Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography [VINTAGE 1949]

Very good condition beige cloth boards with black spine lettering contained in a good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Epilogue and Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings. Translated by C.T. Campion. General jacket rubbing and spine edge chips, evidence of light dampstain which somewhat bled onto the lower spine area boards . The upper one inch section of the blank first free front endpaper is neatly cut, possibly to remove a former owner name, yet a former owner signature is contained on the blank rear endpaper. (see photographs). All pages are otherwise in fine unmarked condition and the spine exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "This is the remarkable life-story of one of the world's truly great men. Already famous at the age of thirty as musician, philosopher, and theologian, Albert Schweitzer decided to become a doctor and to devote his life healing the sick and suffering among native African tribes. He abandoned a brilliant career in Europe to found a hospital in Lambarene at the edge of the primeval jungle. He has not only labored at his self-sacrificing task, but he has continued with his other interests as well -- keeping up his organ technique on a specially equipped piano; writing a series of deeply perceptive books; giving lectures and recitals all over Europe to raise funds for his hospital. Of Albert Schweitzer's autobiography Karl Reiland, Rector Emeritus of St. George's Church, New York, has said: "You cannot read it without being fascinated. and becoming an admirer of the man . You will find Albert Schweitzer the university professor and lecturer; the musician, playing organ recitals in London and Paris and Berlin; the doctor among his patients in Strasbourg and Africa; the preacher and pastor; the author, writing epoch-making books on Jesus and Paul, on philosophy, on Johann Sebastian Bach and his music; the expert on organ construction; the authority on comparative religions. was there ever such a capable, versatile, ubiquitous, and altogether human and companionable giant among men? Yet how humble and with what a sense of humor!" -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Rarely does a man who writes an autobiography succeed in giving so much of himself as Schweitzer has here. The simplicity of the writing reflects the simplicity of the man; the range of topics treated reflects the range of his mind; the record of events reflects his incredible vigor and his capacity to accomplish the seemingly impossible . The closing epilogue deserves to stand by itself as one of the greatest expressions of a living faith that the modern ordeal has produced." -- Paul Hutchinson in The Christian Century. "Out of My Life and Thought reveals a life both rich with deeds and thought, lived unselfishly. Many will discover the book to be inspiring reading." -- Harry Hansen in the New York World-Telegram. "His story has something of the aspect of a miracle, and his achievements a quality of almost epic worth." -- John Haynes Holmes in the New York Herald Tribune. " Musician, philosopher, theologiian, doctor of medicine -- any one of these careers suffices ordinarily for one man. To find them united in one man stamps that man, therefore, as a most unusual person whose psychology, more probably than what the man himself may have accomplished, presents a study of infinite vistas." - The New York Times. ABOUT THE BOOK: Out of My Life and Thought was first published in 1933. It was at once recognized as an inspiring autobiography, but it has only recently begun to reach the wide popular audience which it so richly deserves. The present volume has been completely redesigned and reset; the translation has been partially revised; and a postscript by Everett Skillings, close friend of Dr. Schweitzer and chairman of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, has been added to bring Schweitzer's story up to date." -- from the inner rear jacket flap.…