Origins Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, First Edition (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Thus, First Folio Society Printing. 2 volume set in slipcase. Only issue is a minor bump to a bottom rear corner of the slipcase, with volume 2 then showing a very light bump to the bottom front corner as well. Otherwise in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing. Prior owner signature on ffep. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips, edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards slightly warped, betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.5.

First editions of the works of Hannah Arendt. Octavo, 7 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional set. Hannah Arendt was a historian and philosopher, who was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but she is best known for those dealing with the nature of wealth, power, and evil, as well as politics, direct democracy, authority, tradition, and totalitarianism. She is also remembered for the controversy surrounding the trial of Adolf Eichmann, for her attempt to explain how ordinary people become actors in totalitarian systems, which was considered by some an apologia, and for the phrase "the banality of evil." Her name appears in the names of journals, schools, scholarly prizes, humanitarian prizes, think-tanks, and streets; appears on stamps and monuments; and is attached to other cultural and institutional markers that commemorate her thought.

First edition of this masterpiece, by one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Hannah Arendt on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed. Hannah Arendt is "widely recognized as one of the most original and influential political thinkers of the 20th century." Origins of Totalitarianism, her first book in America, "established Arendt's reputation as a political thinker and has a good claim to be regarded as the key to her work" (Cambridge Companion, 1, 25). In this volume, "her acknowledged masterwork⦠she not only offered a uniquely clear-sighted, broad account of twentieth-century totalitarian politics and their antecedents, she also provided⦠a landmark contribution to the discourse of international human rights" (Benhabib, Politics in Dark Times, 83, 1). Consisting of three sections, Antisemitism, Imperialism and Totalitarianism, Origins "was written, simply, to begin what Arendt called 'the interminable dialogue' with a new and horrific form of politics⦠It was in this book that Arendt began to grapple with the problem of political evilâ"evil as policyâ"on an enormous and hitherto unimaginable scale" (Cambridge Companion, 2). Le Monde placed the book among the 100 best books of any kind of the 20th century, while the National Review ranked it #15 on its list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute listed it among the 50 best non-fiction books of the century.

First edition of this masterpiece, by one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Hannah Arendt on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed. Hannah Arendt is "widely recognized as one of the most original and influential political thinkers of the 20th century." Origins of Totalitarianism, her first book in America, "established Arendt's reputation as a political thinker and has a good claim to be regarded as the key to her work" (Cambridge Companion, 1, 25). In this volume, "her acknowledged masterwork⦠she not only offered a uniquely clear-sighted, broad account of twentieth-century totalitarian politics and their antecedents, she also provided⦠a landmark contribution to the discourse of international human rights" (Benhabib, Politics in Dark Times, 83, 1). Consisting of three sections, Antisemitism, Imperialism and Totalitarianism, Origins "was written, simply, to begin what Arendt called 'the interminable dialogue' with a new and horrific form of politics⦠It was in this book that Arendt began to grapple with the problem of political evilâ"evil as policyâ"on an enormous and hitherto unimaginable scale" (Cambridge Companion, 2). Le Monde placed the book among the 100 best books of any kind of the 20th century, while the National Review ranked it #15 on its list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute listed it among the 50 best non-fiction books of the century.

First edition of this masterpiece, by one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Hannah Arendt is "widely recognized as one of the most original and influential political thinkers of the 20th century." Origins of Totalitarianism, her first book in America, "established Arendt's reputation as a political thinker and has a good claim to be regarded as the key to her work" (Cambridge Companion, 1, 25). In this volume, "her acknowledged masterwork⦠she not only offered a uniquely clear-sighted, broad account of twentieth-century totalitarian politics and their antecedents, she also provided⦠a landmark contribution to the discourse of international human rights" (Benhabib, Politics in Dark Times, 83, 1). Consisting of three sections, Antisemitism, Imperialism and Totalitarianism, Origins "was written, simply, to begin what Arendt called 'the interminable dialogue' with a new and horrific form of politics⦠It was in this book that Arendt began to grapple with the problem of political evilâ"evil as policyâ"on an enormous and hitherto unimaginable scale" (Cambridge Companion, 2). Le Monde placed the book among the 100 best books of any kind of the 20th century, while the National Review ranked it #15 on its list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute listed it among the 50 best non-fiction books of the century.

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, first printing. xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering, red topstain. Near Fine, light wear to tips; contents free of markings and bright, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, small chip at head, lightly worn. The political philosopher's first major work, following some articles, translations, and Sechs Essays in German. Named one of Le Monde's 100 best books of the 20th Century.

Hardcover. First Edition, Early Printing. Condition is Very Good, bound in full blue cloth, with a Fair price clipped dust jacket. Staining, tape repair, chips and tears to jacket. Owner bookplate inside front panel. Faint stain to front end page, faint stain to corners of a few pages. Toning to interior. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight and solid. Large 8vo, 9 1/2"h x 6 1/2"w.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published in the same year in the United States under the title, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Scattered, but rare, pencil brackets and underlined sentences. Wear to head and heel and along the gutters. Solid copy despite flaws. First British edition. BP/Case.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. An attractive first edition of Arendt's first major work written in English. 8vo. 24 by 16 cm. xv, 477 pp. Light wear to book itself. Minor chips and a few short closed tears at edges of DJ, but this is essentially intact and now protected with mylar. DJ is also not price clipped. Showing $6.75 price.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition, first printing. From the library of American novelist Larry McMurtry, signed by him and dated 1965 on the front free endpaper, and with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering, red topstain. Very Good with soiling to cloth. Foxing to endsheets and contents tanned. In a Fair unclipped tattered dust jacket with toning, chipping, foxing and splits to joints; clumsy paper tape repairs at verso. A well loved copy of the political philosopher's first major work, following some articles, translations, and Sechs Essays in German. Named one of the 100 best books of the 20th Century by Le Monde.

First British edition. First British edition, first printing. (Published in the United States as The Origins of Totalitarianism the same year.) xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light soiling to edges, worn tips, in a Fair dust jacket, chipped along edges in numerous places; panels split, reattached with archival mending tissue on verso; spine panel sunned. Jacket in rough shape but very rare.