Weininger Otto - Gender and Character. A fundamental partition, translated by Ostap Ortwin. [1st ed., 1911].

Otto Weininger, Gender and Character. The essential partition, translated by Ostap Ortwin.
Łódź, MCMXI (1911).; Published by Ludwik Fiszer, Łódź, Warsaw, Lviv - H. Altenberg's Bookstore.; Printed by the National Printing House in Cracow.
Publisher's booklet cover, pp. XX, 463, format 24.5 x 16.5 cm.

Poor condition: block cracked, in several parts, cover loose, spine with paper loss, but the title is preserved, covers heavily soiled, with dampstains and stains, several pages glued with adhesive tape to the spine, pp. 1-2 (title page of the first part) - was glued with tape in its entirety, heavily yellowed, creased, with annotation in crayon (of the book's title), pages inside fairly clean (more soiled exterior of various "blocks"), few soils and stains.

Handwritten ownership notations in pen on the pre-title and title page, in a nice font: from Addi in Genoai 1911 and J. Garlinski (?).
Popular in its time, in bohemian circles, the work of Otto Weininger (1880-1903), lived to see numerous editions in the early 20th century. The author committed suicide shortly after the book was published (in 1903), in a room specially rented for the purpose, where Beethoven died.
He posited the thesis that every human being has a male element in him (he associated it with culture, logic, morality) and a female element (the source of vanity, sexual promiscuity, among other things) .
Infrequent, first Polish edition.