NIETZSCHE, Friedrich.

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Also sprach Zarathustra. First edition, first collected issue, of the first three parts of Nietzsche's masterpiece: at once the most readable and the widely read of his books. The original front wrapper has been bound in at the front. The prose-poem Zarathustra was originally published in three separate parts by Ernst Schmeitzner between 1883 and 1884. On Schmeitzner's bankruptcy in 1886, the publisher E. W. Fritzsch bought up the unsold stock and re-issued the remaining sheets of these parts with a new title page. The final fourth part was first published five years later in 1891 (save for 45 privately printed copies in 1885), and consequently is often not found together with the first three."It is the first thorough statement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy and the masterpiece of his career" (Ency. Brit.).

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