walter benjamin peter demetz edmund (6 résultats)

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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.

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : 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.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Some toning to the board edges, overall Near Fine in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket with a diagonal crease to the rear flap.

First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xliii,348pp. A distinguished copy, from the library of noted poet-translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover and occasional pencil marginalia (easily erasable, but why would you?). A tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $12.95 on front flap), slightly sunned on spine panel and with mild creases at corners; Near Fine. Very nice copy of this important collection of Benjamin's shorter work which, together with its "sister" collection Illuminations, published a decade earlier, introduced Benjamin to an English-language audience. Includes a substantial critical essay by the editor Peter Demetz.