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The Birth of Tragedy: Hellenism and Pessimism
by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Hudson, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
This is a scarce, first edition thus copy of "The Birth of Tragedy - or, Hellenism and Pessimism" by Friedrich Nietzsche. 1909 1st UK edition, thus; T.N. Foulis; Edinburgh and London. Limited edition - this copy is No. 55 of 1,500 copies printed. "The First Complete and Authorized English Translation" - translated by Wm. A. Haussmann. Volume Three of "The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche."
Condition:
There are some very light stains on the covers. Cloth tears at the cover corners. There is a split along the entire length of the left edge of the spine where it meets the back cover. Chipping to the top and bottom edges of the spine with pieces missing (see photo). Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. There are numerous pages with pencil markings such as notations in the outer margins, lines of text underlined, vertical lines in the outer margin highlighting lines of text, etc. A rear end paper has page numbers with notes written next to them in pencil. Light tanning to the end papers and pastedowns. Overall the book is in Fair condition.
Synopsis
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. Shaun Whiteside’s translations include Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and Musil’s The Confessions of Young Törless for Penguin Classics.
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Details
- Bookseller
- CraigsClassics
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7894
- Title
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Author
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T.N. Foulis
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- friedrich nietzsche, thus spake zarathustra, beyond good and evil, the gay science, the antichrist, genealogy of morality, birth of tragedy, ecce homo, twilight of idols, human all too human, dawn of day, on truth and lies, thoughts out of season, god is
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Fiction;
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About the Seller
CraigsClassics
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Hudson, New Hampshire
About CraigsClassics
My store offers a curated selection of antiquarian books in a variety of topics with an emphasis on classic literature and children's classics. I take pride in providing great customer service with prompt replies to offers and inquiries, careful packaging and next-day shipping. Based in scenic southern New Hampshire.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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