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Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible; Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. First Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Filled with b/w photographs of the contributing authors. This is a compilation of eleven southern authors memories of growing up in the south.…

Magazine. Zustand: As New. First Edition. Magazine, Prozine - 1st. Print - Limited to 5000 copies (VF) This edition of Witzend features "The Adventures of Talon", by Steranko, a "Junkwaffel" tale by Bode, "Wizard King - Chapter 2", by Wood, and more. WOOD, WALLACE : STERANKO, JIM : BODE, VAUGHN (illustrator).…

Third printing (as stated and dated upon rear cover, i.e. page 32; preceded by printings issued on March 15, 1960 and May 1, 1960). 32 pages including covers. Staple-bound paperback booklet: H 22.25cm x L 14.5cm. Two vertical creases to booklet; slight toning and foxing to white paper covers; front past owner's ink signature at top of front cover; rear cover has booklet's price circled in red pencil. Bumping/curling at fore-edge corners; interior pages are otherwise clean. Hate literature - anti-integration diatribe by the managing editor of the Farmville Herald newspaper. Page 2 features a short biography of the author by newspaper publisher J. Barrye Wall with a further endorsement of the Price Edward County's actions in response to the "legal proceedings of the NAACP leading to the Black Monday Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court and the subsequent pressure of the lower federal courts." Primary text all presumably by John C. Steck with Foreword on pages 3-4, essay "The County's Story" on pages 5-17, and essay "The Tortuous Legal Maze" on pages 18-26. Roy R. Pearson contributes essay "Prince Edward School Foundation on pages 27-31. Scarce hate literature example demonstrating the entrenched attitudes opposing school desegregation in the south still years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision. OCLC records copies at eleven member institutions of which ten are in Virginia (the escapee being held by UNC-Chapel Hill).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. A First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed by each contributor on the on the half title page. In addition, several contributors have signed on the first page of their own story. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence including the no. 1: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the publisher's copyright prelims page. (Simultaneously published by St. Martin's Press, New York). ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Owner's name and address printed label to top of front free endpaper. Unobtrusive, very small 'coffee' splash mark to outer margin of page 177, and tiny splash mark to a tiny section of the fore-edge of text-block. Spine tight. In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrappers bright. ***222mm x 144mm. 218 pages including notes to the end of each chapter and index to rear. ***Contents: Reference Key to Nietzsche's texts; Introduction; Part One: Nobles and Exemplars: 1. Nietzsche, Enlightenment and the Problem of Noble Ethics by David Owen; 2. Annunciation and Rebirth: The Prefaces of 1886 by Daniel W. Conway; 3. Stendhal's ecstatic embrace of History as the Antidote for decadence by Brain Domino; Part Two: Laughter and Comedy: 4. Nietzsche's Best Jokes by Laurence Lampert; 5. Waves of Uncountable Laughter by Kathleen Marie Higgins; 6. Laughter: a Tool in Moral Perfectionism? John Lippitt; Part Three: Art, Nature and the Transhuman: 7. A Pessimism of Strength: Nietzsche and the Tragic Sublime by Jim Urpeth; 8. Creating the Future: Legislation and Aesthetics by Gary Banham; 9. Staying Loyal to the Earth: Nietzsche as an Ecological Thinker by Graham Parkes; 10. Loving the Poison: On the 'Meaning' of the Transhuman Condition by Keith Ansell Pearson. ***'This wide-ranging collection of essays, explores various aspects of Nietzsche's thought, centered upon the general issue of futurity. It asks such questions as: What are the roles of human exemplars, moral perfectionism and noble ethics in our 'self-overcoming'? What place does laughter have in Nietzsche's vision of the future? What contribution can Nietzsche make to the issue of humanity's relation to the natural world in an age of ecological crisis? Or to questions about the "transhuman condition" arising from contemporary views of evolution? ***John Lippett has published numerous articles on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and theories of humour and laughter.' (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***An extremely hard to find first impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice bright condition. ***An extremely detailed and scholarly collection of philosophical essays of interest to academics and existentialists studying the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Loose Leaf. Zustand: Acceptable. Some general wear. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.