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Paris, Stock, 2004; in-8, 227 pp., br.
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5 book(s) with the same title
Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l'École du libertinage. Publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit original, avec des annotations scientifiques par le Dr. Eugène Dühren [i.e. Iwan Bloch]. [i.e. Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome].
Grand in-8° (267 x 177 mm), demi-veau rouge de l'époque, dos à 5 nerfs plats, pièce de titre de veau, (8), 543, (1) p., texte encadré d'un filet vert bronze orné d'un motif rocaille en écoinçon, exemplaire non rogné. Paris, Club des bibliophiles [i.e. Berlin, Max Harrwitz], 1904.
Edition originale publiée en 1904 à Berlin par Max Harrwitz. Un des 160 exemplaires imprimés sur vergé à la forme (justifié n°97) sur un tirage total de 200 exemplaires.La traduction et les notes sont loeuvre du docteur Iwan Bloch (1872-1922), biographe de Sade, dissimulé sous le pseudonyme dEugène Dühren. Médecin, sexologue et psychiatre allemand, Bloch avait acquis le célèbre manuscrit rédigé par Sade en 1785 à la Bastille. Cet extraordinaire manuscrit, composé de 33 feuillets collés bout à bout pour former un rouleau de 12,10 mètres de long sur 11,3 cm de large, écrit au recto et au verso, est aujourd'hui conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). "S'il y a un enfer dans les bibliothèques, c'est pour un tel livre. On peut admettre que, dans aucune littérature d'aucun temps, il n'y a eu un ouvrage aussi scandaleux, que nul autre n'a blessé aussi profondément les sentiments et les pensées des hommes" (Maurice Blanchot).(Dutel, 131. 'Eros invaincu', n° 47. Pia, 'Livres de l'Enfer', 1998, col. 187-189).Quelques minimes épidermures au dos.Très bon exemplaire, très frais, non rogné, témoins conservés.
Phone number : 33 01 47 07 40 60
Lettres à Benjamin Constant. Publiées pour la première fois en original par Madame la Baronne de Nolde, avec une introduction et des notes par Paul L. Léon. Avant-propos de Gustave Rudler.
Petit in-8 carré, broché, couverture rempliée, 165 p., fac-similé hors texte, exemplaire non coupé. Paris, Kra, 1928.
Première édition sur les manuscrits inédits, tirée à 600 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin (n° 253).Très bon exemplaire, très frais, non coupé, tel que paru.
Phone number : 33 01 47 07 40 60
Carnet de Mazarin, publié d'après l'original, avec des éclaircissements, notes et fac-similé, par Victor Luzarche.
In-12, broché, couverture imprimée, (4), 134 p., fac-similé hors texte. Tours, Librairie L. Péricat, 1893.
Edition tirée à 90 exemplaires sur vergé de Hollande. Titre noir et rouge.Dos déchiré. Quelques petites rousseurs éparses.Exemplaire non rogné.
Phone number : 33 01 47 07 40 60
Original Man : The Tautz Compendium of Less Ordinary Gentlemen
, Die Gestalten Verlag 2014, 2014 Hardcover, 240 pages, English, 265 x 220 mm, in fine condition, . ISBN 9783899555523.
Celebrating style, individuality, and joie de vivre, this book showcases 80 original men who will inspire readers to lead a less ordinary life. Original Man is a compendium of the stories of extraordinary men. From household names including Andy Warhol, Freddie Mercury, and Yves Saint-Laurent to lesser-known personalities, the 80 men presented here are incredibly diverse, yet all share entirely original lives. Featuring famous hell-raisers such as Iggy Pop, indomitable explorers including Ernest Shackleton, visionaries like Federico Fellini, and some less mainstream personalities such as Quentin Crisp or Takeshi Kitano, these biographies are as gripping as any fiction. This book is the brainchild of UK men's fashion maven Patrick Grant. As set about re-awakening the traditional Saile Row tailoring house of E. Tautz after a thirty-year slumber, he wanted to define the kind of man he aspired to clothe. Original Man is the compelling result of his musings--a collection of portraits of men who go beyond a veneer of stylish attire to wring every last drop out of life with their actions, thoughs, or words in a manner scarcely seen nowadays. These are not the biographies of those the world considers to be the best writers, thinkers, or adventurers (though undoubtedly some arguably are). Rather, this book celebrates those that have lived lives that are genuinely different. Whether in the life of a stylist, a libertine, an artist, or a hero, originality and historical precedence trumps prowess; the manner of their endeavors is what counts, not the end result. Reflecting Grant's personal background and experiences approximately half of the book's notable men come from the UK, a quarter from the US, and most of the remainder from Western Europe. Explaining his strong British bias, Grant states ''we seem to breed original characters (or celebrate them more vocally) at a rate which belies our relatively small population.'' Because a claim to inclusion requires sustained effort, not just a brief burst of activity, few of the men featured in Original Man are young. Some, such as Malcolm X and Ayrton Senna, died young, but had a lasting impact. The book also contains a few men well known for their hedonistic lifestyles such as Ozzy Osbourne and Oliver Reed, but it does not celebrate those who simply fritter their lives away at play unless it is done with the greatest sense of style. Often their tales are rather sad ones, like that of snooker player Alex Higgins, and are included in the hope that they are as precautionary as they are laudatory. Aware that there do not seem to be many equivalents to these stories today, Grant wishes to share these portraits to inspire readers--men and women alike--to try to live more interesting and original lives themselves.
