Norrkoeping, Eric Biornström, (below, on printed cover: En Commission - Londres, Trübner & Co), 1863. (2), iv, (2, blank), 96 pp. 8vo. Sewn in the original yellow printed covers. Anderson 302; Kilgour 436; Zaleski 197. First separate edition: Herzen's letters to Turgenev, which first appeared in My Past and Thoughts, published here with a new introduction. 'Herzen's renewed interest in Russia's past and future was closely linked to his bitter disappointment in the "old world". He was a discerning critic of bourgeois society, even if his strictures were not always fair. The modern reader is struck especially by certain far-sighted observations, that seem to anticipate criticism of a complex phenomenon we have come to refer to as "mass culture". Herzen's most interesting comments in this respect are to be found in a series of articles entitled Ends and Beginnings, in which he conducted a polemic with Ivan Turgenev, who had become the moral authority for liberal Westernizers in Russia' (Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 170). Alexander Herzen (1812-70) was a prominent nineteenth-century Russian social thinker and is known as the 'father of Russian socialism.' Early in his intellectual development, Herzen was influenced by German idealist thinkers such as Schiller and Schelling. He believed in the autonomy and dignity of the individual and opposed forces, such as family and state, that oppressed the individual. Later, under the influence of French socialist thinkers such as Charles Fourier, Herzen's thought became more radical. Herzen projected his earlier concern for the oppressed individual onto society at large and he became a supporter of socialism. The socialism he envisioned was a loose federation of self-governing communes. Only in such a system could the ideal society be achieved- according to Herzen that society would be a free association of individuals which provided for the full flowering of each personality. Herzen initially placed his hopes for this future order in the European socialist movement. After the failure of the 1848 revolutions to achieve socialist principles, however, Herzen became disillusioned about European prospects and turned his attention to Russia. Herzen argued that socialist transformation would actually come first to Russia because communal institutions such as the peasant commune survived and bourgeois attitudes hadn't yet emerged. This sense of the advantages of Russian 'backwardness' was influential among the Populists in the 1870s. Herzen has been called a 'gentry revolutionary.' The illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, Herzen viewed the gentry as a progressive class. The revolution he envisioned was for the people but not necessarily by them. Also, his socialism was a national destiny rather than a class one, and because he promoted the value of individualism in collectivist form--in other words, the full flowering of the individual could best be realized in a socialist order. Among Herzen's works are From the Other Shore (1848-50) and The Russian People and Socialism and his autobiography, My Past and Thoughts.He founded a periodical, the famous Kolokol, in whose pages the free word first appeared in the Russian language, unhampered by censor or police, exposing the government's secrets, criticizing bureaucratic abuses, approving the good intentions of the czar, the 'liberator', and trying to dictate to him a reform program.
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Editions Anthropos - 1974 - Petit in-8, broché, couverture illustrée en N&B - 249 p.
Bon état - Couverture insolée avec menus frottements
Couverture souple. Broché. 279 pages.
Livre. Editions de la Table Ronde (Collection : L'ordre du jour), 1965.
Presses Pocket, 1974, 311 pages, in 12 broché, format poche, bon état général, papier légèrement jauni.
1968 Robert Laffont, 1968, 624 pages, in 8 broché, état d'usage, quelques usures, pliures et frottements sur le dos, coiffe supérieure légèrement déchirée.
Flammarion, J'ai lu leur aventure, collection bleu, 1966, n° A140/141, in12 format poche, etat moyen, 445 pages.
Paris, Paris, Albin Michel, 1975. in-8°, 355 pp, broche, couv. illustree en couleurs.
Bel exemplaire [SO-4]
Paris, Albin Michel, 1972. 15 x 22, 315 pp., broché, bon état.
traduit de l'anglais par Robert Latour.
1935 Paris, Parisis-éditions,1935. In-16,broché, 152 p.
texte frais sur papier fort,trace de mouillure au dos,
Paris, Plon, 1971. Traduction française par J.-R. Major. Coll. "Terre Humaine, Civilisations et Sociétés". Fort in-8 relié toile noire, jaquette ill. noir et blanc, 768 p. Avec 44 illustrations, 5 cartes in-t. et 52 photos h.-t. Très bon état.
Paris, Denoël et Steele, numéro spécial de la revue "Le Document", n° 12 (2e année), octobre 1936, 1935 in-folio, agrafé, couverture illustrée, 15 pp. Rare.
La Brèche, 1985, 259 pp., broché, passages soulignés ou signalés au crayon, traces de plis de lecture sur le dos, état correct.
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Paris, Éditions Du May, 1989 ; in-4, 191 pp., reliure d’éditeur pleine toile, sous jaquette. État neuf.
Tome I. Le livre conquérant. Du Moyen Âge au milieu du XVIIe siècle; Tome II. Le livre triomphant 1660-1830; Tome III. Le temps des éditeurs. Du Romantisme à la Belle Époque; Tome IV. Le livre concurrencé 1900-1950. Bien complet en 4 tomes. Une somme sur le sujet. Passionnant. Exemplaires à l'état de neuf mais sans les jaquettes. Cartonnage d'éditeur aux plats illustrés. Très bon Paris Promodis 1983-1986 4 volumes in-4°
Monaco, Éditions du Rocher, 2005 ; in-4, 702 pp., broché. Préface de Stéphane Courtois. Traduit du hongrois par Mathias Kolos.
Paris, Albin Michel, 1968 ; in-8, 227 pp., broché. Très bon état.
Couverture souple. Revue 15 x 23 cm. 128 pages. Légèrement défraîchi.
Périodique. Editions Tallandier (Collection : Historia), 1976.
Couverture souple. Revue 15 x 23 cm. 128 pages. Légèrement défraîchi.
Périodique. Editions Tallandier (Collection : Historia), 1976.
"1937. Paris Intersyndical des Services Publics 1937 - Broché 13 5 cm x 21 5 cm 128 pages - Texte de H. Lartigue préface de Hénaff photo noir & blanc in-texte - Etat d'usage"
New York Pantheon Books 1973 1 vol. relié in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette illustrée, 278 pp., index. Première édition américaine. Texte en anglais. Très bon état.