Edited Herbert Spencer (19 results)

MM paperback, taped edges. Reprint. First draft version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a fascinating and different novel in its own right. Acceptable PB reading copy. Scarce book. 230 pp Good unmarked, tanned pp, loose binding.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Midway Reprint. lvii, 241 pp.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Originally published in 1833. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xxxi + 223 pages, gilt titles and blue cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white, but with foxing to the endpapers. In a good, moderately edge worn dust jacket with light exterior soiling.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 253 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine--. Bright and attractive trade paperback. Cambridge texts in history of political thought. 2001. very nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illus wraps, 8vo, VG+, 96p, includes 3 poems by Neruda. Tiny bit of wear at spine heel else crease-free, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. 223 pages. Green cloth covers with gold illustration and lettering. Former library book with stamps only, no pockets or spine call letters. Covers with mild edge wear. Spine sunned and lettering faded. Some foxing to endpapers. Binding tight. Book contains the original illustrations of the 1828 edition and hitherto unpublished portraits of the Macmichael family and a reproduction of his handwriting as well as the biographies of Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, Pitcairn, and Baillie, the successive holders of the cane.

VG orig. brown boards in lt. rubbed, price-clipped silver dj. vii, 257 p.; 22.5 cm. (Tutor books. The making of sociology series) Contents -- Introduction, by Ronald Fletcher -- Introductory essay: sociology, biology and philosophy in Herbert Spencer. The unity of science and the key concept of evolution, Evolution in culture and society, Empirical data and comparative method, Functionalism, Social Darwinism and problems of ethics -- Part one. A science of society, (A) Nature of the social science -- Part two. Evolution, (A) Evolution and dissolution, (B-D) The law of evolution -- Part three. Society: structure and function: classification and comparison: change and evolution, (A) What is a society? (B) A society is an organism, (C) Social growth, (D) Social structures, (E) Social functions, (F) Systems of organs, (G) Social types and constitutions, (H) Social metamorphoses -- Part four. Specific problems and general concerns: conflict and power in society, (A) The constitution of the state, (B) Party government, (C) The great political superstition, (D) Imperialism and slavery, (E) Patriotism, (F) The man versus the state: postscript, (G) Re-barbarization, (H) Conclusions, (I) General considerations on social philosophy -- Bibliography -- Index. -- `the ultimate man will be one whose private requirements conicide with public ones. He will be that manner of man who, in spontaneously fulfilling his own nature, incidentally performs the functions of a social unit; and yet is only enabled so to fulfil his own nature by all others doing the like.' (p. 215, 240) -- `human beings are cruel to one another in proportion as their habits are predatory.' (p. 216). 1st ed. thus. Binding is Hardcover.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Herbert Spencer (Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition: 1984/Copyright İ 1984 by Lu. 127 + pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Stains on bottom edge near spine.

Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + DJ. Frontispiece, Drawings (illustrator). First Edition Thus. 223 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. This Edition Contains The Original Illustrations Of The 1828 Edition, Hitherto Unpublished Portraits Of The Macmichael Family, Etc. Book Near Fine, Clean And Unmarked But With The Usual Foxing At The Gutter Edge Of The Endpapers. Dj Complete, Tiny Chip At Top Of Spine, Price Inked Out Neatly On Front Flap.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback. Very Good condition in black cloth, title in red. In a Very Good dustjacket, with a few small chips and minor tears at edges. The Penrose Annual 1971, the 64th in this long-running international review of the graphic arts. Printed on a variety of different paper stocks and copiously illustrated, with occasional pasted-in inserts and 1 fold-out leaf. 295 x 210 mm. 216 pp + occasional unpaginated leaves & section of adverts at back. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very good +. first edition. 9 x 11 in. 57 pp. plus adverts. Paper wraps. Lavish B&W plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, minor wear to edges. Binding tight. Text spotless. Art. RGR.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 57, [7] pages + a narrow leaf at the rear which gives details of Numbers 1-12. Overlays to pages 44 and 45. In the original card covers with the printed dustwrapper. The rear cover of the dustwrapper is soiled and the lower outer corner is torn and creased - the card cover below is also creased. Pages 7-10 are detached and loose. Contents are: Tombstone lettering on slate - Frederick Burgess; Hong Kong signs - Henry Steiner; Aesthetic pattern programmes - Eckhard Neumann; Type size a system of dimensional references - Ernest Hoch and Maurice Goldring; Of the just shaping of letters reviewed by James Sutton. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SPENCER, Herbert [edited and published by] Drake Publishers Inc. 1971 14 1/2" x 10 3/4" The most exciting photographic book ever created on equestrian sport. CHAKKAR: The Indian word from which we derive 'chukker', the period of play in a polo game. The book is not only to introduce the game to a large number of potential polo supporters, but will also stimulate the polo world to further and more enthusiastic efforts to promote this great game. Book includes a list of Polo Clubs of the world compiled by the National Polo Associations. 8 celebrity polo players submitted essays, which are included. Contains essays by Prince Philip, Hanut Singh, Earl Mountbatten, Juan Carlos Harriott, Cecil Smith, Ricardo Santamarina, Baron de Rothschild and Robert Skene. Designed by Nicholas Fassbind.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SPENCER, Herbert [edited by] [224] pp. Hastings House Publishers 1970 12" x 8 3/4".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. All volumes complete with card wraps. Light rubs to surfaces and extremities. A light touch of foxing to the top edges of the page blocks. An attractive and well preserved set of 11/16 volumes.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Complete in 16 volumes. Books measure 27.5x21.cm. Bound in original publishers illustrated softcovers. Covers lightly rubbed, minor wear. All bindings in very good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice clean set. F Size: Quarto.