Frygt og Bæven. Dialektisk Lyrik af Johannes de Silentio. - [A SPLENDID COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING]
Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1843. 8vo. VIII, 135 pp. Completely uncut in the original blue cardboard binding. Spine and front hinge neatly restored, preserving part of the original printed title-label. Brownspotting as usual. Overall a very nice copy indeed. Old owners’ names to inside of front board (N. Pedersen 18/8 1879 and C. Wegener).
A splendid copy of one of Kierkegaard's most splendid and most sought-after works in the original binding, which is extremely rare. The spines of the original Kierkegaard cardboard bindings are always just thin paper directly glued on the block, making them extremely fragile, and the original paper-labels are hardly every preserved. Although Fear and Trembling is evidently printed in the same number of copies as almost all the other works by Kierkegaard (i.e. ca 525), this is one of the most difficult of his works to find in the first edition. Perhaps later research will show whether unsold copies were destroyed, which seems unlikely, however. We know that in July or August 1847, 321 copies of Fear and Trembling had been sold. What we also know is that it is highly sought-after by collectors and much less frequently on the market than most of Kierkegaard’s other works. It is very odd that not a single copy on special paper or in a gift-binding, presentation-copy or anything like that has been located or registered. For this title, a Kierkegaard-collector will have to make do with a “normal” copy. The present copy, in the original binding, and completely uncut, is the best copy we have come across over the last many decades. FEAR AND TREMBLING is one of Kierkegaard’s most important works. And it is also one of his most difficult. It deals – in forceful brevity – with the relationship between reason and faith and provides us with Kierkegaard’s most thorough exposition of the religious stage, which he considered the most meaningful form of existence. Setting the scene in his Preface with the punchy opening lines: “Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid.”(Preface, Walter Lowrie’s translation, 1941), Kierkegaard begins the work with a rendering of the biblical tale of Abraham and Isak from the Old Testament, using it to illustrate how religious reasons can triumph over ethical. It is here that Kierkegaard introduces the “tragic hero” and contrasts it to the “Knight of Faith”, who both ignore their own wishes for a higher good. These two essential figures epitomize the ethical and the religious and pave the way for the understanding of these stages in Kierkegaard’s philosophy. It is arguably also here that the idea of the essential leap of faith is introduced for the first time. The Knight of Faith sacrifices his son at the command of God and thus sets aside an ethical demand in in order to attain a higher goal that exists beyond the ethical. This teleological suspension of the ethical requires a leap of faith that is only possible through faith in virtue of the absurd. In many ways, Fear and Trembling is the most forceful of Kierkegaard’s works, as is also indicated by the title. Kierkegaard himself also considered it one of his most significant productions and wrote in his posthumously published Notebooks: “Oh, once I am dead, Fear and Trembling alone will be enough for an imperishable name as an author. Then it will be read, translated into foreign languages as well. The reader will almost shrink from the frightful pathos in the book.” (NB 12:147, 1849). This splendidly dense work which so magnificently weaves together existential concerns with biblical interpretation is responsible for the introduction of many of the concepts that are most fundamental to Kierkegaard’s philosophy and is essential to the understanding of his thought. Not a single presentation-copy of the work is known to exist and none has ever been registered nor identified. We know from the auction catalogue that Kierkegaard had two copies in his collection, one in “dainty binding”, but neither copy has been located. Himmelstrup 48 The present copy is no. 18 in Girsel's ""Kierkegaard"" (The Catalogue) which can be found here.
