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Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer, 1938. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good. MANN, Thomas, Schopenhauer, Bermann-Fischer, Stockholm, 1938. 1 leaf + half-title + TP + 7 - 83 + 1 leaf. 8vo. First Edition. Thomas Mann's famous essay on Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer's popularity in the 19th century was steadily declining into the 20th c. Mann aimed to bring back to the fore some of the great lessons of Schopenhauer's pessimism. CONDITION: Very good in stiff wraps. Some edgewear and a former owner's name to top of front wrap. Some fading to interior end pages where wraps meet endpaper. Clean throughout. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1932. First edition. Very Good/none. Marcuse, Herbert. Hegels Ontologie und die Grundlegung einer Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit (Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity). Klostermann, Frankfurt, 1932. 367 (1) Original Printed Wrappers. FIRST EDITION Marcuse’s radical “Heideggerian” reading of Hegel in which he seeks to establish the meaning of ‘historicity’. This book furthered the phenomenological Marxism of the late 19th and early 20th century, a view inhereited by Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, among others.CONDITION: Very good or better in the original printed wrappers. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Very good or better in the original printed wrappers. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Boston: Luce and Company, 1908. First printing. Near Fine. Mencken, Henry L., The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Luce and Company, Boston, 1908. Frontispiece with tissue guard + TP + vii – xiii + half-title + 3 – 325, Octavo. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING.Mencken’s classic biography of the oft-misunderstood (especially in the early 20th century) philosopher. CONDITION: Very Good to near fine condition. Corners lightly bumped, NOT affecting any pages. Gilt bright. Former owner's name (Chauncey Hackett) in pencil along with a line of text: “Except for the picture of N. + a few facts this book is worthless because the author is an ass-“. Perhaps this editorial is why the book is largely unopened! First binding state with "The Philosophy of Nietzsche" on the spine. Original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Mencken's third book, not issued with a dust wrapper until the Fifth Edition. Adler 5. Schrader A3.1a. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. La Structure du Comportement (The Structure of Behavior); Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1942. Half-title + TP + [v]-viii = Introduction + [1]-314 + [315] = Printing information, Octavo. First Edition. First edition of Merleau-Ponty s first book with the verso of the title page noting: Dépot Légal / 1re édition .. .. .. 30 novembre 1942 Merleau-Ponty s first book which served as the underlying basis for his doctorate. Heavily influenced by Hegel, The Structure of Behavior rejects the popular objectivism, most evident in psychological behaviorism of the time. However, Merleau-Ponty similarly rejects the popular neo-Kantian intellectualism that would have embraced a subjectivism as the context for objectivity. Here Merleau-Ponty asserts that mind and body are not two separate substances idea and matter but rather, asserts the inseparability of the two as essential for any… Read More

London, 1942. First printing. Wraps. Very Good +. [Miller, Henry, etc.] Cyril Connolly, ed. Horizon A Review of Literature and Art, Vol VI, no. 35. London, November 1942. [293 – 294] = ads + [295] = contents + [296] - 365. Small octavo. First edition in wrappers. Early issue of Horizon, with articles, essays, poetry, etc. Includes “Good News! God is Love!” by Henry Miller.CONDITION: Very good+ in original wraps, sunning to spine with soiling to wrappers and edge wear.  CONDITION: Very good+ in original wraps, sunning to spine with soiling to wrappers and edge wear. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST