DIE STRUKTUR DER EXISTENZ: EINFUHRUNG IN DIE KUNST DER INTERPRETATION.
Zurich: Speer-Verlag, [1951]. First Edition [In German]. With the signature of scholar Richard A. Macksey on the front endpaper. Also, with crayon drawings on both the pastedown & front endpaper (by Macksey?). Macksey, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, was a legend in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies and a leader in the humanities. Macksey co-founded the Johns Hopkins Humanities Center in 1966 as a meeting ground and incubator for problems, ideas, and discussions across disciplines. He read and wrote in six languages, and maintained a celebrated library of more than 70,000 books and manuscripts in his home, the largest private library in Maryland. The library covered every genre in just about every language. Theophil Spoerri [1890-1974, was a Swiss writer and academic. Spoerri held an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (1950). In 1940 he joined with others to form an anti-Nazi organization called the Gotthard League, becoming its first president. He was also a member of the Neue Helvetische Gesellschaft (New Helvetic Society) and of the Oxford Group along with the Moral Re-Armament movement that grew out of it. 8vo., light-brown cloth, stamped in gilt, in dust jacket; 76 pages. Item #57657
Very Good (covers nice with very minor soil; contents clean & tight, small bump head of spine); worn (edges rubbed, small chip mid-spine; several small internal repairs with clear, archival tape) d/j.
Price: $50.00