22.5 x 16.5cm, 44pp plus card covers. First edition thus - a collection of Benjamin's writings on children and play translated into Dutch along with comment by Asja Lazis taken from a socialist perspective. A key figure in the Frankfurt School of Marxism, Benjamin wrote on a wide range of topics - his theories of art criticism after the emergence of mechanical reproductivity being the best known of his works - but he also wrote extensively on the activities of children and gave entertaining lectures on radio for younger people that covered a wide range of philosophical topics in the guise of stories. This is an Dutch translation of some of those works and theories. VG+. Scarce.

17.8 x 11cm, 222pp. One photo-portrait of the author and facsimile manuscript page. Printed wrappers. First edition of Benjamin's diary of his journey to the USSR in 1926. A fine copy.

17.8 x 11cm, 136pp. Wrappers. Second issue of Benjamin's influential cross-disciplinary theoretical work. A fine copy in dustwrapper with minor soiling, else very good.

56 x 39cm, 8pp, large format gallery journal - the second issued. Full page and smaller articles on gallery artists and pageworks including Jochen Gerz, Mario Terzic, a double page feature on historic and contemporary photography with Arnulf Rainer, Man Ray, Herbet Bayer, Gerhard Richter and Jon Heartfeld and a long critical text by Walter Benjamin "Der Kustwek im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkett" (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ) originally published in 1935. Heavily folded for storage, and some diagonal creases on most pages. Mostly VG.