The Temptation to Exist

New York: Seaver Books, 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Richard Howard. Introduction by Susan Sontag. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($17.95), yellowed at the flaps. Quarter blue cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A new edition of Cioran's underground classic about Western civilization, literature, and philosophy.