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Kjøbenhavn: C.A. Reitzel, 1838. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. First Edition of Kierkegaard’s First BookKIERKEGAARD, Soren. Af en endnu Levendes Papirer (From the Papers of One Still Living), C.A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1838. 1 blank leaf + TP + Half-title ("On Andersen as a Novelist with Constant Reference to his Work: Only a Fiddler") + iii-x = Forord + [1]-79, 12mo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 6).Kierkegaard's first book published "against his will" (as noted on TP)."Kierkegaard's first book, a rather merciless ad hominem attack on the great children's storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's attempt at a serious novel, Kun en Spillemand (Only a Fiddler). The work's importance - an old joke has it that only Kierkegaard and Andersen read the book - lies less in the critique of Andersen's novel than in its presentation, in tentative but recognizable form, of Kierkegaard's theory of the individual, or rather,… Read More

Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch, 1886. first thus. Hardcover. Very good +. NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Also Sprach Zarathustra I - III. E.W. Fritzsch, Leipzig, 1886. 3 parts in one. TP + 1 leaf + 5-114 + 2 leaves + 1-103 + 2 leaves + [1]-119 Octavo. First Edition, Second Issue. Schaberg 45. The first appearance together of the first three parts of Nietzsche's masterpiece – one of the most influential works of German literature. This issue was created by using the left-over printed sheet from the first edition (which had previously been issued separately), canceling the original title-pages and adding a new single-volume title (“teils titelauflage”) to the first part and half-titles to the other two parts. (Part IV was not publicly printed until 1891). Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of Nietzsche's most famous works, and Nietzsche regarded it as among his most significant. Thoroughly studied and re-studied by scholars throughout the 20th century, the character of Zarathustra stands as a figure marking… Read More

St. Petersburg: Sovremennik / Contemporary, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. “The philosophical bible of the radical generation of the 1860s” , H. . (CHERNYSHEVSKY, N.G.). (Antropologicheskiy printsip v filosofii) in No IV, (Sovremennik / Contemporary). St. Petersburg: April & May 1860. Vol I: Front wrapper + [357] - 500 + [259] - 558 + 2 leaves = contents + rear wrapper; Vol II: half-title + TP + [5] - 208 + [1] - 102 + [1] - 56 + 2 leaves = advertisements. 2-volume octavo. First Edition. Chernyshevsky is quite possibly the most important intellectual in Russia in the 19th century, and his popularity is arguably the reason for both Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Early in his academic career, he studied the utopian socialism of both Fourier and Saint-Simon. As he evolved, his vision soon embraced all the thinkers in this catalog. While What Is To Be Done? was his most successful work—the… Read More

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871. First edition. Long, Samuel P.Art: Its Laws, and the Reasons for Them, Collected, Considered, and Arranged for General and Educational Purposes.Lee and Shepard, Boston 1871. 1 leaf + [i] - ii = advertisements + frontis + TP + 1 leaf = dedication + [vii] - xxxii + 1 - 248, 9 plates, four of which are from engravings by Joseph Andrews. 8vo, An important work on aesthetics, with a section on Terms in Architecture and a Catalogue of Works of Art to Which Reference is Made in This Volume. CONDITION: Very good in original green cloth with gilt spine. Spine ends and corners with bumping and small fray at top of spine. Light edge wear. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Autrement qu’etre ou au-dela de L’Essence (Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence); Martinus Nijhoff, La Haye, 1974. Half-title + TP + [v] – viii = table matieres + [ix] – x = Note Preliminaire + 1 leaf + [3]-233, Octavo. First Edition. $250 Otherwise than being or beyond essence is a sequel to Levinas's Totality and Infinity. An immensely challenging and sophisticated work, it is generally considered Levinas's most important contribution to the contemporary debate surrounding the closure of metaphysical discourse, much commented upon by Jacques Derrida. The work contains a fundamentally original theory of the ethical relationship and describes the face-to- face relationship, sensibility, responsibility and speech. The process of the revelation of Being as laid out by modern phenomenological ontology is severely criticized, as the author claims that the ultimate account of these phenomena is not… Read More