Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A sample of essays from Germany, France and the US available for the first time in English - the editors have "brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology - and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors - Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey - take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought." INSCRIBED and signed on the title page by BOTH editors to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. Notes on contributors, index. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-226293785.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second (and probably most influential) book, an attack on contemporary philosophical and political nihilism. The book begins by reflecting on the consequences of the separation of the conception of reason from the conception of good in modern rationalism, which took the value-neutral science of mathematics as its model. It follows from this separation that reason can say nothing about its own goodness, or that the assertion of goodness is necessarily non-rational. However, he argues forcefully for the goodness of reason, and suggests a return to the ideas of Plato. Rosen is noted in his writings as relying as much as possible on non-technical language - this "reflects his conviction that ordinary experience is the basis of the intelligibility of philosophy." SIGNED on the title page. Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so signed. 241 pp.

New York: New Classic Series / New Directions, (1949) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in French in 1938, and first published in the UK in 1949, this novel became one of the most important of the post-war era, and introduced existentialism to a broad audience. Translated from French by Lloyd Alexander. Number 35 in the New Classics series, in an iconic Alvin Lustig dust jacket (James Laughlin described the effect of these dust jackets: "About eight books were in print before Lustig came into the picture. They were jacketed in a very conservative, "booky", way. Sales were pretty dreary. Then we brightened the books up with the Lustig covers. Immediately, they began to move.") Sartre, of course, is also notorious for turning down a Nobel award. The earliest copies of these books were printed in England, as this one was, and they were slightly larger in format, measuring 7 7/16 inches tall, 5 inches wide. 238 pp.