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Lot 87
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1896
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1896
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich (1844-1900). Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None. Translated by Alexander Tille. New York: Macmillan, 1896.
Rare, first edition in English, American issue. This translation was published simultaneously in London and New York as volume 8 of the projected authorized edition of Nietzsche's complete works. However, the translator returned from Britain to Germany shortly after this publication (facing anti-German anger during the Boer War) and died there in 1912. Alexander Tille was the first translator of any work by Nietzsche into English and his impact on the English-speaking world's interpretation of Nietzsche was felt for decades. In the foreword to this work, he suggests a purely social-Darwinist reading of Nietzsche, one that influenced writers from W.B. Yeats to Jack London.
Octavo. Half-title. Original green publisher's cloth (joints and spine ends rubbed, scratch to front cover, adhesion to front free endpaper); custom box.
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1896
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich (1844-1900). Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None. Translated by Alexander Tille. New York: Macmillan, 1896.
Rare, first edition in English, American issue. This translation was published simultaneously in London and New York as volume 8 of the projected authorized edition of Nietzsche's complete works. However, the translator returned from Britain to Germany shortly after this publication (facing anti-German anger during the Boer War) and died there in 1912. Alexander Tille was the first translator of any work by Nietzsche into English and his impact on the English-speaking world's interpretation of Nietzsche was felt for decades. In the foreword to this work, he suggests a purely social-Darwinist reading of Nietzsche, one that influenced writers from W.B. Yeats to Jack London.
Octavo. Half-title. Original green publisher's cloth (joints and spine ends rubbed, scratch to front cover, adhesion to front free endpaper); custom box.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1896
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich (1844-1900). Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None. Translated by Alexander Tille. New York: Macmillan, 1896.
Rare, first edition in English, American issue. This translation was published simultaneously in London and New York as volume 8 of the projected authorized edition of Nietzsche's complete works. However, the translator returned from Britain to Germany shortly after this publication (facing anti-German anger during the Boer War) and died there in 1912. Alexander Tille was the first translator of any work by Nietzsche into English and his impact on the English-speaking world's interpretation of Nietzsche was felt for decades. In the foreword to this work, he suggests a purely social-Darwinist reading of Nietzsche, one that influenced writers from W.B. Yeats to Jack London.
Octavo. Half-title. Original green publisher's cloth (joints and spine ends rubbed, scratch to front cover, adhesion to front free endpaper); custom box.
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1896
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich (1844-1900). Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None. Translated by Alexander Tille. New York: Macmillan, 1896.
Rare, first edition in English, American issue. This translation was published simultaneously in London and New York as volume 8 of the projected authorized edition of Nietzsche's complete works. However, the translator returned from Britain to Germany shortly after this publication (facing anti-German anger during the Boer War) and died there in 1912. Alexander Tille was the first translator of any work by Nietzsche into English and his impact on the English-speaking world's interpretation of Nietzsche was felt for decades. In the foreword to this work, he suggests a purely social-Darwinist reading of Nietzsche, one that influenced writers from W.B. Yeats to Jack London.
Octavo. Half-title. Original green publisher's cloth (joints and spine ends rubbed, scratch to front cover, adhesion to front free endpaper); custom box.