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ADORNO, Theodor W. Kierkegaard. Konstruktion des Ästhetischen. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1933. Large octavo, 165pp. First edition of Adorno's first book, his Habilitationsschrift. Adorno is among the greatest philosophers of the Twentieth Century, and one of its most extraodinary writers. We have heard his immortal Minima Moralia (1951) described by one deeply sensitive reader as "the most beautiful book ever written," a sentiment endorsed by not a few others. A very good copy in publisher's printed wrappers with minor wear and tear. Inscribed by Adorno on the title page, 1933, "Herrn Juszher(?) Als Zeichen treuer Verbundenheit. T. W-A. Januar 1933."
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ADORNO, Theodor W. Kierkegaard. Konstruktion des Asthetischen. Tuebingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1933. Octavo, 165pp. Spine mildly faded and with one crease, thus better than very good in blue cloth-covered boards, with the publisher's publicity band. Scarce. The first book by one of the century's most complex and influential thinkers, his qualifying paper (submitted to Paul Tillich) and the first of many critical encounters with the idealism he found in the existentialist thought that had hoped to dispel it.
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ADORNO, Theodor Wiesengrund. Kierkegaard. Konstruktion des Ästhetischen. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1933. 8°. 165 Seiten. Originales, blaues Leinen. Rücken etwas aufgehellt. Sonst sehr guter Zutsand. Erste Ausgabe der ersten Buch-Veröffentlichung, zugleich die Habilitationsschrift. / Octavo, 165pp. Spine mildly faded, else fine in blue cloth-covered boards. Scarce. The first book by one of the century's most complex and influential thinkers, his qualifying paper (submitted to Paul Tillich) and the first of many critical encounters with the idealism he found in the existentialist thought that had hoped to dispel it.
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ALLENDE, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. New York: Knopf, 1985. Octavo, 368pp. First US edition. Near fine in publisher's cloth in like dust jacket. Author's first book, a a family epic based on the events surrounding the overthrow and slaying of her uncle, Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens, the novel integrates realist and magical realist elements, paying tribute in particular to García Márquez. Signed by Ms. Allende on title page
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ALLENDE, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Octavo. 368pp. First British edition of this enchanted family saga, spanning four generations. Very good, in a fine illustrated jacket; the pages, alas, already beginning to yellow. Dated and inscribed by Allende on the year of publication, "For Jim & Thelma Silverman, with the compliments of Isabel Allende 1985," and a small drawing of a flower.
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ALLENDE, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Octavo. 368pp. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition of this enchanted family saga, spanning four generations. Fine in printed wrappers with publisher's compliments card laid in.
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ARAGON, Louis. Feu de joie. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1920. Octavo, unpaged. With a cubist frontispiece by Picasso. Of 1070 copies printed, one of 50 copies reserved for the press numbered OOOO. Text a shade darkened. Very good + in grey printed wrappers.
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850.00 |
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ARGUEDAS, Jose Maria. Agua. Lima: 1935. Octavo, 110pp. First edition of the first book by the first great Peruvian novelist, author of Los rios profundos, one of the great novels of modern Latin American literature. A collection of stories (including some of considerable autobiographical interest), exhibiting the hallmarks of Arguedas’s mature style and concerns. A fine, mostly unopened copy in publisher’s illustrated self-wrappers. Inscribed by Arguedas in January of the year of publication to American journalist and radical, Lincoln Steffens, "Al compańero Lincoln Stephens (sic) con un efusivo saludo, José Maria Arguedas de la A.E.A.R. del Peru, Lima enero 1936." Steffens was one of the central literary figures speaking in behalf of the American poor and against the manifold corruption that insured their oppression. At time when it had become most unpopular, he spoke in support of the Mexican and Russian revolutions and in favor of dynamic social change in general. A superb association copy of a very rare book.
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AUSTER, Paul. Unearth. Weston, Connecticut: Living Hand, 1974. Octavo, unpaged. First edition of this sequence of lyrics, Auster's first proper book. Though now well known as a novelist, Auster began his career as a poet; and he was a very good poet indeed. Very slight sunning to spine; else fine in printed wrappers. This copy signed by Auster.
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BALÁZS, Béla. Der sichtbare Mensch oder die Kultur des Films. Vienna & Leipzig: Deutsch-Österreichischer Verlag, 1924. 167 Seiten. Octavo, 167pp. First of three noteworthy books on film by this Hungarian-born, German-speaking pioneer of film theory and practice. Balázs (1884-1949), like his friend Lukács emigrated to Austria after the Hungarian revolution was put down and to Russia after the Nazi takeover, and wrote many film scripts, including The Blue Light for Leni Riefenstahl who considered him a mentor, as well as libretti for Bartok. His American reception has been limited to the Theory of Film, overlooking his fiction and film reviews, which are much sought in Europe. The Visible Man, in the words of historian Lee Congdon, made him "famous overnight" and "almost everyone who counted in the world of film read the book." The silent film, with its disruptive devices such as the close-up, pried open the closed world of classical narrative continuity and permitted access to the soul, to true reality. This he saw as the promise of a visual world, only to be disappointed by the restorationist nature of the talkie. A very attractive copy in publisher's blue quarter-cloth with expressionist illustrated paper-covered boards. An excellent association copy, inscribed by Belázs in 1927 to novelist Leonard Frank.
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