Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Belknap/Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Paperback. First Paperback edition. "Prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolf Tiedemann." Translated by Eiland and McLaughlin. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. 1,073 pages.
Published by THE BELNAP PRESS HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS, 1999
ISBN 10: 067404326X ISBN 13: 9780674043268
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth quarter binding with electric blue titles to spine and blue paper covered boards, illustration to upper board. 260 x 170 mm approx. xiv + 1074 pp. Frontis - Passage Jouffroy + 41 other b/w illustrations - all as called for. First printing 1999 of a translation by Eiland and McLaughlin of the author's Das Passagen-Werk as edited by Rolf Tidemann. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book- negligible shelf wear to boards, no previous owner name or insc. Some pencil crosses to margins and very occassional marginalia also in pencil from a reading. Dust Jacket - moderate shelf rubbing- intact - UK distributor price sticker £24.95 to rear panel. No other notable defects to book or jacket). A very heavy tome and an additional charge will need be made for overseas shipping.
Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: New.
Published by Harvard University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New. pp. 1088.
Published by Harvard University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Condition: New. pp. 1088.
Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Belknap Pr, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1088 pages. 10.00x6.00x1.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by Belknap Pr, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1088 pages. 10.00x6.00x1.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by Harvard University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008022 ISBN 13: 9780674008021
Seller: Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Germany
Condition: New. pp. 1088.
Published by The Belknapp Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) & London (UK), 1999
ISBN 10: 067404326X ISBN 13: 9780674043268
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. META-CLASSIC: MONUMENTAL: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1999) Unstated First Printing, NEW handsomely-designed unpriced mylar-protected jacket, NEW cover w/ library-durable navy-blue fabric wrapping spine & extending 2.36" onto front & back panels covered in slate-blue paper w/ a portrait of Walter Benjamin printed blue-on-blue on front panel, STRIKING "electric-blue" card-stock end-papers, EXCELLENT unblemished smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Adobe Bethold Baskerville Book & Bodoni on 45-pound Glatfelter Offset Hi-Opaque paper * 6.86" x 10.18" x 2.12", 1.86 kg, xiv+1074 (1098) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 & still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German "Das Passagen-Werk") is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of 13 years: "the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles & all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, & reflections on, 100s of published sources, arranging them in 36 categories w/ descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," & "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things--a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. "The Arcades Project" is Benjamin's effort to represent & to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th-century history, &, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street & interior merge & historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions & displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Quite simply, 'The Arcades Project' is one of the 20th-century's greatest efforts of historical comprehension, even in its fragmentary form. And the fragmentary form is in any case not untrue to Benjamin's over-all intentions. The book would surely have remained a palimpsest of quotations, for reasons Benjamin several times explains in his writings: the palimpsest is Benjamin's form, his own eccentric effort at totalization." -T.J. Clark, author of "Farewell to an Idea" * "More than half a century after it was composed, Walter Benjamin's fragmentary 'Arcades Project' still surpasses all other historiographic projects on the 19th-century & its capital, Paris. 'The Arcades Project' remains unequaled in the wealth of perspectives it offers, & no other study has come close to its methodological inventiveness or so exemplarily met its demand that history writing be reinvented for every topic & on every occasion. Benjamin's work is the most advanced, most complex, & most comprehensive study of the dominant motifs of the 19th century--motifs that continue to be critically important for us today." -Werner Hamacher, author of 'Premises' * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & due to its weight to international destinations via postal-regulation-mandated USPS INTERNATIONAL PRIORITY AIRMAIL at nation-by-nation rates available on request.
Published by Harvard University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 067404326X ISBN 13: 9780674043268
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First US Edition. Harvard University Press, 1999; no additional printings indicated; xiv, 1073pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards in VG condition, blue foil titling remains bright and bold; text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket in VG+ condition, arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Not available for domestic priority/expedited shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Published by Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 067404326X ISBN 13: 9780674043268
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1073 pages. Published in 1999. The author's unfinished master project. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of Harvard University's Complete Works of Walter Benjamin. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Walter Benjamin's "Das Passagen-Werk" in a felicitous English translation. The definitive critical study of the 19th century, "the greatest modern effort at historical comprehension", and at 1073 pages, still an unfinished masterwork. "Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, 'The Arcades Project' is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years: 'the theater of all my struggles and all my ideas'. Focussing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris - glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism - Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as Fashion, Boredom, Dream City, Photography, Catacombs, Advertising, Prostitution, Baudelaire, and Theory of Progress" (Publisher's blurb). The genius - and achievement - of the book lies in Benjamin's prescient identification of the Paris Arcades (thereby superseding Baudelaire) as THE microcosm of our modern, contemporary life. That is to say, the life we are living today, both "micro", and through the so-called global economy, "macro". About his extreme, ambitious project, this is what the author himself had to say: "To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives" (Walter Benjamin). Walter Benjamin's personal heroism wasn't just some egotistical idea he had about himself. He lived and then died as a hero: He committed suicide on September 26, 1940 at the French-Spanish border while trying to escape the Nazis with a group of fellow Jews. They were all arrested by the Spanish police (Franco was one of Hitler's closest allies). Moved and humbled by his desperate yet principled stand, the Spanish police, defying Franco's orders, allowed his fellow Jews to escape. An absolute "must-have" title for Walter Benjamin collectors. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online are ALL subsequent printings or have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. The greatest literary/cultural critic of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WALTER BENJAMIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 067404326X. no.