The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality Volume One
by Oswald Spengler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/no dj
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. New and revised edition, October, 1928. 1st prntng of this edition.. Hardcover. VG/no dj. 9 3/4 x 6 7/8. Translated with notes by Charles Francis Atkinson. Black boards w/ gilt lettering on spine & fc, red te, pubs' colophon blind-stamped on lower bc. 428 pp + 3 pull-out tables (all intact) + index. Original bookseller's sm label on pde (""From the books of J.W. Robinson Co., Eleventh & Grand, Los Angeles, $7.50), . Gilt on spine faded, gilt on fc clear and sharp; spine ends & bottom corners lightly bumped; mild foxing on eps, cloth bookmark present but detached, prev owner's embossed initials on ffe. Otherwise,unmarked, clean, solid, tight. For a 95-yr old book, VG.
Synopsis
Oswald Spengler, one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century, was born in Blankenburg, Germany, in 1880. He studied mathematics, philosophy, and history in Munich and Berlin. Except for his doctor’s thesis on Heraclitus, he published nothing before the first volume of The Decline of the West, which appeared when he was thirty-eight. The Agadir crisis of 1911 provided the immediate incentive for his exhaustive investigations of the background and origins of our civilization. Spengler chose his main title in 1912, finished a draft of the first volume two years later, and published it in 1918. The second, concluding volume was published in 1922. The Decline of the West was first published in this country in 1926 (Vol. 1) and 1928 (Vol. 2); this abridged edition was first published here in 1962. For many years Spengler lived quietly in his home in Munich, thinking, writing, and pursuing his hobbies–collecting pictures and primitive weapons, listening to Beethoven quartets, and reading the comedies of Shakespeare and Molière. He took occasional trips to the Harz Mountains and to Italy. In 1936, three weeks before his fifty-sixth birthday, he died in Munich of a heart attack.
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- Bookseller
- North Shore Theory Co.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L210006
- Title
- The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality Volume One
- Author
- Oswald Spengler
- Illustrator
- Translated with notes by Charles Francis Atkinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- no dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New and revised edition, October, 1928. 1st prntng of this editi
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 9 3/4 x 6 7/8
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