By Leo Chestov; Camilla Coventry [trans.]; C. A. Macartney [trans.]
London   J. M. Dent and Sons Limited
9" by 6" xxxi, 413pp
The very scarce first UK edition of this philosophical work by Lev Shestov.
By Leo Chestov; Camilla Coventry [trans.]; C. A. Macartney [trans.]

1932 In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

London   J. M. Dent and Sons Limited
9" by 6" xxxi, 413pp
The very scarce first UK edition of this philosophical work by Lev Shestov.
£60.00
: 0.5kgs / : 964Y32

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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The very scarce first UK edition. 

In the original cloth binding. 

A series of philosophical essays from Russian existentialist and religious philosopher, Lev Shestov, who contemporary scholars have associated with the label "anti-philosophy". 

Contents include literary studies of Tolstoy and Dostoievsky, as well as readings of historical philosophers Spinoza and Plotinus. 

Translated from the German and collated from the Russian by Camilla Coventry and C. A. Macartney.

Condition

In the original cloth binding. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the head and tail of the spine. Front hinge is starting, but firm. Faded spots to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. With spots of ink to the fore edge affecting the odd page, otherwise bright and clean.

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