[023141] Nietzsche, Friedrich. MENSCHLICHES, ALZUMENSCHLICHES, Ein Buch Fur Freie Geister, Zweiter Band. . Leipzig: Naumann, 1894. 2nd Edition. With second title: Nietzsche's Werke, Vierter Band. (2), 379, (4=advertisements). Original halfcalf with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, boards decorated in a nice pattern of the time in brown and yellow, decoration of endpapers identical, edges stained in matching brown decoration all around. Sticker of Buchbinderei Huebel & Denck, Leipzig at ffep (book 23140 is Menschliches I, also with a Gregori bookplate but without HD label. Strange, as Gregori evidently purchsed those and some other FN titles all in 1895. Some very minor edgewear all around, spine undamaged however, and minor even browning inside. Name of early first owner (Ferdinand Gregori, 1895) on title and his bookplate and a small other name on fpep. Gregori (1870-1928) was connected to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. This is one of the 4 completed volumes of the first version of the completed works (planned at 9 volumes). An advertisement of Naumann (see Hoffmann p749) states, that this volume was published on 15/8/1893. The Auflagenbuch (in which the Nietzsche-Archiv recorded all editions) states, that printing of 1000 copies of the 2nd and 1000 of the 3rd was finished on 14/7/1893. Editor Peter Gast was fired however in October 1893 (Hoffmann p13) after EFN had returned from Paraguay. Shortly thereafter Koegel started the preparation of the second version of the completed works. The new edition (4th and 5th) of Menschliches II was finished on 24/12/1894 (Auflagenbuch). The date in this copy exceeds this. In the Auflagenbuch a note can be found, that "Von obigen beiden Auflagen ging ein grosser Theil zu Weisenfels zum einstampfen." Beiden Auflagen are the 2nd and 3rd. The quite evident purchase date of this copy shows that destruction has been postponed well after a new edition was available. Publishers, as I know them, only throw away a book in last resort.