Thus Spake Zarathustra 1896 1st edition Friederich Nietzsche spoke first

Description: Thus Spake Zarathustraby Friederich Nietzsche First Edition in English Publisher and Year: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896-Edition: First edition in the English language, first printing. Translated by Alexander Tille. Both the American edition (this copy) and British edition (H. Henry & Co) were published in the same year, with no priority established. Originally published in German [Also Sprach Zarathustra] in four parts from 1883 to 1892. The first editions in English contain the entirety of Nietzsche’s magnum opus in a single volume.-Condition and Description: Publisher’s olive cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, front cover ruled in blind, 7.75" x 5.25", 479 pp (+publisher’s catalog). Covers rubbed and spotted. Tips bumped and exposed. Spine tanned, rubbed, and with loss at the ends (most prominently at the crown). Bookplate on front paste down, with offsetting to the front flyleaf. Front slightly hinge tender, with separation starting, but sound and firmly holding (refer to the final two pictures for closeups). Internally, the binding is sound, but over-opened in several places, with a joint at page 291 just starting, as shown. Free and clear of writing and underlining. The pages are lightly tanned and have occasional imperfections throughout (e.g., unbent corner, age spotting, rubbing to extremities), with representative examples as pictured. A scarce first edition of Nietzsche’s most famous work.-“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra-Inventory ID: 333 – 325 - 770

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