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"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time."
--George Steiner
Walter Benjamin is recognized as one of the most acute analysts of literary and sociological phenomenon of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He died in 1940.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition stated with correct letter sequence. In beige boards and green spine cloth with copper foil to type. Corners dinged/split. Front hinge separating at title page, but still solid. May have had glue repair to half-title page preceding. Small bookstore sticker to rear pastedown, otherwise clean. Jacket is unclipped ($12.95) with larger chip to top of spine at front panel with some rubbing underneath and smaller chip at heel of spine. Wear/nicks to spine ends and corners and light fading to spine. 1st Printing. Seller Inventory # LPB009151WB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1978. Octavo. Hardcover in a dust jacket. First edition, second printing. Quarter cloth covered boards with bronze lettering along the spine. Bump to the crown of the spine and ever so slight rubbing to the bottom edge of the boards. Gutter is exposed between the last free end paper and the remainder of the text block but the binding remains strong. Unclipped jacket has minor edge wear and minor soiling to the back cover. Book and unclipped jacket are in very good condition. Seller Inventory # 001967
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Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
first thus, 1978. translated by edmund jephcott. companion volume to the first collection of benjamin's writing, "illuminations." "here benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with bertolt brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including moscow under stalin. benjamin moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century." new york: harcourt brace jovanovich. isbn: 0-15-176189-2. 348 pages. 6x8.75". hardcover. bound in partial-cloth covered boards. book condition: bumping to head and foot of spine, mild soiling to edges, splitting to gutter between 70-71, good++. jacket condition: bumping to head and foot of spine, closed-tear to front panel, very good+. Seller Inventory # 1101
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978; stated first edition, with full letter line; xliii, 348pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; slight discoloration along top edge of speckled tan over green quarter-cloth boards, else very good; copper titling remains bright and bold. Light toning to spine of unclipped dust jacket, which nonetheless remains intact and handsome with no chips or tears. Small (about 1/4" diameter) stain to text block fore-edge, interior unaffected and free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seller Inventory # 326240
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