“Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound.
Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper. Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book. Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms. Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. 
Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid. A very scarce copy in exceptional condition. Rawls received the National Humanities Medal in 1999 for his body of work.īook fine, only lightest edge-wear to about-fine dust jacket. This work has been called “the most substantial and interesting contribution to moral philosophy since the war” ( The New York Review of Books), and Rawls himself “will be in the canon for centuries, along with Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Mill” ( Harvard Gazette). Thirty years after publication of A Theory of Justice, with all the discussion of rights and pluralism that has ensued, it is easy to forget that a whole generation of our political and moral philosophers had virtually stopped talking about that idea, and about how it can guide a religiously and ethnically diverse society like our own” ( Chronicle of Higher Education). In it, Rawls “gave new specificity and vigor to one of the most valuable legacies of the liberal political tradition: the idea that a person has a dignity and worth that social structures should not be permitted to violate. John Rawls “was arguably the most important political philosopher of the 20th century… His first book, A Theory of Justice, revitalized the social-contract tradition, using it to articulate and defend a detailed vision of egalitarian liberalism.” ( Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition, first printing, of John Rawls’ landmark work of political philosophy, in scarce dust jacket. Octavo, original purple cloth, original dust jacket. 
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
“THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL AND INTERESTING CONTRIBUTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY SINCE THE WAR”
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