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‎The Only Edition. Borokhov B. Virtualism and the Religious-Ethical Problem in Marxism. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Edinstvennoe izdanie. Borokhov B. Virtualizm i religiozno-eticheskaya problema v marksizme.. description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).With the attachment of the article by L. Ya. Berlinraut-B. Borokhov. Excerpt from the biography. Moscow: Molot 1920. VI 2 116 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbb7f635d8ffc7f81a‎

‎Begrebet Angest. En simpel psychologisk=paapegende Overveielse i Retning af det dogmatiske Problem om Arvesynden. Af Vigilius Hafniensis. - [THE ONLY KNOWN COPY ON SPECIAL PAPER OF THE WORK THAT INTRODUCED ""ANGST"" IN PHILOSOPHY]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Reitzel, 1844. 8vo. (8), 184 pp. Bound in a black glitted full paper binding mimicking Kierkegaard’s gift-bindings. With Gothic gilt lettering and printing year to spine. Top edge gilt, otherwise uncut. Bound by Anker Kyster’s Eftf. 1958, more specifically Bent Andree, with his name in pencil under the book-binder stamp on front free end-paper. A bit of wear to extremities. One leaf loose. The copy is a most curious one. It was been washed and restored and then bound by one of Denmarks’ best bookbinders of all time, clearly under specific instructions to both keep it original, but to also reflect the typical bindings Kierkegaard had made. The copy is on fine, bright white vellum-paper (!), uncut, and bound with the original back-strip with the original printed title-label, preserving all of the printed text and with blank blue wrappers of the exact same paper as the back-strip. To our knowledge, The Concept of Anxiety did not appear in blue blank wrappers. It did, however, appear in the characteristic blue paper binding. The wrappers here bound in, however, do not match this paper exactly.‎

‎A unique copy of the scarce first edition of this classic of Existentialism, being the only known copy printed on fine paper. The Concept of Anxiety is one of Kierkgaard's greatest works, his primary psychological work, and the work with which ""Angst"" is introduced in philosophy. It is futhermore (together with Sixteen Unbuilding Discourses - the amputated Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses), the rarest of Kierkegaard's works, at is was printed in half as many copies as his other works. Not a single presentation-copy of the work is known to exist, no copy on special paper has been registered (before this), and merely a single copy of the work is listed in the auction catalogue of Kierkegaard’s books sold after he died (the whereabouts of this copy unknown). This could possibly be the hitherto unlocated copy from Kierkegaard’s own collection. Or it could be a copy he gave away, the only one to have ever surfaced. It is undoubtedly one or the other, seeing that it is on special vellumpaper, on which Kierkegard only had copies made for himself, for presentation, or for Regine.There could be several explanations for the mystery of the bound in wrappers: 1) they are new wrappers made to match the original spine with the original printed title-label" 2) they are the original blue paper taken off the original cardboard-boards in order to bind them in a binding that mimics a Kierkegaardpresentation-binding 3) they are unknown original wrappers, not previously registered for The Concept of Anxiety. It is this classic of Existentialism that introduced the notion of “Angst” (anxiety) in philosophy. If Kierkegaard had written nothing else, The Concept of Anxiety alone would have cemented him as one of the most important thinkers since antiquity. Nowhere else can one find an account of the concept of anxiety that comes close in importance to the one Kierkegaard gives in the present work. Using the Fall in the Garden of Eden as the foundation of the analysis, he succeeds in describing what no-one has been able to before or since. “Long before modern psychology had entered puberty, Kierkegaard unfurled advanced psychological concepts that in many senses were Freudian before Freud was around. In his primary psychological work, The Concept of Anxiety, he presents his detailed analyses of the relationship of anxiety to phenomena such as freedom, sexuality, original sin, and history.” (The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre). Being one of his most important and influential philosophical works, The Concept of Anxiety is essential to all later existentialist writers. It was arguably this work that more than any other influenced Existentialism. The work bears a printed dedication to his beloved Poul Martin Møller, one of the most beautiful and moving dedications in a philosophical work. Poul Martin Møller was his philosophy professor, but more than that he was a moral mentor and one of a few people that Kierkegaard truly admired and cared for. Poul Martin Møller died in 1838, leaving almost no published works behind he is the only person outside of Kierkegaard’s immediate family (here including Regine), who had been honoured with a printed dedication in any of his books. Apart from the title Sixteen Upbuilding Discourses (the amputated Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses – without the two that were quickly sold out), The Concept of Anxiety is by far the scarcest of Kierkegaard’s works – “The Concept of Anxiety was only printed in 250 copies!” (Textspejle, p. 58, translated from Danish), which is ca half of most of the other works. It is, interestingly, the only one of the pseudonymous writings from the period that was reprinted, despite the poor sales numbers of the first issue. In the summer of 1847, when Reitzel buys the remainders of the first issue, a mere 165 copies of what is arguably now considered Kierkegaard’s most important work had been sold. The Concept of Anxiety is not only notorious for its pivotal importance in the history of philosophy and for essentially being the theoretical foundation of Existentialism" among Kierkegaard collectors and bibliophiles in general, it is also notorious for its scarcity, having been printed in a mere ca 250 copies. Furthermore, like Fear and Trembling, not a single presentation-copy of the work is known to exist, nor had any copy printed on special paper ever been discovered (until now). A single copy of the work is listed in the auction catalogue of Kierkegaard’s books sold after he died. But the whereabouts of this copy is unknown (possibly until now). Himmelstrup 62. The present copy is no. 24a in Girsel's ""Kierkegaard"" (The Catalogue) which can be found here.‎

