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Published by Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 1995
ISBN 10: 0471957992ISBN 13: 9780471957997
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by Oxford University Press, 1999
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Inscribed and Signed by the author. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1977
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original black cloth. This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket with a small, faint scratch on the front cover. Nice copy ideal for a gift.
Published by Putnam,, London,, 1942
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 271. Original publisher's off white textured cloth, lettered red on spine and front cover. Very good indeed. with clean text. No inscriptions. A great influence on George Orwell who wrote an important book on James Burnham.
Published by John Day, 1941
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; Eleventh Printing. ; Charcoal cloth cover has a 1/4" spot on front cover otherwise clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Page edges soiled and foxed. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket is soiled with a chip and tear to the spine panel and small chip along top edge of front panel but overall in good condition. Publisher's price of $2.50 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ).
Published by Putnam, 1942
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Very scarce. An influence on George Orwell in the 1940s. The book is VG with 1942 previous owner name and date to ffep and a hint of spotting to page edges. The jacket is Good overall, unclipped with some browning to spine and one stain to spine at top third.
Published by Putnam, London, 1942
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Putnam, London in 1942. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Original publisher's cloth with red lettering. Some light pushing to the upper spine and upper corners. Light spotting to the text block and the cloth with a hint of toning to the edges. A neat previous owner's details to the upper blank front end-paper. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ condition. A little loss at the spine ends and corners. Some toning to the spine and edges. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. James Burnham's (1905-1987) seminal work in which he argues that capitalism will be displaced by a form of global managerialism and, as a result, bureaucratic elites will supplant workers and capitalists at the apex of power. Prior to publishing The Managerial Revolution Burnham was a prominent Trotskyist, but he would resign from the Workers Party in 1940 and thereafter become an influential theorist in the post-war American conservative movement. Shortly after the outbreak of the European phase of World War II, Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution to explain the major world powers' movement toward a common destination-rule by an administrative elite. This work offers an important view into Burnham's early social and political thought during his 'Machiavellian years,' which was influenced by elite theorists such as Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Robert Michels. Two years later Burnham published 'The Machiavellians' wherein he articulated his 'science of power' to analyse exercises of political power. For Burnham, like Machiavelli, Pareto, Mosca, and Michels, the primary importance of political power is not its justification, but how political forces pursue, attain, use, and forfeit it. Burnham's tight prose and sobering analysis are on full display in this seminal work of modern elite theory by one of America's most influential conservative scholars. The Managerial Revolution would greatly influence modern conservative thought, and its publication inaugurated a Machiavellian revival on the Right. George Orwell wrote an article James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution which was published by the Socialist Book Centre in 1946. Orwell's essay on James Burnham, tentatively rejects Burnham's prediction of a future dominated by undemocratic technocratic super-states. Very scarce with the wrapper. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Published by The John Day Company - New York, 1941
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original orange cloth boards with black titling and design on spine. Book is Near Fine, tight and square with only blemish being the prior owners name lightly written in ink on inside of front cover. The striking Dust Jacket is Very Good or better - only flaws being very small hole on back, a 1/8" tear at top of front, and a crudely done, torn, price clipping on inside flap. Colors are bright with very little if any fading. Very rare book, particularly in this condition with the Dust Jacket. First Edition/3rd Printing.
Published by The John Day Company, New York, 1941
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition of Burnham's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Some dampstaining to a few pages, very good in the rare original dust jacket with a chip to the crown of the spine. Burnham's seminal work, The Managerial Revolution, attempted to theorize about the future of world capitalism based upon observations of its development in the interwar period. Burnham argued three possible futures for capitalism: (1) that capitalism was a permanent form of social and economic organization and that it would be continued for a protracted period of time; (2) that capitalism was a temporary form of organization destined by its nature to collapse and be replaced by socialism; (3) that capitalism was a temporary form of organization currently being transformed into some non-socialist future form of society. Burnham argued that since capitalism had a more or less definite beginning, which he dated to approximately the 14th Century, it could not be regarded as an immutable and permanent form. Moreover, Burnham observed that in the last years of previous forms of economic organization, such as those of Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, mass unemployment was "a symptom that a given type of social organization is just about finished." The worldwide mass unemployment of the depression era was, for Burnham, indicative that capitalism was itself "not going to continue much longer.".
Published by The John Day Company, 1941
Seller: Respublica Books LLC, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. James Burnham's (1905-1987) seminal work in which he argues that capitalism will be displaced by a form of global managerialism and, as a result, bureaucratic elites will supplant workers and capitalists at the apex of power. Prior to publishing The Managerial Revolution Burnham was a prominent Trotskyist, but he would resign from the Workers Party in 1940 and thereafter become an influential theorist in the post-war American conservative movement. Shortly after the outbreak of the European phase of World War II, Burnham wrote The Managerial Revolution to explain the major world powers' movement toward a common destination-rule by an administrative elite. This work offers an important view into Burnham's early social and political thought during his "Machiavellian years," which was influenced by elite theorists such as Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Robert Michels. Two years later Burnham published The Machiavellians (also by The John Day Company) wherein he articulated his "science of power" to analyze exercises of political power. For Burnham-like Machiavelli, Pareto, Mosca, and Michels-the primary importance of political power is not its justification, but how political forces pursue, attain, use, and forfeit it. Burnham's tight prose and sobering analysis are on full display in this seminal work of modern elite theory by one of America's most influential conservative scholars. The Managerial Revolution would greatly influence modern conservative thought, and its publication inaugurated a Machiavellian revival on the Right. Burnham's prescient analysis can be observed in the works of other modern elite theorists today, including Sam Francis's magnum opus Leviathan & Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America (2016). The Managerial Revolution remains a foundational work in the Machiavellian canon. First printings are exceedingly scarce in this condition. Octavo. Original orange cloth in the scarce and well-preserved original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Chip to head and base of spine; one-inch closed tear to head of front panel; small scuff to rear panel. Exceptional first printing of Burnham's groundbreaking work in an uncommonly bright dust jacket. Fine in a very good-plus dust jacket.