Degeneration. Translated from the Second Edition of the German Work

Nordau, Max. Degeneration. Translated from the Second Edition of the German Work. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. Later printing. Octavo. xiv, 566pp. Index. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black. A near fine copy in a later acetate dust wrapper.

Contents: The dusk of the nation — The symptoms — Diagnosis — Etiology — The psychology of mysticism — The Pre-Raphaelites — Symbolism — Tolstoism — The Richard Wagner cult — Parodies of mysticism — The psychology of ego-mania — Parnassian and diabolists — Decadents and aesthetes — Ibsenism — Friedrich Nietzsche — Zola and his school — The ‘Young German’ plagiarists — Prognosis — Therapeutics.

The first D. Appleton edition was 1895. This popular sociological of its day is its 15th printing. Near fine. (50753) $65