‎The gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion. (Part I). (Received June 16, 1937). (+) II. (Received May 29, 1939). 2 Papers (Paper II only Einstein and Infeld).‎

‎(Princeton, NJ.), Annals of Mathematics, 1938 a. 1940. Both papers in orig. printed wrappers. Offprints from ""Annals of Mathematics"", Vol. 39, No. 1, january, 1938 and Vol. 41, No. 2, April, 1940. Pp. 65-100 and pp. 455-464. Both clean and fine. This copy has belonged to Abraham Pais (1918-2000) - the famous Einstein scholar, theoretical physicist and Einsteins collegue at Princeton - and having his name on top of both frontwrappers ""A Pais"".‎

‎First editions, in the scarce offprint versions, of Einstein's last and highly important contributions to General relativity, and in which is shown that the equation of motion follows directly from the field equation that defined the geometry.""Einstein's last importent contribution to general relativity deals again with the problem of motion. It is the work done with Leopold Infeld and Banash Hoffmann on the N-body problem of motion. In these papers, the gravitational field is no longer treated as external. Instead, it and the motion of its (singular) sources are treated simultaneously. Anew approximationscheme is introduced in which the fields are no longer necessarily weak but in which the source velocities are small compared with the light velocity .... The equations obtained have found use in situations where Newtonian interaction must be included. '(These equations) are widely used in analyses of planetary orbits in the solarsystem. For example, the Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses them, in modified form, to calculate ephmerides for high-precision tracking of planets and spacecraft.""(Pais ""Subtle is the Lord"", p. 290-91).""The problem of the equation of motion of bodies is the following. The 1916 theory had a classical structure in the sense that there were both field equations (the curvature of space-time is determined by the mass and motion of bodies in space-time) and equations of motion of bodies (the world line of small mass is a geodesic). Are these two statements really separate? If the field equations were linear, they indeed would be. They are not linear, however, and Einstein showed (in the papers offered) that if matter is represented by a point singularity of the metric field, these singularities are located on world lines that are geodesics of space-time, provided its metric satisfies the equation of general relativity.""(DSB).Weil: 202 a. 295 (both with an asterix denoting a major paper). - Boni: 236 a. 236.1.‎

‎The gravitational Equations and the problem of Motion. (I-) II. (Part II only with Infeld).‎

‎Baltimore, Princeton University Press, 1938 a.1940. Royal8vo. Bound in 2 full cloth, gilt lettering to spines. In: Annals of Mathematics"", Series 2, Vol. 39 and vol. 40. (Entire volumes offered). The papers: pp. 65-100 a. pp. 455-464. Clean and fine.også on a generalization...... pais p. 496‎

‎First appearance of these two importent papers on the General theory of Relativity, in which is shown that the equation of motion follows directly from the field equation that defined the geometry.""Einstein's last importent contribution to general relativity deals again with the problem of motion. It is the work done with Leopold Indfeld and Banesh Hoffmann on the N-body problem of motion. In these papers, the gravitational field is no longer treated as external. Instead, it and the motion of its (singular) sources are treated simultaneously. A new approximation scheme is introduced in which the fields are no longer necessarily weak but in which the source velocities are small compared with the light velocity... (These equations) are widely used in analyses of planetary orbits in the solar system.""(Pais ""Subtle is the Lord"", pp. 290-91).Weil: 202 a. 205, both with an asterix, denoting a major paper. - Boni: 236 a. 236.1.‎