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Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Heavy rubbing with scattered areas of fading to boards. Knocks with 12mm creases to top corners of boards. Split to gutter at front hinge. Pencil marginalia and underlining. Marginalia is mainly confined to the Introduction and the Preface. Bookseller's ticket on verso of half title leaf, Blackwell's, Oxford, England. ; First edition in English. xv, [1], 268, [3 (advertisements)], [1 (blank)] pages + extra tipped in title leaf. The integral title leaf has the imprint The Good European Society / T. N. Foulis / The Darien Press / 1907. The extra title leaf, tipped in at the inner margin, has the imprint T. N. Foulis / Edinburgh: and London / 1907. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. Text in English. Translated from the German by Helen Zimmern. With a 7 page "Introduction to the Translation" by George Common. Philosophy. Contents: Introduction to the Translation; Preface; Prejudices of Philosophers; The Free Spirit; The Religious Mood; Apothegms and Interludes; The Natural History of Morals; We Scholars; Our Virtues; Peoples and Countries; What Is Noble?; Epode: From Lofty Mountains. [Reference: Hollingdale, "Routledge Author Guides: Nietzsche" (1973) p. 217 - "All of Nietzsche's books have been translated in English [. . .] The extremes are perhaps Thomas Common's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra,' which is not to be recommended and is, indeed, all but unreadable, and Helen Zimmern's 'Beyond Good and Evil,' which frequently cannot be improved on, although even here there are unaccountable errors and lapses into incomprehensibility."]
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British edition. [ii], xv, [1], 268, [3, ads] pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with lightly rubbed cloth, bumped corners, and minor soiling. Rear board mottled at bottom right corner. Offsetting on front and rear endpapers, contents have minor toning, mustiness. Ads uncut.The famous German philosopher leaves traditional morality behind in this follow-up to Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.