Of Human Freedom

Barzun, Jacques

Verlag: Little, Brown, and Company - Boston, 1939

Beschreibung

Cream cloth on boards with dark blue lettering on front and spine. Front and spine have series of horizontal bands blindstamped - on front they go down the entire outer edge of board. Really attractive book design. Unclipped Dust Jacket is bright red with white designed borders around front and white and dark blue titling on front and spine. Only minimal scuffing and shelfwear to bottom and top of spine. Only tear is to inside front flap and appears to have been professionally repaired at some point. Shows original price of $2.50. Book is tight, square and sharp cornered but does prior owners signature on inside front cover and underlining on pages 18-40. Jacket drawing by Herman E. Dean. From the back cover: "Discussing, among other things: - Totalitarian art; "Crazy" modernism; The Liberal Tradition and decadence; Proletarian art; The Revolutionary idea; Art as a weapon; Democracy and mediocrity; The art that pays; Is civilization a neurosis?; Escapism; Freud and the retreat from reason; Blood and soil; The Aryan soul; The Genius of the race; Absolute truth; Scientific history; Help from the laboratory; The Tyranny of words; the Decay of imagination; Power of propaganda and its antidote; The American school; Progressive education in democracy; The Chicago plan and the humanities; Good government: fact or fiction; Anarchy and democracy; A native American philosophy. Is that enough?? Great copy in Very Good or better condition with Very Good DJ of this Rare book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers blb02411

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Of Human Freedom

Verlag: Little, Brown, and Company - Boston

Erscheinungsdatum: 1939

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition