Translated Daniel Coogan (3 results)

Printed in the U.S.A. [Date from the copyright page.] First Printing of this translation into English. Preface, Introduction, xi, [iii], 234 pages. The original cloth is very good, despite touches of fading, with corners square and black lettering bold on the spine. The interior is creamy-bright and completely free of any marks except an unobtrusive signature in ink on the front pastedown, with date. The original unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket, with a portrait of the author on the rear panel, has one smallish tear on the front panel and several small chips at the extremities---not affecting text or portrait. [Please see my eight images of the actual book.] "Assuming a divine plan for the passage of events in the world, the author shows in what ways the great saint-founders cooperated with this plan and inserted an influence on secular as well as religious affairs. § Written by a layman, the work deals in a popular way with religion, philosophy, history, and sociology. § From 1946 Walter Dirks was co-editor (with Eugen Kogen) of the 'Frankfurter Hefte,' one of the most active magazines of the new German democracy."---From the dust jacket. As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing in black-stamped green and beige cloth boards and price-clipped dust jacket, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, jacket edge-chipped and toned with a little quiet soil rear panel, neat name and small namestamp to endpapers, else Fine copy of the scarce American (true) First Edition, which preceded the British edition by a year (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; 128pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed in the U.S.A. [Date from the copyright page.] First Printing. Introduction, Two Essays, End Notes; 128 pages. The original green cloth, with beige cloth on the spine, is in excellent shape; corners are square, black-lettering is bold on the spine, and a cross-in-blind adorns the upper board. The interior is fresh, crisp, and completely clean. The original dust jacket has its price ($2.75) but shows some wear, with a sunned spine and several chips; one closed tear at the spine base. [Please see my five images of the actual book.] There is a picture of Pieper on the rear panel with a blurb from T.S. Eliot: "His sentences are admirably constructed, his ideas expressed with the maximum clarity. But his mind is submissive to what he believes to be the great, the main tradition of European thought. . . . He restores to their position in philosophy what common sense obstinately tells us ought to be found there: 'insight and wisdom'." As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.