albert whitehouse (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Albert Orbaan (illustrator). BCE. In Brodart cover. Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Albert Orbaan (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good condition hardback and DJ price clipped. 191 pages good and clean with clear larger print. Feint minor spots of foxing on top edge of pages. No previous names, 'On a blustering December day less than fifty years ago a little knot of shivering coastguards watched Wilbur and Orville Wright fly their rickety aeroplane 120 feet across the sands at Kitty Hawk. Today from bustling airports thousands of aircraft take off, many on long flights across high mountains and broad oceans. Many black and white illustrations throughout the book.

First Edition. Staple bound pamphlet. Slim octavo (9" x 4"); printed glossy paper wrappers; 16pp. Clean and free of significant wear; Near Fine. Transcript of Whitehouse's speech to Harvard MBA candidates, a surprisingly strident attack (given the audience) against big business, conformity, and the society's loss of cohesion in the post-War era. ".It is time to take up the cudgels against the present dead level of conformity and for plain old-fashioned decency. The American people need once more to understand that righteous wrath is not only permissible but desirable. America needs, above all, fewer pitchmen and more angry men.".