Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978. 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.