Curculio Scholarly Books Philosophy and History Catalogue

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Ancient Philosophy and History

Plato:

• R. D. Archer-Hind (ed.), The Timaeus of Plato, 1973 Ayer reprint of 1888 London edition. Ugly library binding. Fine, no DJ, as issued. $90.00.
• Alan F. Blum, Socrates: The Original and its Images, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. NF/VG. $16.00. (12/07)
• Ronna Burger, The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth. NF: corners very slightly rubbed, otherwise pristine, no DJ. $80.00. (12/07)
• John Burnett, Sophistes and Politicus of Plato, 1973 Ayer reprint of 1867 Oxford edition. Cover slightly worn, one tiny spot and a light smudge on page edges, contents totally clean and tight, apparently unread. Ugly library binding. No DJ, as issued. $90.00.
• G. M. A. Grube, Plato's Thought. Paper, cover slightly discolored by water damage, especially on back, all pages slightly wrinkled in bottom half. Entirely readable: nothing even slightly stuck together. In print at $10.95. Our price: $4.00.
• J. Harward, The Platonic Epistles, Arno Press, 1976 reprint of 1932 Cambridge edition. Ugly library binding. Cloth, no DJ (as issued).  NF. $28.00. (12/07)
• Jacob Klein, Plato's Trilogy: Theaetetus, the Sophist and the Statesman, U. Chicago, 1977. Cloth NF/VG+ except some spotting on out page edges. $40.00. (12/07)
• Richard Kraut, Socrates and the State, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1984. Cloth, no DJ. Near Fine. $30.00. (12/07)
• J. Moore-Blunt (ed.), Plato: Epistulae, Teubner, Leipzig, 1985. F, no DJ. In print at $29.95. Our price: $20.00. (12/07)
• Paul Shorey, The Unity of Plato's Thought. 1980 Garland reprint of 1904 Chicago edition. Handsomely bound for a reprint. NF. $30.00. (12/07)
• Marion Soreth, Der Platonische Dialog Hippias Maior, Zetemata Monographien zur klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, Heft 6, Munich, 1953. Paper, 64 pages. VG: browned, binding  fragile, some wear to bottom edges, corners bumped, text clean and tight. $15.00. (12/07)
• R. F. Stalley, An Introduction to Plato's Laws, Hackett, 1983. F/F. In print at $46.50. Our price: $34.00.
• Martinus Wohlrab (ed.), Platonis Theatetus, 1980 Garland reprint of 1891 Leipzig Teubner edition with Latin commentary. Handsomely bound for a reprint. NF: slight rubbing of corners is the only thing keeping it from being Fine. $100.00. (12/07)

Aristotle -- Half-Price Oxford Classical Texts: (12/07)
For half-priced Loeb Aristotles, see the Classics page.

• Special offer:  All four titles for $100.00, with free book-rate postage within the U.S. (if you buy all four).
• Aristotelis De Anima, ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford Classical Text:  1963 reprint of 1956 first edition. Cloth, NF/VG:  spine dingy, rest of cover slightly dingy, pos, text totally clean and tight. In print at $45.00. Our price: $22.50.
• Aristotelis Metaphysica, ed. W. Jaeger, Oxford Classical Text:  1969 reprint of 1957 first edition. Cloth, NF/VG:  spine dingy, rest of cover slightly dingy, a couple of light spots on page edge, pos, text totally clean and tight. In print at $70.00. Our price: $35.00.
• Aristotelis Physica, ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford Classical Text:  1966 corrected reprint of 1950 first edition. Cloth, NF/VG:  spine dingy, rest of cover slightly dingy, pos, text totally clean and tight. In print at $48.95. Our price: $24.50.
• Aristotelis Politica, ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford Classical Text:  1973 reprint of 1957 first edition. Cloth, NF/VG:  spine dingy, rest of cover slightly dingy, pos, text totally clean and tight. In print at $45.00. Our price: $22.50.

