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Paris: Union Generale d’Editions 10/18, 1973. First edition. Very Good +. VARIOUS. Nietzsche Aujourd’hui? 1. Intensites; 2. Passion. Union Generale d’Editions 10/18, Paris, 1973. 2 volumes: (1) Half-title + 1 leaf + TP + [7] – 440 + [441] = imprime + [443] + [448] = Advertisements; (2) Half-title + 1 leaf + TP + [7] – 439 + [441] – 443 = Table + [445] = imprime, Octavo. First Edition.A collection of essays on Nietzsche by leading French intellectuals of the 20th century.CONDITION: Some mild edge-wear to wraps, small tear to rear wrap of volume 1. Pages browned as usual. A very good copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: Collection “Tel Quel” Aux Editions de Seuil,, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. DERRIDA, Jacques. La Dissemination. Collection “Tel Quel” Aux Editions de Seuil, Paris, 1972. Half-title + TP + Half-title + 9 – [407] + 4 leafs, Octavo. First Edition. $100 Dissemination includes a collection of essays on Plato, Mallarme, and Sollers. It represents one of Derrida’s most complex analyses of the ‘trace’ as writing while serving as a critique of absolute knowledge in written texts. Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the… Read More

Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1964. First printing. Very Good. DERRIDA, Jacques [and VARIOUS]. Revue de métaphysique et de morale. Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, Octobre – Decembre 1964 (No. 4). 365 – [492], Octavo. First Edition.A collection of philosophical essays by leading French intellectuals of the 20th century. Authors include Jacques Derrida among others.Original wrappers, light spotting, with slight edgewear. Unopened. A very good copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: Librairie Plon, 1888. First French Edition. contemporary boards. Very good +. DOSTOIEVSKY [Dostoevsky], Fedor. Les Pauvres Gens (Poor Folk). Librairie Plon, Paris, 1888. 1 leaf + front wrapper + Half-title + TP + [i] – xi + 1 – 275 + rear wrapper + wrapper spine + 1 leaf. 12mo. First French Edition. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Translator. First edition in French, by Victor Derély (1840–1904), who also translated Crime and Punishment (1884), The Possessed (1886), and The Idiot (1887). The first English translation was not published until 1894. Boutchik 334 (misdating it ‘1883’). CONDITION: Very good or better. Some pencil side-ruling and underlining; uncut in quarter morocco, spine lightly sunned, with the original printed wrappers (darkened) bound in; TEG; inscribed by the translator on the half-title to the journalist and poet, Edmond Lepelletier (1846–1913). PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

[Amsterdam]: [Aart Wolsgrein], 1691. First edition. Very Good +. [DUIJKERIUS, Johannes] Het leven van Philopater, opgewiegt in Voetiaensche talmeryen, en groot gemaeckt in de verborgentheden der Coccejanen. Een waere historie. [Bound with:] Vervolg van 't leven van Philopater. Geredded uit de verborgentheeden der Coccejanen, en geworden een waaragtig wysgeer. Een waare historie. Tot Groeningen, voor Siewert van der Brug, in de Waerheyd [Aart Wolsgrein, Amsterdam] 1691 & 1697. 1 leaf + TP + [i] – [xiv] = voorreden + 1 – 221 + 1 leaf + TP + 3 – 12 = voorreden + 1 – 292. 12mo. First Editions.First (only) edition of the two famous Spinozistic Philopater-novels. The first volume describes the fight of the protagonist Philopater (very much similar to the author) against the orthodox Calvinism of Voetius and Coccejus, with some references to Spinoza and his followers. Since both the orthodox and the more liberal party in the Dutch Republic were attacked it did not… Read More