NY: Knopf, 1962. Black cloth & mottled red cloth back.. Ex-library: Light cover edge rubbing and very light edge soil: VG+/no dj.. 8vo. First American (1 vol) Edition so stated. Abridged by Helmut Werner. English abridged edition by Arthur Helps, from the Charles Francis Atkinson translation.

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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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Seller: The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 30011420
Title: The Decline of the West
Author: Spengler, Oswald
Format/Binding: Black cloth & mottled red cloth back.
Book Condition: Used - Ex-library: Light cover edge rubbing and very light edge soil: VG+/no dj.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1962
Pages: 415pp. + index (abridged 1 vol edition)
Size: 8vo
Keywords: European History, Philosophy of History, Cultural History, Political Philosophy

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