William Ernest Hocking, Signed (3 results)

HOCKING, William Ernest. RE-THINKING MISSION: A LAYMENS' INQUIRY AFTER ONE HUNDRED YEARS. NY: Harper and Brothers, 1932. 8vo., black cloth. Second Printing. Signed presentation from Commission of Appraisal member Georgiana Sibley on the front endpaper: "Harriet Aldrich- Her Book, with the deep regard of one of her oldest friends and one of the least of the Commissioners, Georgiana Sibley. Christmas 1932." Very Good (Aldrich's bookplate front pastedown, numerous pencil notations by Aldrich on the rear endpapers). $50.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bright, unclipped dust jacket with gentle edge wear and age-toned spine strip. Tight binding, solid blue boards, some loss to bright gilt lettering on spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout. In mylar cover. Inscribed and dated by author to "George Kline (March 3, 1921 - October 21, 2014) was a philosopher, translator (esp. of Russian philosophy and poetry), and prominent American specialist in Russian and Soviet philosophy, author of more than 300 publications." (Wikipedia). Inscribed by Author(s).

unbound. 1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, Cambridge, MA, July 10, 1963, responding to a New York City attorney who has requested his autograph, in full: "This is a curious request -- not in itself, but as from a New York attorney, presumably busy with the infinite social and economic problems of an overgrown metropolis. But your office is in the neighborhood of the New School for Social Research -- an old haunt of mine, and of many friends; and perhaps this is a bit of extra-curricular activity. Anyhow -- morituras (within few years) saluto." Also included is an unsigned 3.5 x 5-inch black-and-white snapshot dated September 1962. Fine condition. American idealist philosopher at Harvard University.