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Paris: chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1821. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Equality of Opportunity SAINT SIMON, Claude-Henri. Du système industriel. Paris: chez Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1821. Half-title + TP + [i] - xx = Preface + half-title + [3] - 311 + blank leaf. Octavo. First Edition in original wrappers. Saint-Simon's Socialism put forth in Du système industriel (The Industrial System) is the Socialism of equal opportunity rather than of equal wealth; the nation must be industrious, but there will always be classes of the industrious and the idle, for which reason there will always be hierarchies. Saint-Simon had no great faith in political democracy, despite his agitation against social injustice (including towards women); efficient administration of society by the industriels would ensure the governing of things and not people. This was the first collective appearance in book form of a series of pamphlets in the form of letters, published individually in 1821 during the trial of… Read More

Paris: La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1937. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. SARTRE, Jean Paul. “Le Mur” in La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, Juillet 1937 – Front wrapper + 56 pages of advertisements + half-title + title-page + [5] – 184 + 16 pages of advertisements + rear wrapper. Small Octavo. First Appearance. The first appearance of the famous short story, “Le Mur” (“The Wall”), which explores the Sartrean existential human conditions of anguish, abandonment, and despair. Pablo, a political prisoner facing execution, is confronted with the inauthenticity of most human choices as he is confronted by the question of meaning for himself. A classic short story of existentialism, commonly read by most undergraduate students. Story appears on pages 38 - 62. CONDITION: Very good or better in the original paper covers. One leaf (pp 33/34) with some loss at bottom, not affecting the text. Mostly unopened. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

New York: Sheed and Ward, 1967. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SCHILLEBEECKX, Edward, O.P., Revelation and Theology, Volume 1, New York: Sheed and Ward, 1967.266 pages Octavo. First American Edition (based on second edition of 1966). CONDITION: Very good in original blue cloth. Dustjacket clipped. Remnants of bookplate to front pastedown. Pencilled numbers & stamp to verso of TP. Internally clean. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

New York: The New Review, 1966. First Edition. wraps. Near fine. SHALAMOV, Varlam Tikhonovich, [Kolyma Tales/Stories], in 27 issues of / The New Review (1966 - 76), New York, 1966 - 1976. 27 volumes octavo. FIRST APPEARANCES. First appearance of many “tales” or “stories” that formed part of the Kolyma Tales of the 1978 complete book. “The artistic manner of the stories is similar to that of Chekhov: a brief plot devoted to one incident, an objective, dispassionate narration intended to provide a contrast to the horror of the moment, and a very abrupt ending, often intended to be subtly ironic” (Handbook of Russian Literature, p 401). The 27 issues and contents date from 1966 through 1976 and contain the following: : . – . – . – / . . // 1966. No 85. pp. 5-34. Maxim. - Kant. - Package. - Dry rations : . – . – // 1967. No 86. pp. 5-20.… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1883. First Edition. Original cloth. very good+. SIDGWICK, Henry. The Principles of Political Economy. Macmillan and Co., London, 1883. 1 leaf + half-tile + TP + [v] - vi = preface + [vii] - xx = contents + 1 leaf = “corrigenda” + 1 - 591 + 1 leaf. Octavo. First Edition. First edition of SidgwickÂ’s philosophical attempt to merge the neoclassical and classical economic theories of the time. ”Sidgwick's attempt to bring professorial rigour and detachment to bear upon the major questions of policy and legislation. The Principles of Political Economy (1883) was an intellectually conservative work in two ways: first, its analytical or deductive method signalled its adherence to the style of classical political economy, rather than adopting the more historical or more mathematical approaches then in vogue; and second, it included within the scope of the subject not just the 'science' of economic analysis, but also the 'art' of political economy, that is, an examination of… Read More

