Recent Arrivals from Eternal Return Antiquarian Bookshop

Chemnitz: Schmeitzner, 1878. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. NIETZSCHE, Friedrich, Die Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy). Schmeitzner, Chemnitz, 1878. TP + [III]-IV + [1]-144, Octavo. The famous Second Edition, First Issue of Nietzsche's first book. (Schaberg 30). The publication history of Nietzsche s Birth of Tragedy is about as complicated as any. The 143-page… Read more about this item

Paris: chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1821. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Equality of Opportunity SAINT SIMON, Claude-Henri. Du système industriel. Paris: chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1821. Half-title + TP + [i] - xx = Preface + half-title + [3] - 311 + blank leaf. Octavo. First Edition in original wrappers. Saint-Simon's Socialism put forth in Du système industriel… Read more about this item

Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. What is Enlightenment? KANT, Immanuel. Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? (Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?) in Berlinische Monatsschrift. Haude & Spener, Berlin, 1784. [viii], 576 pp. 12mo. First Printing [Warda 85]. First printing of Kant's famous reply to the question 'What is Enlightenment?'… Read more about this item

à Genève: à Genève, 1782. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. One of the First Autobiographies, in the Tradition of Augustine ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Confessions. à Genève, 1782. Vol 1: Half-title + TP + [1] - 471; Vol 2: Half-title + TP + [1] - 279 + [1] - 300. 2-volume octavo. First Edition. First edition of… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Bossange, 1802. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. Bentham’s Legal Utilitarianism BENTHAM, Jeremy. Traités de législation civile et pénale. Paris: Chez Bossange, 1802. Vol 1: Half-title + TP + v - xx + [1] - 434; Vol 2: Half-title + TP + v - xlii + [1] - 370; Vol 3: Half-title + TP + v… Read more about this item

[France]: n.p., 1722. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Clandestine Atheism from the Radical Enlightenment FRERET, (Nicolas), Lettre de Thrasybule a Leucipe [sic], Traduite du Grec, n.p., [France], 1722. FFEP + blank leaf + TP + 2 leaves = Fragment + 2 leaves = Preface + 1 - 281 + 2 blank leaves + RFEP, small octavo. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT COPY. Nicholas… Read more about this item

Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1941. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. ORTEGA Y GASSET, Jose, Historia Como Sistema (History as a System), Revista de Occidente, Madrid, 1941. 1 leaf + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = dedication + 9 - [171] + 2 leaves = indice + 2 leaves = colophon. Existentialism, history, and perspectivism by one… Read more about this item

Petersburg: Fyodor Stellovsky, 1865. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. The first book form of Dostoevsky's Existential classic DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [The Complete Works of Dostoevsky, Edited and Supplemented by the Author], volume II, St Petersburg, Fyodor Stellovsky, 1865. 1 blank leaf + TP +  Half-title + half-title + [7] - 256 + 1 leaf =… Read more about this item

Groningen: J. B. Wolters, 1935. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. JASPERS,Karl. Vernunft und Existenz (Reason and Existence). J. B. Wolters, Groningen, 1935. TP + 1 leaf = Rector's Dedication + half-title + [i] = Inhalt + 1-115, Octavo. First Edition (KJ-DP, #218). These five lectures by Jaspers present solid and enduring ideas, and a new philosophical structure… Read more about this item

Berlin: E. Laubsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1929. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. KAUTSKY, Luise. Rosa Luxemburg. Ein Gedenkbuch (Rosa Luxemburg. A Memorial Book). E. Laubsche, Berlin, 1929. Half-title + Frontis + TP + 1 leaf = Inhalt + 1 leaf = poem + 9 - [86] + [87] = sketch + [88] = advertisements, Small octavo. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1886. First English Edition. Wraps. Very good. First English Language Edition of ? TCHERNYCHEWSKY (Chernyshevsky), Nikolai. Whats To Be Done? A Romance. Benj. R. Tucker, trans. Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1886. Frontispiece with tissue guard + TP + [3] - 4 = translators preface + [5] - 329 + 3 leaves = ads. Octavo. First English… Read more about this item

St. Petersburg, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. The most influential Russian novel ever written--First Book Edition in Russia CHERNYSHEVSKY [TCHERNICHEFSKY]. Chto Delat? [What is to be Done?], St. Petersburg, 1905. 1 leaf + TP + [3] - 456 + 1 leaf. Octavo. FIRST BOOK EDITION The first book edition in Russia of the most influential… Read more about this item

Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1887. First Edition. contemporary boards. Very good. Master Morality and Slave Morality Compared NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral (On the Genealogy of Morals). C. G. Naumann, Leipzig, 1887. TP + [III]- XIV + half title + [1]-182 + [183] = Inhalt + [184] = Printer’s information, Octavo. First Edition. Schaberg 53. … Read more about this item

Kopenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1849. Second Edition. original blue card boards. Very good. Second edition Kierkegaard's Famous Either-Or in original publisher's boards KIERKEGAARD, Soren. Enten-Eller. Et Livs-Fragment. udgivet af Victor Eremita (Either-Or, A Fragment of Life), C.A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1849. TP + [iii]-XIV = Forord + [XVI] = Indhold + half-title + [3]-320 + TP + 1 leaf… Read more about this item

Paris: Temps Modernes, 1946. first appearance. Wraps. Very good. An Existential Morality DE BEAUVOIR, Simone [et al], "Pour une Morale de L’Ambiguite" (The Ethics of Ambiguity) in Le Temps Modernes, Paris, November & December 1946; January - February 1947. 4 vols Octavo. First Appearance in 4 volumes of Le Temps Modernes. In this classic introduction… Read more about this item

Paris: Les editions Nagel, 1946. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. SARTRE, Jean Paul. Existentialisme est un Humanisme, (Existentialism is a Humanism). Les editions Nagel, Paris, 1946 - Half-title + TP + Dedication page + [9]-141 + 1 leaf, small Octavo. First Edition. Following Being and Nothingness (1943) and long with the later Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960),… Read more about this item

Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Kant’s masterpiece of Moral Philosophy, a work arguably as important as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics KANT, Immanuel, Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals) First Printing. 1 blank leaf + TP + [i] - [xiv] = vorrede + [1] -… Read more about this item

n/a: n/a, [1790]. First Edition. Cardboard covers. Very good. Early Manuscript Defense of the Critique of Pure Reason Original, one-of-a-kind handwritten manuscript defense of Kant’s Epistemology. 196-page manuscript in clear German cursive with some deletions and corrections, ink on clean paper. (1790?), Quarto. An extensive presentation and defense of Kant's theory of knowledge, probably written as… Read more about this item

Kjobenhavn, 1842. First Edition. good+. Goldschmidt, M. A. (Meir Aron), Corsaren [The Corsair] Kjobenhavn, 1842. An nearly complete set from 1842. Includes issues 62, 64, 66, 69, 71 - 72, 74 - 76, 78, 81 - 82, 84 - 97, 99 - 108, 110 - 111. This satirical weekly typically was issued with 8 pages with numbered columns (2-per page).… Read more about this item

Kjobenhavn, 1844. First Edition. good+. Goldschmidt, M. A. (Meir Aron), Corsaren [The Corsair] Kjobenhavn, 1844. An nearly complete set from 1844. Includes issues 174 - 180; 182 - 184; 186 - 189; 193; 195 - 207; 209; 211 - 215; 215b + Tillade; 217; 219 - 223. Includes censored issue “no. 176” but with bottom corner… Read more about this item