53 “One Of The Fundamental Texts Of 20th-Century Philosophy” 76WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus. London, 1922. Octavo, original olive green cloth. $13,000 First edition in English of the only major philosophical text published in Wittgenstein’s lifetime, immediately recognized as “a major contribution to philosophy,” with parallel German-English text and an introduction by Bertrand Russell. Wittgenstein served in the Austrian army during WWI, was captured on the Italian front in 1918 and wrote this, the only major philosophical work published in his lifetime, while in a POW camp near Monte Cassino. First printed in the German periodical Annalen der Naturphilosophie (1921; Vol. 14:3-4), the Tractatus “was recognized as a major contribution to philosophy on its appearance in 1922… with an English translation and an expository introduction by Bertrand Russell” (Garland, 995). Tractatus remains “one of the fundamental texts of 20thcentury philosophy” (Michael Frayn). Without the virtually unobtainable dust jacket. Scattered minor foxing; light toning and wear to spine and extremities, front joint cloth partially split but holding strong. An extremely good copy. “The Prophet Of Existentialism” 77KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Enten-Eller. Et LivsFragment. Copenhagen, 1843. Two volumes. Octavo, contemporary violet ribbon-embossed cloth. $9500 First edition of Kierkegaard’s first significant work, one of only 525 copies printed. Kierkegaard’s earliest major work, Enten-Eller (Either/Or) contrasts two ways of life: the aesthetic and the ethical. The book comprises “a curious bundle of papers, essays, semi-dialogues and notes, seemingly ill-assorted, but in fact dialectically arranged… [giving] Kierkegaard the opportunity of letting different sides of his mind converse as individuals with each other, in a semi-Socratic fashion… Choice… was at the root of Kierkegaard’s theory. There can be no system of existence, only a system of ideas. From this he develops his thesis of ‘Existence’ (since taken up by the modern Existentialists)… he is now generally considered to be, however eccentric, one of the most important Christian philosophers” (PMM 314). Contents with occasional light foxing, small area of offsetting from inked author name; spines evenly toned to brown, boards with spots of toning, cloth slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. A very good copy.
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