944. 8°. 62 pages. Softcover. Part I and II (complete). Offprint from “Modern Philology” – 1943-1944.

38. Mon, Franz.

man muß was tun.

8°. 4-seitiger Flyer zum Jahreswechsel des Luchterhand-Verlags. Softcover. Mit Namenszug des Luchterhand-Lektors (Frank) Benseler.

39. Neumann, Erich.

Die Angst vor dem Weiblichen [Fear of the Feminine].

Rascher Verlag, 1949. 8°. 45 Seiten. Softcover. Originale Broschur. Separatabdruck aus “Die Angst” – Band X. (1949).

40. Newbolt, Sir Henry.

Poetry and Time. [Warton Lecture on English Poetry IX].

1st Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1918. 8°. 17 Pages. Original stapled wrappers (softcover). Good condition with minor signs of wear – corners and edges bumped. No text markings. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VIII.]

41. Nock, Arthur Darby.

Faiths and Symbols. An introduction by Arthur Darby Nock. For an exhibition held in the Gallery of The Century Association during April 1943.

New York, The Century Association, 1943. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover / Original printed wrappers. Near fine.

42. Pepper, Stephen C.

Whitehead’s “Actual Occasion”.

New Orleans, Tulane University, 1961. 8°. 17 pages. Stapled offprint from “Tulane Studies in Philosophy” – Volume X. Excellent condition. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

43. Perry, Charner.

Two offprints: 1. The Semantics of Political Science / 2. The Rationale of Political Discussion.

American Political Science Review / American Philosophical Association, 1950 – 1955. 8°. 9, 13 pages. Softcover. Both offprints in very good+ condition (1950-1955).

44. Rieff, Philip.

Two offprints: 1. History, Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences (1953) / 2. The Authority of the Past – Sickness and Society in Freud’s Thought (1954) //

Social Research, 1953 – 1954. 8°. 13, 23 pages. Softcover. Stapled. Only slightly stained. Rare !

45. Samuel, The RT. Hon. Viscount.

On Style. Presidential Address 1941.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1941. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Pen in margin made on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

46. Sarton, George.

The Incubation of Western Culture in the Middle East. A George C. Keiser Foundation Lecture delivered by George Sarton, Professor of History of Science, Harvard University in The Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, March 29, 1950.

Washington, The Library of Congress, 1951. 8°. 45 pages. Softcover. Very good condition.

47. Schapiro, Meyer.

Style.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1953. 8°. 25 pages. Softcover. Original offprint for private circulation only – From “Anthropology Today” – 1953.

48. Schapiro, Meyer / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

The Still Life as a Personal Object – A note on Heidegger and van Gogh.

4°. 7 pages. Stapled offprint from “The Reach of Mind: Essays in Memory of Kurt Goldstein” – 1968. Sent by Schapiro to Henry David Aiken (this lot includes the original envelope).

49. Schlick, Moritz.

Causality in Contemporary Physics [Includes: “Indeterminateness of Nature and Freedom of the Will”]. Translated by D.Rynin (First published in “Die Naturwissenschaften,1931”).

Edinburgh, 1961. 8°. 21 pages. Softcover. Offprint form “The British Journal for The Philosophy of Science” – 1967.

50. Sharp, Gene / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal.

New York, World Policy Institute, 1980. Octavo. 15 pages. Offprint / Pamphlet. This essay first appeared in the World Without War Issues Center-Midwest Newsletter, Dec 1980. Very good copy in publisher’s wrappers. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

51. Simpson, George.

Science as Morality – An essay towards Unity [I. The Scientist: Technician or Moralist ? / II. The Assault on Social Science / III. The Conduct of Sociologists / IV. Science as Morality] Including an original letter by Simpson to Wolff, on his Brooklyn College Stationery and stapled to it a typescript of Kurt Wolff’s letter to Simpson.

Yellow Springs, The American Humanist Association, 1953. 8°. 60 pages. Softcover. From the library of Kurt H. Wolff. With several annotations by Wolff. Includes a typescript of a letter by Wolff to Simpson regarding this essay as well as an original letter with Simpsons answer to Wolff. Wolff criticizes Simpson briefly but has also positive things to say – Simpson answers Wolff that he is “supposed to draw up a code of standards for sociologists”. Very interesting document on american sociology !

52. Skinner, B.F.

Has Gertrude Stein a Secret ?

First Edition Offprint. Atlantic Monthly, 1934. 8°. 8 pages. Stapled Softcover. Original offprint from “The Atlantic Monthly” (1959).

53. Strong, E.W.

On Judging History.

Yellow Springs, Ohio, The Antioch Press, 1952. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Offprint. Presidential address – delivered before the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Pacific-Division of the American Philosophical Association at the University of Southern California – 1952.

54. Sumner, Charles.

No Property in Man. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution Abolishing Slavery Through the United States, in the Senate of the United States, April 8th, 1864.

New York, The Loyal Publication Society, 1864. 8°. 23 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure in near fine condition. [The Loyal Publication Society – No. 51].

55. Sumner, Charles.

Two Pamphlets: “Our Claims on England” Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered in executive session of the Senate, April 13, 1869 on The Johnson-Clarendon Treaty for the Settlement of Claims / AND: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner on the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty for the Settlement of Claims delivered in the U.S.Senate. With an Appendix.

Washington/Boston, Rives & Bailey/Wright & Potter, 1869/1870. 8°. 14, 69 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlets. The original speech of 1869 waterstained and with some tears and chips (unopened). The later printing with appendix: Original printed wrappers. Very good plus condition with some dogears and a small tear to front cover.

56. Temple, The Most Rev. William.

The Genius of Poetry. Presidential Address 1939.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1939. 8°. 15 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Very Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Copy of F.W.Roe, with is name on cover and pen markings on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

57. Ward, J.P.

The Killing of Kin – A study of Greek Tragedy and Social Interactionism.

Saint David’s University College, 1979. 8°. 46 pages. Softcover. Original wrappers. Near fine condition. [Trivium 14]

58. Webster, Daniel.

Speech of Hon. Daniel Webster, to the Young Men of Albany. Wednesday, May 28, 1851. / And : Mr. Webster’s Speeches at Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany, May 1851.

Two (2) Original Pamphlets. (n.p.), Gideon & Co., (1851). 8°. 29, 56 pages. Softcover. Original brochures in very good condition. Only a little dusty.