The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms

Hoffer, Eric

Published by Harper & Bros., New York, 1955

About this Item

New York: Harper & Bros., 1955. First Edition, stated, and C-E. Octavo, 151 pp. VERY Near Fine book, with just very modest trace soiling, in clipped VG dustjacket with wear at edges & joints and tape repair to inner upper edge. See scans. The second book of the longshoreman-turned-social philosopher, deemed a genius by many, after his "The True Believer". Hoffer's "wry epigrams and icy aphorisms", often zenny and always straightforward, here number 280, one-liners and paragraphs, and conclude with perhaps the best of the bunch: "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness". What you need to read. Scarce. L-44n.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms
• Publisher: Harper & Bros., New York
• Publication Date: 1955
• Language: English
• Binding: Cloth-backed Paper Boards
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy
  • Social Sciences