First edition. Small 8vo. 399, [1] pp. Original cloth, spine lettered and ruled in black, dust jacket (faint spotting to edges of text block, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; some light shelf wear to extremities of jacket, faint spotting to turn-in folds, otherwise a near fine copy). Chicago, Illinois; Henry Regnery Company, 1949.
The first presentation of Heidegger’s philosophy in the English language, a collection containing a substantial introduction to Heidegger’s thought by Werner Brock along with translations into English of four important essays by Heidegger, including the seminal ‘What is Metaphysics?’. The first English translation of Being and Time would not be published until 1962.
