Translated, with a Preface, by John P. Leavey, Jr. Edited by David B. Allison. First edition in English. 8vo. vi, 207, [1] pp. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in blue, dust jacket (faint even toning to cheap paper stock, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; only minor shelf wear to extremities of jacket, small patch of surface wear to rear panel, notwithstanding an excellent copy). New York, Nicolas Hays, Ltd, 1978.
The first English translation of Derrida’s first published work, his substantial introduction to Husserl’s essay On the Origins of Geometry, a short independent fragment included, according to the authors probable intent, as Appendix III of Husserl’s posthumous, unfinished work The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1936).
