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Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel, 1847. First Edition. Original boards. Very good. Kierkegaard’s Major Treatment of Christian Ethics “No Love Without Works” Kierkegaard, Soren, Kjerlighedens Gjerninger (Works of Love), C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1847. 1 blank sheet + TP + [1] = Indhold + [3] = Forord + [5]-224 + TP + [5] = Indhold + [3] = Forord + [7]-203, small Octavo. First Editions of both parts bound in one volume (Himmelstrup 105). "Kierkegaard's major treatment of Christian ethics and one of his most potent criticisms of established Christianity... Kierkegaard here takes issue with the degeneration of Protestant ethics into bourgeois complacency... In short, there is no love without works." (Wronoski, p. 21) CONDITION: Very good in original publishers blue cardboard covers with paper label on the spine. Label with some loss. Boards reattached with archival tape. Lightly foxed throughout. Photos available upon request

New York: The New Review, 1966. First Edition. wraps. Near fine. SHALAMOV, Varlam Tikhonovich, [Kolyma Tales/Stories], in 27 issues of / The New Review (1966 - 76), New York, 1966 - 1976. 27 volumes octavo. FIRST APPEARANCES. First appearance of many “tales” or “stories” that formed part of the Kolyma Tales of the 1978 complete book. “The artistic manner of the stories is similar to that of Chekhov: a brief plot devoted to one incident, an objective, dispassionate narration intended to provide a contrast to the horror of the moment, and a very abrupt ending, often intended to be subtly ironic” (Handbook of Russian Literature, p 401). The 27 issues and contents date from 1966 through 1976 and contain the following: : . – . – . – / . . // 1966. No 85. pp. 5-34. Maxim. - Kant. - Package. - Dry rations : . – . – // 1967. No 86. pp. 5-20.… Read More

Frankfurt & Main: Leidinger, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. “The Gospel of Materialism” (PMM 338) BUCHNER, Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig, Kraft und Stoff (Force and Matter), Leidinger, Frankfurt & Main, 1855. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 leaf = epigraphs + 1 leaf = Inhalt on recto with Berichtigung on verso + [vii] - xvi = Vorwort + 1 - 269 + 1 leaf = advertisements + 1 blank leaf, Small Octavo, First Edition. PMM 338 “Berkeley denied the existence of matter. Buchner declared that nothing else existed…. all the phenomena of the functioning of the human body were explicable on purely materialistic lines and it was only a question of time before this fact would be experimentally demonstrable. Buchner was not only one of the earliest, he was also the most uncompromising representative of this school. The thesis pursued in his Force and Matter is that thought is as much an emanation of the brain as bile is an emanation of the liver. The mind and the spirit are products of an animal organism… Read More