8vo, beige buckram cloth, silver titles, 154pp. Stated second printing, 1946. Boards moderately rubbed, fading to corners, ownership signature to front endpaper, a few very faint pencil markings to text. Binding firm and square. An early printing of Kierkegaard's study of dread, under the pen name Vigilius Haufniensis and subtitled "a simple psychological deliberation oriented in the direction of the dogmatic problem of original sin." One of his earliest written works, translated with notes by Walter Lowrie. A nice copy sans dust jacket.