1. 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.

2. 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].

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. [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].

6. [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”.

7. [Viereck, Peter] Gardner, Howard.

The Quest for Mind – Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and the Structuralist Movement.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1973. 15 x 22 cm. 276 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective mylar. Very good condition with minimal signs of usage on the dustjacket only. Private inscription on front pastedown to Peter Viereck: “To Peter, this birthday present – Gardnerdoesn’t quite explain why the Piagetian approach is so revolutionary, but he does a very good job explaining how. Thought you’d find this interesting reading — a good warm-up to my book. Sincerely, John”.

8. [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”.

9. [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”.

10. [Viereck, Peter] Williams, Oscar (ed.)

New Poems 1942 – An Anthology of British and American Verse. [Including: Wallace Stevens – “Six Discordant Songs”].

First Edition. New York, Peter Pauper Press, 1942. 16 x 24 cm. 286 pages. With a section of photographs of the poets. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Inscribed by Oscar Williams to Peter Viereck in May 1947. Very good condition with minor rubbing and edgewear on the dustjacket.