Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1961, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, collection of 14 essays by various contributors, INSCRIBED BY HADLEY CANTRIL, a contributing scholar, design embossed on front cover, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket. Wear to edges of dust jacket, overall, a clean, tight copy. Record # 803065
Softcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Volume II only. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 610744
Hardcover. NY, Weatherhill, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear and rubbing, but is still in good condition overall. Gray paper cover boards with a black cloth spine are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book compares and contrasts the Japanese and the Jews with keen critical insight tempered by affection. While drawing freely from personal experiences, literature and popular sources, he also turns to such traditional materials as medieval Japanese social and legal documents, the Talmud, and the Torah in his search for the forces that have shaped the Japanese and the Jew as we know them today. Some of the previous owner's notes and musings are present in black pen on the rear end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34507
Softcover. Berkeley, CA, The University of California Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary critic. This book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Clean copy. Record # 34191
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Light creasing to several pages, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 340 pages. Record # 467517 Record # 467517
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on front and rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468269
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