It was then that Austin began the preparation of these regional handbooks for issue down to platoon level. “Before D-day he had accumulated a vast quantity of information on the coast defences of northern France, on the base areas, supplies, formations, and transport systems behind them, and indeed on every aspect of the German defence forces and civilian administration in the ‘theatre’ . . . and a kind of guidebook was compiled for the invading troops” (p. 9). The title Invade Mecum was, Austin’s sister recalled, “a clever double take of a booklet given to all new boys at Shrewsbury School – Vade Mecum – which they had to carry with them on all occasions” (Lendrum). The effectiveness of these digests has been widely recognized: “It has been said of him that he directed this vast volume of work ‘without ever getting into serious difficulty of any kind’, and, more impressively, that ‘he was more than anybody responsible for the lifesaving accuracy of D-day Intelligence’” (Warnock). Austin left the army in 1945 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was appointed OBE, received the Croix de Guerre from the French, and was made an officer of the Legion of Merit by the United States. 5 parts (Pas de Calais, Nord, Somme, Oise, and Aisne) bound in one, octavo sized ( c .208 × 154 mm), triple hole-punched and laced with a metal-ended single orange treasury tag into the official issue waterproofed brown canvas binder, spine lettered in black, flexible boards with relevant coloured map sections mounted front and back, extensive fold- out flaps to boards with key information; signs for town plans, abbreviations used in the text, French road signs, local currency, conversion tables and a simple guide to French regional administration, and a wipe-clean blank for note-taking in chinagraph pencil. Profusely illustrated with maps and plans throughout, many full-page, together with numerous tables. A little loss of paper from covers, scattered light foxing and dust marking. A very good copy. ¶ Ann Lendrum, “Remembering J. L. Austin”, in J. L. Austin on Language , 2014; G. J. Warnock, “John Langshaw Austin: A Biographical Sketch”, Symposium on J. L. Austin , 1969. £1,250 [153116] 52 DERRIDA, Jacques (trans.); HUSSERL, Edmund. L’origine de la géométrie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962 his first work, inscribed to colleagues First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in blue ink on the half-title to the French academics Claire Bazin and Jean-Jacques Lecercle:
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as author of The Violence of Language (1990). Educated at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where Derrida studied from 1951 and then taught as maître- assistant from 1964 to 1984, Lecercle has taught most of his working life at the Paris Nanterre University. He supervised Bazin’s doctoral thesis, “Des Brontë à Janet Frame”, at Nanterre in 1995. Bazin later became Professor of English and Commonwealth Literatures, also at Nanterre. She has published on Charlotte Brontë, Janet Frame, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula . Lecercle provided the preface to Bazin’s 2012 work with Guyonne Leduc, Littérature anglo-saxonne au féminin , and they were co-supervisors of the thesis “L’esthétique du jeu dans les Alice de Lewis Carroll” by Virginie Iché (2011). Octavo. Original printed wrappers, untrimmed. With glassine jacket. Faint red mark to lower edge of front cover, a couple of small, neat pencil emendations to text, patch of light discolouration to paper stock of pp. 57–68. A near-fine copy. £2,000 [152502]
“Pour Claire et pour Jean-Jacques, ces pages qui furent d’emblie, pour eux, des épreuves; ne leur rappelant que d’avoir été d’abord de cité ou cette introduction fut éscrite leur crée une obligation d’indulgence. Ma vieille amité et mon affectueuse gratitude, J. Derrida”. Derrida’s translation of Husserl’s essay Origin of Geometry was his first published work, and is preceded by his lengthy introductory text which comprises the majority of the book. This introduction launched Derrida’s philosophical career, winning the prestigious Cavaillès Prize in 1962 and anticipating many of the themes that would define his work, including the logic of the supplement, the trace, and différance , setting in motion Derrida’s deconstruction of Western metaphysics: what Nietzsche had described as “Platonism” and Heidegger as a “metaphysics of presence”. Derrida pursued his reading of Husserl in La voix et le phénomène (1967), widely considered one of his most important philosophical works, and Le problème de la genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl , his Masters thesis, written during his stay at the Archives Husserl de Louvain in 1953–4 but not published until 1990. Jean-Jacques Lecercle (b. 1946) is known for his work on the philosophy of language, most notably
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