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New York: The American Spectator Publishing Company, 1933. Newspaper, 8.75 x 11.25 inches. Folded newsprint with expected toning and brittle folds, but largely free of material chips and tears. Each issue includes the original wrap-around band. Near-fine.. An excellent collection of the first seven issues of The American Spectator founded by George Jean Nathan, Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Boyd, Theodore Dreiser, and James Branch in 1932 to publish original literary and opinion pieces from distinguished American and European writers. Not to be confused with the conservative magazine of the same name, The American Spectator set out to advance original fiction, opinion, and literary criticism by inviting each contributor to direct and self-edit their own articles, and it further set itself apart by refusing to sell advertising space in its pages. The first issue sold for fifty cents (which was then a rather high price for newsprint) and sold out, prompting an additional print-run of twenty thousand copies,… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1970. First edition. Octavo. Original black cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor toning and scuffing to dust jacket, else fine. Bookplate of Japanese-American theologian and Christian environmentalist, Jitsuo Morikawa, is pasted to front free endpaper. Fine in near-fine dust jacket.. First edition of Richard John Neuhaus's (1936-2009) first book, co-authored with Austrian-born sociologist and theologian Peter L. Berger (1929-2017). Neuhaus was among the most influential American Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century who, alongside H. Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and other prominent contemporary theologians, explored the intersection of religion, politics, and policy in America's modern public square. Neuhaus began his career as a minister in the Lutheran Church after completing his divinity training at Concordia Seminary in 1960. From 1961 to 1978 Neuhaus served as pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, overseeing… Read More

London: Henry & Co, 1896. First edition, first issue. Octavo. Original first issue blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine and eight pages of advertisements. Light toning to spine, extremities slightly rubbed; prior owner blindstamp, ink signature, and bookplate of John Farquhar McLay, bookplate of H.G. Plimmer to front pastedown. A rare and excellent example of this true first English issue of Nietzsche's masterwork.. Scarce true first English edition, first issue of Friedrich Nietzsche's (1844-1900) masterwork Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (translated by Alexander Tille), published by Henry & Co. in 1896. Originally published in German in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Nietzsche's towering work was born out of profound philosophical insights that Nietzsche experienced while walking extensively throughout the Swiss Alps in the early 1880s. What followed was a concentrated burst of creative activity that produced a truly revolutionary work of philosophical literature. It… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First US edition. Octavo. Publisher's original navy cloth, blind-stamped and gilt. Minor scuffing and spotting to boards; some bubbling to rear board cloth; faint toning to leaves, else near-fine.. Rare and uncommonly bright first U.S. edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's (1844-1900) classic polemical work The Dawn of Day (also translated as Daybreak), first published in the US by The Macmillan Company in 1903 (translation by Johanna Volz), after its initial publication in German in 1881 (Morgenröthe: Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurtheile). In The Dawn of Day Nietzsche presents an early attack on moral systems, commencing a sustained critique that would mature in his later works after he fully developed his concept of the "will to power." The work is also an early example of Nietzsche's skill in the aphoristic style, which would garner worldwide renown in the decades following his death in 1900. Drawing upon the ascendant materialism of his day, Nietzsche… Read More