Age Happy Problems by Gold Herbert (47 results)
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Published by The Dial Press, 1962
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. VG-/Fair. 1962 Dial Press hardcover 1st edition (nap). A LOT of edgewear/fraying (some tears closed) and chipping on dj, sunning on edges of cover, staining near bottom of spine, some corner folds, light tanning, a bit of soil on edge, else text clean, bi…nding tight .
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. 1962 Edition - VERY GOOD in good dust jacket. DJ in protective mylar. Binding is tight and square. No marks in text. . . . . . . . In his 30's, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist Herbert Gold set out some of his impressions of the 1950s, mostly while travelling the wide world look…ing for what was not Cleveland. He offers the collection again in 1962, to test the validity of history against his predictions. . . a brilliantly ironic and reflective collection of essays and observations about postwar American life?its prosperity, anxieties, and illusions of happiness. This was Gold?s first major nonfiction work, written at a time when America had emerged triumphant from World War II and was deep in the conformist 1950s, poised on the edge of the ?New Frontier.? Through essays and sketches that mix satire with sociological reflection, Gold dissects suburban marriage, middle-class ambition, cultural trends, and the tension between individuality and conformity.Gold?s prose blends novelist?s flair with essayist?s bite?he was part of the same literary generation as Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow, and it shows in his mix of insight and swagger.For a reader in 2025, The Age of Happy Problems remains surprisingly resonant. Its critiques of consumer culture, overwork, and superficial happiness anticipate the social media era?s obsession with curated perfection and endless productivity. The anxieties Gold observed?alienation amid abundance, shallow self-invention, the decline of privacy?echo through modern life. His exploration of ?mass inertia? and ?mass destruction? also mirrors current concerns about technological overload and global instability.In today?s age of digital self-reinvention, Gold?s skepticism about ?creating ourselves in our own image? through consumption feels prophetic.In short, The Age of Happy Problems offers a sharp mirror for both its time and ours: a midcentury diagnosis of modern unease that foreshadows the challenges of identity and meaning in the 21st century.
Published by Dial Press, New York, 1962
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Stain at the bottom margin of two pages, light sunning at the foot of the spine, very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, and a few creased tears.
Published by Dial Press
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Published by The Dial Press, New York, 1962
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Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerHardccover. Condition: Near Fine to Fine. Near Fine. First American Edition. Nice copy in its first printing. Tiny red mark on bottom page edges else fine. Price intact jacket has light wear at base of spine, else could be graded fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by New York: The Dial Press, 1962
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Condition: slight wear to DJ; slight sun-fading to cloth binding; else NF/NF. Pages: xvii, 238.
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Published by Dial, New York, 1962
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Review Copy. Review copy with slip and photo laid in; light rubbing to dust jacket with small loss at front tips and head and heel of spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages.
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Published by Dial Press, 1962
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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. THE AGE OF HAPPY PROBLEMS, Dial, 1962, first edition fine in like dust-wrapper.
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Condition: New. An exploration of some of the not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of mass destruction and mass inertia. Herbert Gold tackles issues that are very much of significance to the individual, dealing with topics as diverse as teaching, writing, love, marriage, divorce and death. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC… Classification: 3JJ; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408. . 2002. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Condition: New. An exploration of some of the not-so-happy problems confronting people in an age of mass destruction and mass inertia. Herbert Gold tackles issues that are very much of significance to the individual, dealing with topics as diverse as teaching, writing, love, marriage, divorce and death. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC… Classification: 3JJ; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408. . 2002. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .
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