Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

Benjamin, Walter; Edmund Jephcott (Translator) and Peter Demetz (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0151761892 / ISBN 13: 9780151761890

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1978

About this Item

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

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151761892
• ISBN 13: 9780151761890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time

Review

"There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time."
--George Steiner

"Benjamin is a legitimate ancestor of much that for the moment is most alive in criticism."
--The Nation

"This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions." - Time