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The Closing of the American Mind
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0671479903ISBN 13: 9780671479909
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Sixth Printing. Boards sunned one dges, tape marks, cloth spinecover lightly stained. Usual library/discard markings. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.
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Closing of the American Mind
Published by Simon & Schuster, 1988
ISBN 10: 0671657151ISBN 13: 9780671657154
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.
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The Closing of the American Mind.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987
First Edition Signed
First edition, early printing of Bloom's landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Richard A. Ware, One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully, Allan Bloom September, 1987." The recipient Richard A. Ware served under President Richard Nixon as acting assistant secretary of defense and who was later appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Board of Foreign Scholarships. He was later named president of the Earhart Foundation, which is an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship. It was founded in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Stamp of the Earhart Foundation on the front free endpaper crossed out, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Books signed by Bloom are rare. â The Closing of the American Mind is brilliant. . . . No other book combines such shrewd insights into our current state. . . . No other book is at once so lively and so deep, so witty and so thoughtful, so outrageous and so sensible, so amusing and so chilling. . . . An extraordinary bookâ (William Kristol The Wall Street Journal). Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923.
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The Closing of the American Mind
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0671479903ISBN 13: 9780671479909
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by Bloom on one of the front endpapers. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), some scratches and small stains on the surface. Quarter white buckram with green paper on the boards, bumped at the corners, faded at the edges. Square, front hinge loose presumably from being signed, firmly bound otherwise, some stains at the top edge, clean internally. A true first printing of Bloom's surprise best-selling novel that bemoans the loss of reason in favor of "creativity." A scarce first made scarcer by the inscription.