Other Aristotles:

• Aristoteles, De Arte Poetica Liber, ed. Iohannes Vahlen, 3rd edition, Berlin, 1885, reprinted by Georg Olms of Hildesheim, 1964 (Olms Paperbacks 5). Paper, lower right corner bent, cover a bit shelfworn, otherwise NF -- pages totally clean and tight. $23.00. (12/07)
• Aristotle's Metaphysics, A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary by W. D. Ross. Two volumes, Oxford University Press, 1975 reprint of the 1924 first edition. Note: This is not the 1997 Sandpiper reprint. NF/NF. $90.
• Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated with commentaries and glossary by Hippocrates G. Apostle, Indiana University Press, VG except POS in tattered DJ. In print at $40. Our price: $20.
• Aristotle, Metaphysics Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, translated with notes by Christopher Kirwan. Oxford, 1971, Clarendon Aristotle Series. Paper, VG except pos, edges worn, cover rubbed, insides clean and tight. $25.00.
• Aristotle, Prior and Posterior Analytics, ed. David Ross, Garland Press, 1980 reprint of original 1949 Oxford edition. NF, no DJ (as issued). $90.

Other Philosophy -- Mostly Epicureans:

• Special offer:  Both of the following titles (a matched pair) for $75.00.
• C. W. Chilton, Diogenes of Oenoanda: The Fragments, A Translation and Commentary, Oxford University Press for the University of Hull, 1971. F/F with clear plastic cover over original DJ, except lightly penciled price inside back cover. $55.00.
• Diogenis Oenoandensis Fragementa, ed. C. W. Chilton, Teubner, 1967. Cloth, no DJ, F except for tiny inked price inside back cover. Out of print: $25.00.
• Epicurus, Epistulae Tres et Ratae Sententiae, ed. P. von der Muehll, Teubner, 1982 reprint of 1922 edition. Paper, NF. In print at $28. Our price: $18.00. (12/07)
• J. M. Rist, Plotinus: The Road to Reality. Cambridge U. Press, 1980 reprint of 1977 paperback edition of 1967 original. Paper: NF. $36.00. (12/07)
• The Pythagorean Golden Verses, with Introduction and Commentary by Johan C. Thom. E. J. Brill, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Series, 1995. F/F. $200.00.  (12/07)

Miscellaneous -- Mostly Ancient History:

• F. E. Adcock, The Roman Art of War Under the Republic. Martin Classical Lectures VIII. 1981 Barnes & Noble unaltered reprint of 1960 Heffer slightly altered reprint of 1940 Harvard University Press original. Cloth, no dj (as issued?), NF. $10.00.
• Norman H. Baynes, The Hellenistic Civilization and East Rome, The James Bryce Memorial Lecture, Somerville College, Oxford, 17 November 1945. Paper, 48 pages. Slightly soiled front and back, spine slightly cracked, contents NF. $3.50.
• Martin Bernal, Black Athena, Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985. Rutgers, 1987. Paper, VG (cover a bit scratched and bent, contents totally clean). $8.00.
• Anthony Bridge, Theodora: Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape. Cassell, London, 1978. NF/NF. $9.00.
• Robert Browning, Justinian and Theodora. Thames & Hudson, revised edition, 1987. F/NF except inked pos, penciled price inside front cover. $10.00.
• Jacob Burkhardt, Judgments on History and Historians, translated by Harry Zohn, with an introduction by H. R. Trevor-Roper, Beacon Press, 1958. Ugly library binding, VG, a bit dingy and front cover slightly wrinkled on outside edge, insides clean and tight. $27.00.
