Great Leaders in Human Progress

Edward Howard Griggs

Published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1939

About this Item

Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN. 1939. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Retired small town library with little use. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a library stamp on the front pastedown and an index number on the spine. Book Condition: Good +; pocket and checkout slip on the front endpapers; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges; slight sunfading to spine; light soiling to boards. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 191 pp 12mo. The author of this book was an educator and lecturer who spoke on statesmanship and was asked to provide weekly broadcasts on NBC on the Lives of Great Men. His 13 choices, he felt were outstanding leaders of the mind and spirit and aided the onflowing stream of human progress. They were Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Theodoric the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante, Savonarola, Leonard Da Vinci, Erasmus, Giordano Bruno, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklin. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 016612

Bibliographic Details

Title: Great Leaders in Human Progress

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN

Publication Date: 1939

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition