[NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH]. Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None. Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1908.
SECOND IMPRESSION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION; cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (24 x 15.5 x 5 cm), pp. xxvi, [2], 444. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and embossed publisher's device to the front cover and the spine, page edges untrimmed, coated endpapers, initial and terminal blanks, half-title. Condition: VERY GOOD. Contents complete. Binding tight and secure. Very slight bumping to spine ends. Some light scattered foxing. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. A handsome copy. Scarce thus.
Notes: The first English translation of Nietzsche's defining philosophical work. A sprawling, rhapsodic work, written primarily in prose, Zarathustra served as a thunderous announcement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy. Under the guise of the central character Zarathustra, a re-invention and subversion of his namesake, Nietzsche expounds his declamatory message of the Übermensch, the death of God, and the transvaluation of all values. This English translation was originally published in 1896 by H. Henry and Co. Ltd. in London. The remaining unsold sheets of the first edition were then purchased by publisher T. Fisher Unwin in 1899 who re-issued the book and eventually printed the present second impression in 1908. An American edition had also been published in 1896 by the Macmillan Company in New York.