Rotterdam: Chez Reinier Leers, 1689. First Edition. vellum. Very good. SIMON, Richard. Histoire critique du texte du Nouveau Testament, où l'on établit la vérité des actes sur lesquels la religion chrétienne est fondée. Chez Reinier Leers, Rotterdam, 1689. TP + [1] - [9] = Preface + [10] [14] = Table des Chapitres + 1 - 430 + 1 blank leaf. 4to. First Edition. Richard Simon, "father of modern exegesis," sought to moderate the radical thinking of the Enlightenment. His History of the text of the New Testament brought a critical-historical eye to those long-held, and rarely questioned, religious truths. He defended the faith against those heretical voices of ecclesiastical opposition while trying to carve space for historical critical Biblical exegesis. Simon found himself "embroiled in a grueling two-front war, battling Spinoza, on one side, and the immense corpus of inherited interpretation on the other" (Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment, 450). CONDITION: Very good+ in original vellum.… Read More

New York: The New Review, 1968. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr, “ ” [“The Right Hand”] in / The New Review #93, New York, December 1968. TP + 1 leaf = contents + [5] - 320. Octavo. FIRST EDITION thus in wrappers. According to The Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center, [“The Right Hand”] is Solzhenitsyn’s only work, besides Cancer Ward itself, that is based on his own hospital experiences as a cancer patient, revealing the inhumanity, the institutional objectification, and the indifference often suffered by those no longer useful. It was never published in the Soviet Union. "Pravaia kist" ("The Right Hand") and was written "for the drawer"; that is, without the hope of having them appear in print during the author's lifetime. The story appears on pages 25 - 35 of the December 1968 issue (93) of / The New Review. CONDITION: Very good or better in original publisher’s wrappers.

Moscow: Novyi Mir, 1962. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr, [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich] in Novyi Mir, XXXVIII, No. 11, Moscow, November 1962. TP/Contents + [3] - 288. Octavo. FIRST EDITION. This is the first appearance of SolzhenitsynÂ’s famous tale of Soviet labor camp prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Set in the 1950s, the story of this single day was first published on pages 8 - 74, with a preface by Aleksandr Tvardovsky, in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novyi Mir (New World). One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich engages with questions both theological and philosophical as well as historical and political. It stands as one of the most important literary texts of the 20th century revealing the horrors of the labor camps as well as the resilient and enduring nature of the human spirit. Because of this work Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1970), but he was also exiled from the Soviet Union in… Read More

[Amsterdam]: [Jan Rieuwertsz],, 1677. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/none. First Edition of Spinoza’s Masterwork – Ethica, Ordine Geometrico demonstrataSPINOZA, Baruch. Opera Postuma, Quorum series post Præfationem exhibetur. [Jan Rieuwertsz], [Amsterdam], 1677. TP + 18 leaves = Præfatio + half title + [1]-614 + 16 leaves = Index Rerum + half title + 1-112 + 4 leaves = Indiculus & Errata. First Edition.Published in the year of Spinoza's death, this posthumous collection was edited by his close friend, Jarig Jelles, whose preface, originally written in Dutch, was translated into Latin by L. Meyer. Spinoza had contemplated publishing his Ethica two years earlier but the furor over his supposed atheism forced him to postpone the book’s release. The day before his death, Spinoza arranged for these works to be published by sending them to Jan Rieuwertsz who had previously published his Principia on Descartes and the… Read More

Tubingen: Oslander, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. “Jesus Without the Myths” (PMM 300) STRAUSS, David, Das Leben Jesu (The Life of Jesus), Oslander, Tubingen, 1835/1836. Volume 1: Flyleaf + TP + [iii] - xvi = Vorrede/Inhalt + [1] - [732]; Volume 2: Flyleaf + TP + [iii] - [xii] = Vorrede/Inhalt + [1] - 750 + [751] - [752] = Druckfahler, small Octavo. First Edition. PMM 300 "The publication of 'The Life of Jesus Critically Considered' aroused a storm of controversy; its revolutionary thesis and content were violently attacked, and wrenched out of context... Strauss's principal objective was to explode not only the traditional orthodox view of the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus, but also earlier rationalistic views..." (PMM). Strauss's first and greatest work, a crucial text in the history of biblical studies and of religious scholarship generally. The first consistent, systematic application of the (then quasi-Hegelian) notion of myth to the New Testament and early Christianity,… Read More