Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936. 8vo, blue buckram cloth, gilt titles, 223pp. First American Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (2.00) heavily toned to panels, quarter loss to front panel, chipping to edges and flaps. Maritain expounds a conception of freedom and free will in modern society, a key work in the development.....
Longmans, Green and Co, 1930. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles, 272pp. Early printing. Light fading to spine edges and bumping to corners, toning to pages. Contents clean, binding firm. A brief outline of philosophical principles by the French scholastic and proponent of the Thomistic revival. Translation from the eleventh French.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. First Edition. 8vo (6x9), beige buckram cloth, burgundy titles, 176pp. First Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket. Panels of dust jacket mildly rubbed. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Five essays on philosophy of history by the Thomist philosopher. A nearly fine copy in mylar.
Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 8vo, black cloth, gilt and silver titles, gold endpapers, 277pp. First Edition, so stated. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95), toning to flaps, edge wear to panels. Series of essays by the Catholic philosopher, addressing theological concerns in the contemporary church. A nearly fine copy in mylar.....
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958. 8vo, black cloth, silver titles, 205pp. Third printing C-7.58[V]. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50), mildly worn at edges, minor chips to panels, rubbing and toning. Essays on American social issues by the French philosopher, spun from lectures delivered at the the University of Chicago. Covers race, materialism.....
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958. 8vo, black cloth, silver titles stamped in blind, 205pp. Third printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) toned to panels, chipped, closed tears at flaps, ex libris bookplate to front endpaper. Musings on the American political landscape by the French Scholastic philosopher. From the personal library of Television.....
The Newman Press, 1959. 8vo, aqua blue cloth, gilt titles, 106pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) mildly toned to panels. Boards faded to outer edges, endpapers toned. Contents clean, binding firm. A clarifying essay on the free will and nature of angels in the writings of Thomas Aquinas. Translated.....
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950. 8vo, forest green full cloth, gilt titles, 234pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50 inked price stamp) mildly toned to panels, sunned to spine. Endpapers toned, minimal fading to board corners and spine ends. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Three critical essays on the thought.....
Librarie Plon, 1925. 8vo, softcover wrappers, uncut page leaves, 282pp. First edition, the principal volume in the Roseau d’Or series by Plon. Ex-libris copy from the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame University. Association copy, inscribed by the philosopher to Noemi Renan, daughter of Ernest Renan (1823-1892), French orientalist scholar.....
Partisan Review, 1950. 8vo, softcover wrappers, 139pp. Wrappers heavily toned, sunned. Contents clean, binding firm. Brief conjectures and observations on the state of religion in relationship to modern secular thought by a varied cast of novelists, poets and scholars, among them Marianne Moore, Allen Tate, Dwight Macdonald, Robert Graves, John.....
Albany, NY: Magi Books, 1974. 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 404pp. First Edition. Unpriced dust jacket with faint chips to spine edges, moderate rubbing to rear panel. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Selections from the journal of the Russian born French poet, Catholic mystic and philosopher, edited by her.....