MENTAL EFFICIENCY by arnold bennett - 1911 first edition

New York: Wise, Wh. H.. Good. 1911. Hardcover. Hardcover in decorated gray boards. No jacket. Printing of 1911. Book is fresh and clean, with tight binding and light spotting to fore-edge. Decorative spine. Boards are soiled. Essays by the author of "The Old Wives' Tale. " 16mo. 119 pp. Plus a few pages of ads from the publisher. .

Hodder and Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Good. New Edition. 153 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Paperback. New.

Independently published, 2019. Paperback. New. 54 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.14 inches.

MP3 Audio CD. Mental Efficiency I MENTAL EFFICIENCY THE APPEAL If there is any virtue in advertisements—and a journalist should be the last person to say that there is not—the American nation is rapidly reaching a state of physical efficiency of which the world has probably not seen the like since Sparta. In all the American newspapers and all the American monthlies are innumerable illustrated announcements of "physical-culture specialists," who guarantee to make all the organs of the body perform their duties with the mighty precision of a 60 h.p. motor-car that never breaks down. I saw a book the other day written by one of these specialists, to show how perfect health could be attained by devoting a quarter of an hour a day to certain exercises. The advertisements multiply and increase in size. They cost a great deal of money. Therefore they must bring in a great deal of business. [8]Therefore vast numbers of people must be worried about the non-efficiency of their… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Mental Efficiency I MENTAL EFFICIENCY THE APPEAL If there is any virtue in advertisements—and a journalist should be the last person to say that there is not—the American nation is rapidly reaching a state of physical efficiency of which the world has probably not seen the like since Sparta. In all the American newspapers and all the American monthlies are innumerable illustrated announcements of "physical-culture specialists," who guarantee to make all the organs of the body perform their duties with the mighty precision of a 60 h.p. motor-car that never breaks down. I saw a book the other day written by one of these specialists, to show how perfect health could be attained by devoting a quarter of an hour a day to certain exercises. The advertisements multiply and increase in size. They cost a great deal of money. Therefore they must bring in a great deal of business. [8]Therefore vast numbers of people must be worried about the non-efficiency of their… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback. New.

Doran 1911 hardcover with minor cover wear. Clean pages, tight binding. Scarce first edition.