It's Thursday night and I'm waiting for an ending-diagonal to finish up, probably next week, in the 1868 SPX area. VIX and volatility ETFs like UVXY are expected to make new lows -- heck, UVXY announced a 4:1 reverse split today.
Let's see if I have anything interesting on the shelves to pass the time. Friedrich Nietzsche is interesting. In fact, he's a heavy favorite around here. Leaving aside the usual books, Modern Library eds and paperbacks, here are the
unusual volumes I have from Nietzsche.
Let's start with
The Will to Power, tr. Ludovici, T. N. Foulis, London, 1910, 2 vols:
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| The Will to Power, 1910 ed. |
Ain't she a beauty? This is #1470 in a series of 1500. When I first found this set many years ago at the Bookman's Alley shop in Evanston, IL, the pages had not been cut properly, so I painstakingly separated them with a razor blade. Then I read it all.
They are from the Oscar Levy complete works of Nietzsche, but printed in London, and not by Macmillan.
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| The Will to Power |
Here is a Macmillan edition of
The Future of Our Educational Institutions, tr. Kennedy, Macmillan, New York, 1911, from the Oscar Levy works:
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| The Future of Our Educational Institutions, 1911 ed. |
I can't remember where I found this one,
The Dawn of Day, tr. Volz, Macmillan, New York, 1903. She's such a beautiful volume.
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| The Dawn of Day, 1903 ed. |
This book had been part of a collection at
Ft. Sheridan Library, but it has minimal markings, primarily this plate on the inside cover.
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| The Dawn of Day, 1903 ed. |
Finally, here is a hardcover 1st ed of Walter Kaufmann's modern translations of
The Portable Nietzsche for the Viking Portable Library, New York, 1954.
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| The Portable Nietzsche, 1954 ed. |
Good luck over the long weekend; let's see if we can get a proper reversal next week as the ending-diagonal finishes up.
