21. Viereck, Peter.

Collection of Books, Offprints and Ephemera, rare Association – copies from the personal library of american writer, Peter Viereck as well as from other famous libraries of philosophers and writers in Peter Viereck’s circle of friends. [Detailed photographs on our website under “Libraries & Collections”] – The Collection includes a wonderful association-copy between the first african american pulitzer prize-winner, poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Peter Viereck, also an interestingly inscribed association copy of Viereck’s “Conservatism Revisited”, sent to philospher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, a signed version of Peter Viereck’s book “Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals – Babbitt Jr. vs. the Rediscovery of Values”, an inscribed book by Harry Levin to Peter Viereck, an inscribed book by Peter’s father, George Sylvester Viereck, as well as other books of interest. Also included is a larger collection of ephemeral material and offprints, listed here: 1. “Peter Viereck – Profile” – Article by E.V. Griffith in “Poetry Now”, Vol, VI, No. 2 [Issue 32] – With three excellent photographs of Viereck, shown throughout the article. Griffith discusses Viereck’s genesis as a writer, his time in Harvard and his important contribution to conservatism etc. / 2. Peter Viereck – “The Last Decade in Poetry- New Dilemmas and New Solutions” (In this 1954 – Offprint from “Literature in the Modern World”, Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers, Viereck discusses Wallace Stevens (″Wallace Stevens’ is the sorcery of surfaces. For this he pays a price: the sacrifice of deep feeleing″and Robert Lowell) / 3. Peter Viereck – “Decorum and Terror: Homage to Goethe and Hart Crane” – Original Offprint from “Essays in Criticism”, with a manuscript correction by Viereck / 4. Peter Viereck – “New Views on Metternich” (Offprint from “The Review of Politics”) / 5. Peter Viereck – “The Rootless ‘Roots’: Defects in the New Conservatism (Original Offprint from “″The Antioch Review”, Summer 1955, issue) / 6. Galleyproof Review for NY Times Sunday Book section of Russell Kirk, by Peter Viereck – With two manuscript notes on the Galley by Peter Viereck to american philosoper and Leo Strauss admirer, Harvey Mansfield: “Harvey, many thanks for your piece on Spitzer + Auerbach which meant a lot to me (I’d known Spitzer). Warm regards to both of you – Peter” and a second manuscript entry by Viereck: “Saw Brodsky …..Finishing a new book…poems – Peter” [Mansfield and Viereck must have sent the Galley back and forth between each other]. / 7. Peter Viereck – “First Advance Reviews on “McCarthy and the Communists” by James Rorty and Moshe Decter – With a highlighting of the review-citation of Peter Viereck’s opinion “All conservative and liberals reading this irrefutable indictment of McCarthy’s methods should unite to conserve our traditional Constitutional framework against subversion by McCarthyism as well as by Communism” / 8. “Peter Viereck – A List of his principal works” / 9. Peter Viereck – “Unlaughing and Untragic” – (Original Offprint from “American Quarterly” with some markings by Viereck, ticking off each paragraph) / 9. Peter Viereck – “Reply to a critique of one of Viereck’s publications” / 10. Peter Viereck – “Ogling through Ice: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym” [Original Offprint from “Books abroad”, April 1971, 11 pages – Including Peter Viereck’s Translation of Georg Heym’s poem “Letze Wache” (″Final Vigil”)] / 11. Original Book Review by Jacques Barzun of Peter Viereck’s Masterpiece: “Metapolitics – From the Romantics to Hitler” – Original Offprint from “Journal of the History of Ideas, January 1942, Vol. VIII., No.1” – Including Peter Viereck’s Reply to Barzun’s “passionate” Review, calling Viereck’s book “an ardent attempt to psycho-analyze the religion of the Nazis”. 6 pages/

Notre Dame / New York and others, 1951 – c. 1955 Octavo. Original Offprints and loose pages etc. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Peter Viereck.

22. Viereck, Peter.

Collection of very interesting offprints, pamphlets and reviews by Peter Viereck and on Peter Viereck (all from Peter Viereck’s personal library). The Collection includes: 1. “Peter Viereck – Profile” – Article by E.V. Griffith in “Poetry Now”, Vol, VI, No. 2 [Issue 32] – With three excellent photographs of Viereck, shown throughout the article. Griffith discusses Viereck’s genesis as a writer, his time in Harvard and his important contribution to conservatism etc. / 2. Peter Viereck – “The Last Decade in Poetry- New Dilemmas and New Solutions” (In this 1954 – Offprint from “Literature in the Modern World”, Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers, Viereck discusses Wallace Stevens (″Wallace Stevens’ is the sorcery of surfaces. For this he pays a price: the sacrifice of deep feeleing″and Robert Lowell) / 3. Peter Viereck – “Decorum and Terror: Homage to Goethe and Hart Crane” – Original Offprint from “Essays in Criticism”, with a manuscript correction by Viereck / 4. Peter Viereck – “New Views on Metternich” (Offprint from “The Review of Politics”) / 5. Peter Viereck – “The Rootless ‘Roots’: Defects in the New Conservatism (Original Offprint from “″The Antioch Review”, Summer 1955, issue) / 6. Galleyproof Review for NY Times Sunday Book section of Russell Kirk, by Peter Viereck – With two manuscript notes on the Galley by Peter Viereck to american philosoper and Leo Strauss admirer, Harvey Mansfield: “Harvey, many thanks for your piece on Spitzer + Auerbach which meant a lot to me (I’d known Spitzer). Warm regards to both of you – Peter” and a second manuscript entry by Viereck: “Saw Brodsky …..Finishing a new book…poems – Peter” [Mansfield and Viereck must have sent the Galley back and forth between each other]. / 7. Peter Viereck – “First Advance Reviews on “McCarthy and the Communists” by James Rorty and Moshe Decter – With a highlighting of the review-citation of Peter Viereck’s opinion “All conservative and liberals reading this irrefutable indictment of McCarthy’s methods should unite to conserve our traditional Constitutional framework against subversion by McCarthyism as well as by Communism” / 8. “Peter Viereck – A List of his principal works” / 9. Peter Viereck – “Unlaughing and Untragic” – (Original Offprint from “American Quarterly” with some markings by Viereck, ticking off each paragraph) / 9. Peter Viereck – “Reply to a critique of one of Viereck’s publications” / 10. Peter Viereck – “Ogling through Ice: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym” [Original Offprint from “Books abroad”, April 1971, 11 pages – Including Peter Viereck’s Translation of Georg Heym’s poem “Letze Wache” (″Final Vigil”)] / 11. Original Book Review by Jacques Barzun of Peter Viereck’s Masterpiece: “Metapolitics – From the Romantics to Hitler” – Original Offprint from “Journal of the History of Ideas, January 1942, Vol. VIII., No.1” – Including Peter Viereck’s Reply to Barzun’s “passionate” Review, calling Viereck’s book “an ardent attempt to psycho-analyze the religion of the Nazis”. 6 pages/

