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	TRAKL, Georg. Gedichte. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1913. Octavo, 65pp. First edition of Trakl's first book, the only one published during his tragically brief lifetime. The author's own copy, in which he has revised the poem, "Traum des Boesen," including the rewritting of a full stanza. With Trakl's woodcut bookplate. Laid in is an evocative three-page letter written on behalf of the poet in June 1913 from Erhard Buschbecks to Franz Zeiss, to whom Trakl would give the present offering, requesting that he assist in finding the poet lodging in Vienna. An early Expressionist whose haunting, disjointed and altogether dispassionatre verse is among the most singular in our century, Trakl, by necessity, has been more admired than emulated. His is a labor of profound patience, a patience that awaits the voice of things themselves. "The poems have a magnificent silence in them, the silence of things that could speak but choose not to." Rilke said of Trakl, "His poetry is to me an object of sublime existence...It occurs to me that his whole work has a parrallel in the aspiration of a Li Po: in both, falling is the pretext for the most continuous ascension. In the history of the poem, Trakl's books are important contributions to the liberation of the poetic image. They seem to me to have mapped out new dimensions of the spirit, and to have disproved that prejudice which judges all poetry in terms of feeling and content only, as if in the direction of lament there were only lament -- but here too there is world again." Wittgenstein, who secretly subsidized the poet, said of his work, "It has the sound of poetry." The present volume is an early publication in the renowned series of Expressionist literature, Der juengste Tag. There are three known presentation copies of this title (there are only eleven presentation copies of anything by Trakl, most of which are offprints of poems published in Ficker's Der Brenner) but none can claim the distinction of the present copy, which is registered in the Historical-Critical Edition of Trakl's Works (volume 2, p. 73). An excellent copy of the rare bound issue of a title ususally found in the issue in printed wrappers. Show details...	75,000.00
	NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen II: Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie fur das Leben. (Unconventional Observations II: The Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life.) E.W. Fritzsche : Leipzig , 1874. Octavo, 111pp. First edition of Nietzsche's second Unconventiaonal Observation, an attack on the then-current faith in historical research. In contrast to the German fashion of the time, Nietzsche argued that historical knowledge is valuable only when it has a positive effect on our sense of life, contending that history can play only three positive roles which he termed, "monumental," "antiquarian," and "critical." This copy inscribed by the author on the front wrapper, " Herr Rathsherrn Prof. Dr. Vischer in treuer Gesinnung und mit der Bitte Wohlwollen Nachsicht ueberreicht vom Verf." It was William Vischer Bilfinger, Ordinarius for Classical Philology and President of the Educational Imstitute at the University of Basel who took the remarkable step of appointing the 24 year old Nietzsche, sans doctorate, to the University's chair of philology -- a move all but unheard-of at the time. The outgoing chair, Adolf Kiessling, had written for information on Nietzsche to his old Professor, Albrecht Ritschl, after reading one of his contributions to the Rheinisches Museum. Ritschl responded that he had never known a young man "who became so mature so early . . . If God grants him long life, I prophesy that he will one day stand in the front rank of German philology." Kiessling passed on Ritschl's recommendation to Vischer. On hearing of his appointment at the University, located only fifty miles from the Wagner residence, the young Nietzsche apparently spent the afternoon singing melodies from Tannhauser in his joy. A near fine copy, promptly inscribed by Nietzsche (as Vischer died only four months after its publication) bound in modern green cloth with minor rubbing to head and foot of spine with publisher's green printed paper wrappers bound in. Show details...	85,000.00
	RICHTER, Gerhard. Charcoal Drawing of a Reclining Nude / Originale Kohlezeichnung. ca. 1960. 24" x 16" charcoal drawing by the young artist, depicting the most famous stage actress of eastern Germany of her day. The present is one of only two known extant drawings by the master from the period prior to his flight from the east in 1962. Signed and titled by Richter on the verso, the latter writing not quite penetrable. Although Richter himself has always felt insecure about his work as a draughtsman and has been reported as saying as much in the recent monograph devoted to his drawings, his early work in pencil certainly attests to a freshness and genuine approach to his subjects that belies his later scruples. Richter is indeed a problematic critic of his own work in general, and he has engineered its reception in a way that puts even Picasso to shame. One day, it will all have to stand or fall on its own merits -- and we expect the vast majority will stand, as Richter is indeed the pre-eminent visual artist of our time. Show details...	125,000.00
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