TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (USA First Edition, First Printing)
Published by George Braziller, 1960
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: CWM Rare Books, LLC, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.CWM Rare Books, LLC
AbeBooks seller since July 20, 2022
Condition: Used - Near fine
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Free USPS 1-3 day Priority Mail shipping in USA 48. Book Condition: Fine, with some minor foxing to text block foot edge and front paste-down end paper. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, preserved in Brodart plastic wrap. This rare First Edition, First Printing by George Braziller, NY, 1960 is in outstanding condition. The author is the daughter of Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann. 167 pages. 204 mm x 134 mm Contains the following interrelated (in 3 groups)short stories: 'The Rehearsal' (orchestrating apes, nature of civilisation, music); 'To Whom It May Concern' (mankind in robots, nature of work); 'The Immortal Fish' (cryogenics, man in Time, nature of death); 'The True Self' (women and beauty, the nature of beauty, plastic surgery in the beauticians); 'Delphi Revisited' (statistics and fate); 'Again' (reincarnation and guilt); 'Twins Wail' (nature of identity, guilt); 'Flowers' (nature of place, distance and time); 'The Straits'. ***'With this collection of 9 short stories a new (Science Fiction) writer of vision and controlled tension makes her first appearance in England. Taken together, the stories present a judgement on the impact of our century on individual life; separately, they stand as moments of insight into the conflict between fate and choice, guilt and grace, logic and chance, love and law. In each of the nine stories the author intricately sustains an equipoise between illusion and fact where reality and possibility merge.' (Quote from the British first edition). From Wikipedia: Marriage Elisabeth Mann married the anti-fascist Italian writer and professor of literature Giuseppe Antonio Borgese[18] (1882 1952) in 1939. They had two daughters, Angelica (born 1940) and Dominica (born 1944).[4] Mann Borgese also had a foster son, Marcel Deschamp Borgese.[19] University of Chicago Mann Borgese moved to Chicago with her husband, who taught at the University of Chicago. With Richard McKeon and Robert Hutchins, G. A. Borgese formed the interdisciplinary Committee to Frame a World Constitution, which published a Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution in 1948. The members of the Committee at the time of the publication of the Draft were, in addition to Hutchins and Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Léon Guérard, Harold Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles Howard McIlwain, Robert Redfield, and Rexford Tugwell. Elisabeth was the secretary of the Committee and edited its journal, Common Cause, which was published by the University of Chicago Press from 1947 1951.[20][21] In 1952, G. A. Borgese died in Fiesole, Italy.[22] In the mid-1960s, Mann Borgese worked as an editor, researcher and translator in Chicago. She was editor of Intercultural Publications for the Ford Foundation[2] from 1952 to 1964.[21] She was for two years the executive secretary of the board of the Encyclopædia Britannica.[2][4] She worked as a translator with Max Rheinstein, who helped to establish the study of comparative law in the United States. She assisted Rheinstein and Edward A. Shils in translating parts of Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, published as Max Weber On Law In Economy And Society.[23][24] She experimented with writing science fiction, publishing several stories in 1959, which were collected in the anthology, To Whom It May Concern (1960). The pessimism of her speculative fiction is in strong contrast to her usual optimism.[8] In 1963, Borgese published The Ascent of Woman, a sociological work suggesting that women were in the process of becoming "men's true equals".[8] Elisabeth lived with psychiatrist and writer Corrado Tumiati (1885 1967) from 1953 until his death in 1967.…
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- Title
- TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (USA First Edition, First Printing)
- Author
- Elisabeth Mann Borgese
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Publication year
- 1960
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
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CWM Rare Books, LLC, is a privately-held dealer in art books, art periodicals, Spanish mysteries, out-of-print books for silver collectors and assorted oversized volumes. We also specialize in catalogues raisonnés for European & American artists that have been printed in the last 30 years or so. We are exceptional in that you will be allowed to have plenty of access to the original book collectors themselves so that you can ask all of the difficult questions that a discriminating collector will certainly have. CWM Rare Books, LLC, is proud to announce that just in 2022 we have sold rare books to the following libraries of major US Colleges & Universities: * Vassar College * Princeton University * Smith College * Virginia Tech * Grinnell College…
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CWM Rare Books, LLC, is a privately-held dealer in art books, art periodicals, Spanish mysteries, out-of-print books for silver collectors and assorted oversized volumes.
We also specialize in catalogues raisonnés for European & American artists that have been printed in the last 30 years or so. We are exceptional in that you will be allowed to have plenty of access to the original book collectors themselves so that you can ask all of the difficult questions that a discriminating collector will certainly have.
CWM Rare Books, LLC, is proud to announce that just in 2022 we have sold rare books to the following libraries of major US Colleges & Universities:
- Vassar College
- Princeton University
- Smith College
- Virginia Tech
- Grinnell College
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