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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

London: Printed, and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1698. First edition. Folio (310 x 200 mm). Modern brown quarter calf, red morocco spine label and raised bands, with marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Comes in a blue, flat-back cloth box. Ownership signature of "Adam Brown, 1797," and shelf mark to title page, several annotations and ink marks to contents, including sig. 302 verso. Contents occasionally spotted with small nick to top edge of S4 and short closed tear to lower edge of 2V2, else a very bright and clean copy housed in a nice custom box.. First edition of this major work of republican theory by English politician and republican theorist Algernon Sidney (1623-1683). Sidney wrote his Discourses Concerning Government between 1681 and 1683, and it originally circulated in manuscript form as a polemical refutation of Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha (1680), which defended the divine right of kings under absolute monarchy. Sidney opposed absolute monarchy as a… Read More

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1960. First edition. Octavo. Orange wrappers. Sunning to spine with scattered rubbing and spotting to text block. Author's name sticker to front cover verso. Very good-plus.. Marion Montgomery's (1925-2011) personal copy of his first book of poetry. Montgomery was an American poet, novelist, educator, and critic and, like his personal friend and literary companion, Flannery' O'Connor, a modern Thomist (or, as he and O'Connor referred to themselves, a "Hillbilly Thomist"). He taught English at the University of Georgia for over thirty years and was a prolific writer, publishing three novels, a volume of short stories, poetry, numerous works of literary criticism, and a number of books applying the Thomistic tradition to modern culture and American literature. Montgomery's magnum opus is often considered to be his trilogy The Prophetic Poet and the Spirit of the Age-more commonly known by their individual titles: Why Flannery O'Connor Stayed Home, Why… Read More