8231. [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VII, Heft 3 [Volume VII, Issue 3].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1938. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

8232. [Benjamin, Walter].

“L’Oeuvre d’art à l’époque de sa reproduction mécanisée” [First Edition of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, surely the most important work on cultural criticism ever written and here available in its first printing within Volume I of Jahrgang V, 1936 [Annual V, 1936] of the “Zeitschrift fuer Sozialforschung”]. All three Volumes of the very rare “Jahrgang V” are present with one Volume bearing the name of Walter Benjamin’s friend Alfred Sohn-Rethel on the cover]. This most spectacular provenance is not the only surprise but the 1936-set of “Jahrgang V” came to us as part of a nearly complete set of the Zeitschrift fuer Sozialforschung [24 Issues printed in 22 Issues with only three issues missing (Jahrgang I, Heft 1 und Heft 2 und Jahrgang IX, Heft 1)] and the Periodical does not only include all the Volumes with Benjamin’s Essays but one of the issues is actually an original “File Copy” of the “Institute for Research in Social Science” and one issue is stamped “New School Library – Aug 26 1940” and another from the “William Graham Sumner Club at the Sociology Department / Yale University”.

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936. Octavo. Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. The Volume which includes the First Edition of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in stunning condition. Three Volumes with stronger signs of wear and all other Volumes in good, very good+ or even better condition. Fantastic provenance also of the Issue 3 of Jahrgang V in 1936 which bears Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s name. Sohn-Rethel’s possession of this issue is not only plausible but reflects all the developments known in critical writings of the Frankfurt School and is the exact time in which he tried, through his friendship with Adorno, to find a philosophical home within the Institute for Social Research. An endeavour which eventually failed through the intervention of Horkheimer but this would not have stopped him to follow the path of the Institute in Exile and its seminal Periodical. We can NOT determine if the other issues belonged to Sohn-Rethel as well. [More images on request].

8233. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang III, Heft 1 [Volume III, Issue 1].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1934. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

8234. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang V, Heft 1 [Volume V, Issue 1].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With very few pencil-markings in the essay by Herbert Marcuse.

8235. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VI, Heft 2 [Volume VI, Issue 2].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1937. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With an annotation (and exclamation mark) in the chapter on Knut Hamsun (page 315).

8236. [Benjamin, Walter] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VIII, Doppelheft 1/2 [Volume VIII, Double-Issue 1/2].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1939. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

8237. [Benjamin, Walter] [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang IV, Heft 2 [Volume IV, Issue 2].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1935. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

8238. [Sohn-Rethel, Alfred] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang V, Heft 3 [Volume V, Issue 3].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With several pencil-markings and exclamation-markings in the segment of Philosophical reviews (pages 411 forward). Text-Markings include highlighting a book by Stomps on Heidegger’s Hermeneutics, a review of Benedetto Croce etc.

8239. [Sohn-Rethel, Alfred] / [Horkheimer, Max / Adorno, Theodor W.].

Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Studies in Philosophy and Social Science]: Jahrgang VI, Heft 1 [Volume VI, Issue 1].

First Edition. Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1937. Octavo (16.4 cm wide x 24.4 cm high). Softcover / Original Publisher’s wrappers. One of the Rare Volumes in original wrappers. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. With some markings in pencil and one annotation [in pencil: “Marcuse – Befreiung des Tieres”] in the chapter by Max Horkheimer “The latest attack on metaphysics”.

8240. [David Naylor Geology & Petroleum Collection] – [Middle East Collection with Kuwait / Iran (Persia) / Yemen / Jordan] Naylor, David (Dave).

Collection of two (2) large boxes with rare and sometimes inscribed, Printed Materials and very rare Geological Surveys with Maps (for example it includes the very rare Geological Survey of Iran) from the private Reference- library of Geologist Prof. David (Dave) Naylor regarding Kuwait, Iraq (near Basrah), Lebanon, Jordan (Halat Ammar and Al Mudawwara), Jordan in general, Arava Valley (Dead Sea). See a full list of the contents below. These materials are all publications, sometimes official government papers or maps or academic publications from fellow geologists as well as for example official publications of talks given for OAPEC. All publications are revolving around the evaluation of Petroleum Deposits, Petroleum Geology and Stratigraphy or Hydrocarbon in the “Near and Middle East” – Maps and Charts and offprints, all of them rare publications and some only reprinted for private circulation. The focus of the publications ranges from very scientific-geological (″The Fauna of some Recent Marine Deposits near Basrah, Iraq”) to actual problems of prospecting (″Some Problems of Petroleum Geology in Kuwait”). These two boxes are only the Middle East Section of the David Naylor Collection (see all the Materials we own from the David Naylor-Reference library on our website). The collection also includes books related to the region (inquire for separate list).

Amman (Jordan) / Kuwait / Mexico / Potsdam, etc., c.1958 – 2011. Quarto. c. 1200 pages plus maps. Hardcover Boxes / Two bespoke made Boxes for the private reference library of Geologist David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.