Selected Writings: Volume 3, 1935–1938

First edition in English. Pp. [vi], 462. 11 b/w illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards, stamped in silver and blue foil to spine; black end papers.

Third volume of four in the set. Of the twenty-seven pieces collected here, nineteen have never before been translated. The centrepiece, "A Berlin Childhood around 1900", marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable is the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility", with its striking insights into the relations between technology and aesthetics.