A rare copy of Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard’s famed book, Either/Or, will be sold at auction later this year, a Copenhagen auction house said Tuesday.

The book, a second edition from 1849 dedicated to Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen, was offered to the Copenhagen-based Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art by an unidentified Danish family earlier this year.

“The family had no idea how important it was,” auctioneer Sebastian Hauge Lerche said. “He was the father of existentialism after all.”

Posted: 10|5|06 at 8:22 am. Filed under: Auction News.