New York, NY, USA: The American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Inc., 1965. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage 1965 number of the venerable literary & cultural journal then-chiefly edited by William Phillips & Philip Rahv Features a (somewhat snooty if you ask us) review of Saul Bellow's (1915-2005) now-classic novel Herzog by Richard Poirier (1925-2009), the noted American literary critic who co-founded the canonical Library of America (pgs. 264-271). Also in..... More

New York, NY: The Philosophical Library, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. "A well-known French philosopher and poet, speaking from a philosophical milieu which he helped to create, surveys "existentialism" and philosophies of existence in an informal, yet critical, fashion. Philosophy of existence is viewed as a "perennial philosophy," ancient as inspired existential thought, recent as the eloquent reaction of the great Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard, to the idealism of Hegel..... More