Another find from the
Housing Works sale: a first edition (tho' slightly banged up) of
My Sister and I, the infamous forgery of Nietzsche's late-life diaries, which purported to support theories of the philosopher's incestuous relationship with said sibling. See a bit by philosopher Dennis Dutton on the
kerfluffle.

But lo! What is this? Seems the book used to belong to renegade sociologist Ned Polsky, the author of counterculture classic
Hustlers, Beats and Others. Did he pencil this annotation?

"$am Roth" refers to booklegger
Samuel Roth, who famously
pirated Ulysses in the US while it was still contraband. Roth, who was Jewish, also penned
Jews Must Live, an anti-Semitic tract that, if
googled, will today lead you to any number of white power websites, where it lives on in digitized samizdat, polluting a new generation of wingnutten sheissekopfs.
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