Stuart Chase Foreword (9 results)

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint. New York, NY: The Modern Library Random House. Very Good/Very Good. 1934. Reprint. Hardcover w/DJ. 12mo., 404pp, Dust jacket has wear to edges and corners; otherwise in Very Good condition. Cover has wear to edges and corners; otherwise in Very Good condition. Some pages are slightly bent in top corner; Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Printed in the U.S.A. [Date from the copyright page.] First Printing. Frontispiece, Foreword, Introduction, Footnotes, 17 Figures (include one black-and-white plate from the Codex Tro-Cortesianus), Bibliography, Index; xi, 278 pages. The original green cloth is very good, with touches of rubbing to spine ends and corners tips; yellow and white lettering is bright on the spine and upper board. The interior is creamy-bright, despite pale toning to the endpapers; HOWEVER, please note: my father who taught philosophy for nearly half a century left penciling throughout---heavy on a dozen pages, absent on perhaps two hundred. The unclipped dust jacket has several tears and chips and a sunned spine; all lettering still legible. [Please see my 9 images of the actual book.] "I find it gratuitous to assume that a Hopi who knows only the Hopi language and the cultural ideas of his own society has the same notions, often supposed to be intuitions, of time and space that we have, and that are generally assumed to be universal. . . ." (Page 57) As with every book from my father's collection, tipped-in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly with tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + DJ. Reprint. Xv, 404 Pp + Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Published In 1934 With This New Foreword By Stuart Chase; 242 Titles On Dj, Thus This Printing Issued In 1946. Book With No Wear, Gilt Brilliant Except Last Four Words In Title Which Have Oxidized But Are Not Worn. Dj With Standard 95 Cent Price On Rear Panel, With Light Browning, Unclipped. 1/2" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Minute Losses At Corners. Exceptionally Well Preserved. Per Wikipedia, Stuart Chase (1888 - 1985) Was An American Economist, Social Theorist, And Writer. His Writings Covered Topics As Diverse As General Semantics And Physical Economy. His Thought Was Shaped By Henry George (1839-1897), By Economic Philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), By Fabian Socialism, And Briefly By The Communist Social And Educational Experiments In The Soviet Union To Around 1930, Though Chase Was Broadly A Modern American Liberal. Chase Spent His Early Political Career Supporting "A Wide Range Of Reform Causes: The Single Tax, Women's Suffrage, Birth Control And Socialism." Chase's Early Books, The Tragedy Of Waste (1925) And Your Money's Worth (1927), Were Notable For Their Criticism Of Corporate Advertising And Their Advocacy Of Consumer Protection. In 1929 Chase Co-Founded Consumers' Research, A Consumer Protection Advocacy Organization. In 1932, Chase Wrote A New Deal, Which Became Identified With The Economic Programs Of American President Franklin Roosevelt. He Also Wrote A Cover Story In The New Republic, "A New Deal For America", Which Appeared Days Before Roosevelt Promised "A New Deal" In His Speech Accepting The Presidential Nomination Of The Democratic Party. Whether Roosevelt Speechwriter Samuel Rosenman Got The Phrase From Chase Is Unknown. Chase's 1938 Book The Tyranny Of Words Was An Early And Influential Popularization Of Alfred Korzybski's Theory Of General Semantics.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Paperback 2011. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref N14. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Edited and Introduced by John B. Carroll. ISBN: 1614270724.

Paperback. Condition: Good Plus. 5th Paperback Printing. PAPERBACK 1970. xi+278 pages. Spine is creased. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref DFLK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A NF 8vo hardcover in a VG- dust jacket. No edition, printing, or print code stated in the book itself but also no obvious book club markings. The bottom of the front flap of the dust jacket does have the markings 'No. 0033A' and '01260' while the bottom of the rear flap is marked 'No. 0033B'. Aside from a dog-eared page, the contents are Fine. Fine orange cloth boards with silver spine lettering and a silver publisher's logo in the lower corner of the upper board. The off-white dust jacket is not price clipped ($4.50) but does have edge wear including small chips, tears and related creases. No ex-library markings!

Blue-grey Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. First Edition, First Printing. 258 Pp.Blue-Grey Cloth. 1947 Date On Title ;Page. Lightly Used, No Fraying, Hinges Tight, No Names Or Marks. Dj Priced $3.40, Edge Wear, Small/Tiny Loses At Corners, Spine Background A Little Faded, Not Price-Clipped. "How The Forces Of Technology Will Bring Good Fresh Food To Americans And Take Malnutrition Out Of American History". Right. Let's See , Is Fresh Food, Or Over-Processed Food, The Economic Driver Of The Food Industry? More Sugar And Salt, Anyone? Per Wikipedia, Stuart Chase (1888 - 1985) Was An American Economist, Social Theorist, And Writer. His Writings Covered Topics As Diverse As General Semantics And Physical Economy. His Thought Was Shaped By Henry George (1839-1897), By Economic Philosopher Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), By Fabian Socialism, And Briefly By The Communist Social And Educational Experiments In The Soviet Union To Around 1930, Though Chase Was Broadly A Modern American Liberal. Chase Spent His Early Political Career Supporting "A Wide Range Of Reform Causes: The Single Tax, Women's Suffrage, Birth Control And Socialism." Chase's Early Books, The Tragedy Of Waste (1925) And Your Money's Worth (1927), Were Notable For Their Criticism Of Corporate Advertising And Their Advocacy Of Consumer Protection. In 1929 Chase Co-Founded Consumers' Research, A Consumer Protection Advocacy Organization. In 1932, Chase Wrote A New Deal, Which Became Identified With The Economic Programs Of American President Franklin Roosevelt. He Also Wrote A Cover Story In The New Republic, "A New Deal For America", Which Appeared Days Before Roosevelt Promised "A New Deal" In His Speech Accepting The Presidential Nomination Of The Democratic Party. Whether Roosevelt Speechwriter Samuel Rosenman Got The Phrase From Chase Is Unknown. Chase's 1938 Book The Tyranny Of Words Was An Early And Influential Popularization Of Alfred Korzybski's Theory Of General Semantics.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTORE, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. RARE SURVIVING BOOK: Has blue balloon cloth with very faded spine; gold torchbearer on front; blue tinted top edge; pages clean. DJ unclipped, 95 cents a copy; covered in mylar; has a tear. SUMMARY: (Still Very Relevant in the 21st Century) Veblen asserts that the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society, while it is the middle class and the working class who are usefully employed in the industrialised, productive occupations that support the whole of society.

Paperback. Condition: As New.