Parsons prof frank (4 Ergebnisse)

viii, 364 [2, ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Ink ownership signature at head of title page; slight rubbing to cloth at edges; tight and sound.

Stated Revision edition. Original gray blind-stamped cloth, top edge gray. 8vo. pp. [4] blank, (9), 14-87, [5] blank. Very Good/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. Two faint library stamps and dulled spine print only flaws; tightly bound.

First edition. Stapled, grey wrappers letterpressed in black, 16 pp. An uncommon Kerr title authored by the professor and social reformer, Frank Parsons, who argues that humankind's development in the eighteenth century was material, in the nineteenth intellectual, and that in the twentieth it will be spiritual. The success of this development will be in discovering "how to make everybody comfortable, well off, intelligent and virtuous." Some sunning to wrapper edges, one small grease spot to the rear wrapper bottom edge, but Near Fine. Only two copies located in WorldCat institutions (NYU & Univ. of Wisconsin).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Professor Frank Parson"s illustrated and informative history of New Zealand. The first edition of this work. Inscribed to the front free endpaper "To the Editor of The Manchester Guardian with the compliments of the author". At this point in time, the editor of that newspaper was British journalist, publisher and politician C. P. Scott. Illustrated with two frontispiece maps, and with vignette and full page illustrations throughout. A fascinating history of New Zealand from American professor, social reformer, and public intellectual Frank Parsons, in which he emphasises discussion of the industrial evolution of the islands, and its social developments. With Hackney Public Libraries stamps to the front free endpaper.A fascinating narrative of New Zealand history. In the publisher"s original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with a touch of fading towards head of front board. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Inscription and stamps to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with only the odd handling mark. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…