Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Anchor A58; Essays selected by Riesman from his celebrated "Individualism Reconsidered" in a careful defense of American individualism and equally carefully considered criticism of conformity; an excellent introduction to Riesman's thought. First Printing of the First Anchor Edition; some soiling on edges o/w text is clean, tight, with very slight spine lean in blue wrappers with a small stain on front cover and age-discoloration on spine and edges. Scarce.

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Bookseller: H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002790
Title: SELECTED ESSAYS FROM INDIVIDUALISM RECONSIDERED
Author: Riesman, David
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good to Good Plus
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Printing, First Edition Thus.
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1955
Keywords: SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, FIRST EDITION, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, VINTAGE PAPERBACK, SCIENCE
Bookseller catalogs: Essays; History; Philosophy;

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