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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 258pp, with occasional black and white drawings in text and a selection of musical examples. Jade cloth-covered boar with black lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth is faded, rubbed all round edges, corners, spine ends and joints, a little marked, with small crack and fraying at spine base. Text block edge slightly toned. Previous owner's stamped and school stamp on a toned front free endpaper. The first page of the contents is partially torn away from the gutter and as a result sits a little offset from the main text block edge. Some minor signs of handling and reading throughout. A now out of print and quite hard to find title.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Strongly bound, dark brown cloth boards with leather spine and corners. Gilt decorations and titles. Some rubbing to spine edges and corners with faded edges. A few watermarks to internal paste down edges. Illustrated throughout by various artists in black and white, colour frontispiece (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Vol. IV, No. 12. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers tanned with moderate wear and soil, a very good copy. A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing a "condensation" from Era Bell Thompsons's *American Daughter*, an important memoir of Black life in Iowa and North Dakota, later recognized for its excellence and republished in the Sixties. This issue also prints the recurring articles "How I Beat Jim Crow" and "If I Were an Negro," the former by Charles Clinton Spaulding (the longtime President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, at the time of publication the largest Black-owned business in America) and the latter by activist and author of *Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer* Saul Alinsky and further titled "Beware the Liberals." This issue also with a four-page insert bound in advertising the NEW *Negro Digest* in full color, as well as the articles "Who is a Negro? The Inside Story of Two Million Negroes Who Passed for White" by Herbert Asbury (condensed from *Collier's*); "A Southerner Looks at the South" by Hodding Carter (condensed from *The New York Times*); "Acid Test of America" by Clare Booth Luce (condensed from *Today's Woman*); "The Harlem Nobody Knows" by Bucklin Moon (condensed from *Glamour*); and the recurring article "My Favorite War Hero," this month penned by Herbert M. Frisby, who was a war correspondent for the *Baltimore Afro-American*. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon.…

Photography Paper. Zustand: Fine. Signed Portrait. Measures 8.5 x 12, printed on card stock. Photo studio label embossed along bottom edge. Notes in pencil on verso. Inscribed along the white matte: "To Hon. Wallace H. White Jr. / With Kind Regards of Herbert Hoover." Wallace H. White Jr. (August 6, 1877 - March 31, 1952) was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Congress from 1917 to 1949, representing the state of Maine. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1931 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 1947 to 1949. Born in Lewiston, Maine, White was a prominent figure in American politics during the first half of the 20th century, participating in significant legislative activities and playing a key role in shaping U.S. domestic and foreign policies during his time in Congress. Signed portrait of Herbert Hoover, inscribed to Senator Wallace H. White Jr. of Maine. This portrait dates from 1917, taken by Clinedinst Studio of Washington, DC. (illustrator). Signed. …