• J. B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, two volumes, Dover reprints. Paper, NF. $10.00. (12/07)
• Historia Philosophiae Graecae: Testimonia Auctorum conlegerunt notisque instruxerunt H. Ritter et L. Preller, 7th edition, revised by Fr. Schultess and Ed. Wellmann, Gotha, 1888. Cloth. Condition: outside is worn, especially on corners, spine skillfully repaired, penned shelf number on spine. Inside: front and rear hinges weak, library date-stamp slip, pocket, and charge card inside back cover.  (Last checked out by V. Cernansky in 1949.) Title page detached and missing parts around all four sides, next sheet (containing two-page preface) partially detached and missing bits of right edge, third sheet missing bits of right edge, folded on lower corner, last sheet (containing last 2 pages of index) detached but complete. Despite these losses, no text is missing from any page, and all pages are (at least partially) present. Text seems totally clean and unmarked. $10.00.
• Walter Kaufmann, Tragedy and Philosophy, Princeton, 1968. Paper, VG: contents totally clean, outside a bit worn and slightly bent. $11.00.
• Arnoldo Momigliano, Contributi alla Storia degli Studi Classici e del Mondo Antico I-IX, complete in six single and three double volumes. Paper, NF, pages cut, pos, contents totally clean and tight. $900.00. All except VIII are out of print, though most can be bought separately used in various conditions for various (mostly high) prices. As a set, it is: (12/07)
• Theodor Mommsen, The Provinces of the Roman Empire: The European Provinces. ed. T. R. S. Broughton. U. Chicago Press, 1968. Paper, NF/VG: totally clean and tight inside, slightly worn outside. $6.00.
• L. R. Palmer, Achaeans and Indo-Europeans; an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 4 November 1954. Oxford, 1955. Paper, VG. $3.50.
• H. M. D. Parker, The Roman Legions. 1971 Heffer/Barnes & Noble unaltered reprint of 1958 Heffer corrected reprint of 1928 Oxford edition. Cloth, NF/NF except corners bumped. $7.00.
• Colin Renfrew, Archaeology & Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins, Cambridge University Press, 1987. NF/NF except 4 tiny spots on front cover, small tear on 1 corner of jacket. $25.00.
• Leo Strauss, On Tyranny, revised and expanded edition, including the Strauss-Kojève correspondence, The Free Press, New York, 1991. Large paperback, NF. In print at $18.00. Our price: $12.00.
• Wilhelm Vischer, Kleine Schriften, Erster Band, Historische Schriften, ed. H. Gelzer, Leipzig, 1877, 615 pages. Contains 14 articles, on Kimon, Perdikkas II, Epaminondas, Alcibiades and Lysander, the use of old comedy as a historical source, the historicity of the speeches in Thucydides, specific passages of Isocrates and Polybius, lots more, also four hefty reviews. Original leather, worn all around, top of spine torn but all there, no dj (of course), pages brittle, first two sheets (both blank) detached but present, some others loose but still attached, library bookplate and 'withdrawn' stamp inside front cover, charge sheet (stamped "13 Jul'38") and pocket with card inside back cover, apparently never checked out. $10.00.

Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy and History

• Georges Duby, France in the Middle Ages, 987-1460, Basil Blackwell, 1991. NF/NF. $24.00.
• Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne, with a foreword by Sidney Painter, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 11th printing, 1979. Paper, VG+. $4.00.
• Charles Homer Haskins, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, Harvard, 1927, 8th printing, 1982. Paper, VG+: two corners slightly bent, ugly price sticker on front cover, contents totally clean. $4.00.
• Le Roy Ladurie, Carnival in Romans, George Braziller, 1979. Cloth, NF/VG+. $14.00.
• Anthony Quinton, Francis Bacon, Oxford Past Masters series, New York, Hill & Wang, 1981. F/NF.
• Winthrop Wetherbee, The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris, Columbia University Press, 1990. Near Fine in wax paper (as issued) dust jacket. Jacket is wrinkled and missing a 1" piece in the back. $36.00.

Modern Philosophy and History

• Max Alter, Carl Menger and the Origins of Austrian Economics. Westview Press, 1990. Out of print. $32.00.
• A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times. This is Volume 5 of 5. General Editors: Philippe Ariès and George Duby. Editors: Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent. Harvard, 1991. NF/VG+. $12.00.
• John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, a critical edition with an introduction and apparatus criticus by Peter Laslett. Second edition, Cambridge University Press, 1970. VG in creased and slightly torn wax paper jacket (as issued). Would be NF except for three tiny spots on back cover, unobtrusive streak on front cover. Contents F. $50.00.
• Markovic, Mihailo, Dialectical Theory of Meaning, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA; London, England: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 81. ISBN:9027715963. In print at $348.00 (sic). Our price: only $130.00.
• Forrest McDonald & Ellen Shapiro McDonald, Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes. U. Kansas, 1988. NF/G. Out of print. $10.00.
• David L. Norton, Democracy and Moral Development: A Politics of Virtue. California, 1991. NF/NF. In print at $25.00. Our price: $12.00.
• David L. Norton, Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism. Princeton, 1976. Paper: lower front corner bent, back cover soiled, contents totally clean and tight. In print at $33.00. Our price: $13.00.
• Daniel Pipes, Russia under the Old Regime. Scribner's, 1974. VG/G. $20.00.
• Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom. Oxford, 1986. Paper, VG+: cover a bit scratched and wrinkled, contents totally clean and tight. In print at $35.00. Our price: $21.00.
• Thomas Reid, Practical Ethics, Being Lectures and Papers on Natural religion, Self-Government, Natural Jurisprudence, and the Law of Nations. Edited from the manuscripts with an introduction and commentary by Knud Haakonssen. Princeton, 1990. F/F. $44.00.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du Contrat Social. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Ronald Grimsley. Critical edition of the French text, with notes in English, but no translation. Oxford University Press, 1972. NF/VG. $45.00.
• Thao, Tran Duc, Investigations into the Origins of Language and Consciousness, Dordrecht, Holland; Boston, USA; London, England: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 44. ISBN:9027708274. In print at $174.50. Our price: $100.00.
• Thao, Tran D.; Herman, Daniel J.; Morano, Donald V. Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, No. 49) Norwell, MA, U.S.A.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 49. In print at $193.50. Our price: $110.00.
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War: the Oldest Military Treatise in the World, translated from the Chinese with introduction and critical notes by Lionel Giles, M.A. Publication information is all in Chinese, so I can't read it. The very detailed English notes also have a great deal of Chinese in them. The book looks to be 20-30 years old. VG/VG. Front edge dented, one thread loose on back (as manufactured), boards not entirely flat (again probably as manufactured), otherwise very handsome. $20.00.

History over Multiple Eras

• Philippe Aries and Georges Duby, general editors, A History of Private Life, complete in 5 volumes. Cloth: NF/VG+, contents totally clean and tight, covers very slightly wrinkled on some edges. Set: $75.00. (12/07)
• Daniel Boorstin, The Creators: History of Heroes of the Imagination. Random House, 1992, 800+ pages. NF/NF. $20.00.
• Henry Corbin, Histoire de la Philosophie Islamique I: Des Origines jusqu'a la Mort d'Averroës (1198). NRF/Gallimard, 1964. Paper: cover bent on one corner, pages slightly browned, starting to come loose but still far from detached in two places. $7.00.
• Peter Paret (ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy: from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton, 1986. 940 pages. Paper. NF. In print at $29.95. Our price: $18.00.

Critical Theory and Such

• Louis Althusser, For Marx. Verso, 1979. Paper, NF (one corner slightly bent, contents totally clean). $9.00.
• Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Monthly Review Press, 1971. Paper, VG (cover rubbed, contents totally clean). $22.00.
• Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil, Urizen Books, New York, 1973. Paper, VG. $10.00.
• Gilles Deleuze, Logique du Sens (in French), Les Editions de Minuit, 1969. Paper, cover slightly bent, spine slightly soiled, price penciled on front end paper, contents clean and tight: call it VG+. $32.00.
• Paul Hernadi (ed.), What is Criticism? Indiana, 1981. NF/VG. Out of print. $16.00.
• Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response, Johns Hopkins, 1978. Paper, VG. In print at $19.95. Our price: $10.00.
• Hans Robert Jauss, Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics, Theory and History of Literature, Volume 3. U. Minnesota, 1982. Paper, VG (a bit worn around edges, pigment scraped off in two spots on front, one on back, contents clean and tight). Out of print. $45.00.
• Hans Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception, Theory and History of Literature, Volume 2. U. Minnesota, 1992. Paper, VG+ (a bit worn around edges, contents clean and tight). In print at $17.95. Our price: $10.00.
• Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art., Columbia, 1980. Cloth: some mold between cover and dustjacket, otherwise NF. Could be rebound: no mold on the inside. Cloth out of print, paperback in print at $22.50. Our price: $4.00.
• Georg Lukács, Essays on Realism. MIT, 1981. VG+ in slightly musty DJ. $22.00.
• Michael Ryan, Marxism and Deconstruction: a Critical Articulation. Johns Hopkins, 1982. Out of print. VG/VG except scratch/dent in front cover (hidden by DJ). $10.00.
• Edward W. Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic. Harvard, 1983. VG/VG. $6.00.
• Susan R. Suleiman and Inge Crosman (edd.), The Reader in the Text. Princeton, 1980. NF/VG. $40.00.
• Robert Young, Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader. Routledge, 1981. Out of print, no used copies listed on Amazon or ABE. NF/VG (back of DJ torn at bottom). $50.00.