Notre Dame / New York and others, 1951 – c. 1955 Octavo. Original Offprints and loose pages etc. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Peter Viereck.

23. Viereck, Peter.

Inner Liberty: the stubborn grit in the machine.

First Edition. Wallingford, Pendle Hill, 1957. 8°. 24 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of american poet Peter Viereck.

24. Viereck, Peter.

Metapolitics. From the Romantics to Hitler.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1941. 15,5 cm x 21,5 cm. XIV, 335 pages, XXIV. Original blue cloth hardcover. Gilt lettering on the spine. Geometrical flourishes impressed on the front board. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. A rip in the cloth at the bottom of the spine. Traces of foxing on the pages. From the library of Brandeis – Professor Harry Zohn. With several comments and annotations by Harry Zohn to the rear pastedown. [Books for Wartime. Borzoi Books].

25. Viereck, Peter.

Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals – Babbitt Jr. vs. the Rediscovery of Values. [″A powerful, often violent, often eloquent, often bitterly sardonic attack on mushy liberalism” – Gilbert Highet in Harper’s].

First Edition – Second Printing. Boston, The Beacon Press, 1953. 8°. XVI, 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent FINE / FINE condition. From the library of american poet Peter Viereck. Signed by Peter Viereck on the endpaper.

26. Viereck, Peter / [Quine, W.V.O.].

Conservatism Revisited. The Revolt against Revolt 1815-1949.

First British Edition. London, John Lehmann Ltd., 1950. 13,5 cm x 19,2 cm. XIII, 168 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and meaningfully inscribed by Peter Viereck to his friends, Logician and Philosopher, Willard Van Orman Quine and his wife Marge: “Van + Marge – this out of print Brit. ed. is where they omitted my appendix (in U.S.ed.) on Soviet-Nogilo [?] – Op – Peter”. From Quine’s personal library.

27. [Viereck, Peter] Abse, Dannie.

Dannie Abse.

First Edition. London, Vista Books, 1963. 11,2 cm x 18,9 cm. 48 pages. Original softcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Dannie Abse to american writer Peter Viereck: “To Peter – A poor exchange for the books you have been kind enough to give me, and which I so value – Dannie – Amherst, April ‘68”. [The Pocket Poets].

28. [Viereck, Peter] Eliot, Alexander.

Proud Youth.

First Edition. New York, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. 13 cm x 21 cm. 222 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Marble coloured boards, top edge green. Personal copy of the american poet Peter Viereck, signed and inscribed with a long inscription by his father George Sylvester Viereck: “For Peter – Xmas 1953 – G.S.V. – The most startling book I’ve come across this side of pornography, written by a descendent of President Eliot”.

29. [Viereck, Peter] Levin, Harry.

Contexts of Criticism. With an Appendix: James Joyce et l’idee de litterature mondiale.

First Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1957. 8°. XI, 294 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The jacket in very good+ condition with some minor tear. From the library of american writer Peter Viereck. Inscribed and signed on the endpaper: “For Peter from Harry with warm regards – Cambridge, 14. IV.57”.

30. [Viereck, Peter] Setterlind, Bo.

Bo Setterlinds Dikter. I Urval Och Med Kommentarer. Teckningar Av Lars Wellton.

Stockholm, Bonniers Folkbibliotek, 1957. 19cm x 12cm. 119 (7) pages. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Bo Setterlind to american writer Peter Viereck: “Peter Viereck – Cordially – […] Setterlind – Stockholm, April 28, 1963”.

31. Wakeman, John & Hilary / THE SHOp.

Collection & Archive of Poetry Publications of the Irish Poetry Magazine “The SHOp” – From the personal collection of the Founders and Editors of “The SHOp” – The collection includes publications which were sent by irish poets as well as english and international poets for review. Some of the books come with original letters by the authors, many of the books bear inscriptions and signatures. A full display of each publication, with photographs and bibliography are on our website under “Libraries & Collections” (look for “Wakeman Poetry Collection”).

Ireland, 1999-2014. Octavo. Original Softcover- and Hardcover-bindings Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Often signed, inscribed or with typed and manuscript letters to the editors.