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Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. “The Historical Christ” (PMM 352) RENAN, Ernest, Vie de Jesus, Michel Lévy Frères, Paris, 1863. 1 blank leaf (with tipped-in signed letter from Renan on recto and picture of Jesus on verso) + half-title + TP + 1 leaf = “A L’ame Pure” + [iii] - lix = Introduction + [1] - 459 + [461] - 462 = Table des Matieres + 1 leaf, Octavo, SIGNED First Edition. PMM 352 “Renan’s theory of history was baed on personalities, and in reconstructing it he endeavored always to penetrate and to expound the psychology of the leading characters. Indeed, in 1845 he wrote, but never published, an essay on the psychology of Jesus; and in ‘Life’ he created what remains a figure of his own imagination. It is a pastoral idyll with the central figure a gentle, albeit oracular visionary, his power to work miracles a part of his unique personality—the son of man, but not the Son of a God” (PMM). PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 352 CONDITION: Very… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1886. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. First Crowell Edition of ? TCHERNUISHEVSKY (Chernyshevsky), Nikolai. A Vital Question, or What Is To Be Done? Nathan Haskell Dole and S. S. Skidelsky, trans. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1886. Blank leaf + TP + [iii] - ix = preface + [1] - 462 + blank leaf. Octavo. First US Crowell Edition. An alternate translation of ? (A Vital Question, or What Is To Be Done?) was published the same year as the Tucker edition. Priority seems to be with the Tucker, since it appeared in serialized form from 1884 - 1886. “The other American translation… was published by Nathan Haskell Dole and S.S. Skidelsky.” Unlike Tucker, Dole and Skidelsky were fluent in Russian. Therefore, this translation was made directly from the Russian, rather than from the French, so it remains truer to the original. While some of Vera and Lopukhov’s marriage life was omitted in this version (because it might have been too… Read More