Search Results: the meeting of east and west by northrop fsc

Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Slight fading to spine. Small crease to lower right front cover. Reprint (1979) of original (1946) edition as published by Macmillan. Study of effect of Eastern thought on the West in postwar world.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1953. hardcover. Book VG-: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, name FFEP, several spots of underlining in text, binding tight.. 8vo 531pp. ninth printing.  "With this book Professor Northrop makes a major contribution to world understanding and philosophical criticism. In analyzing the ideological conflicts of the contemporary world, and in offering a resolution of these conflicts, his achievement is both important and timely. The main thesis of the book is that the traditionally alien cultures of the Orient and teh Occident are meeting; and that the working out of this meeting so that the values of each civilization complement and reinforce rather than combat and destroy those of the other is the chief task of the epoch just ahead." #02594.

New York: Macmillan, 1952. 531pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in red polished calf, with the Thaw family motto stamped in gilt on the upper cover: "Ou le Sort Appelle" (Where Destiny Calls), top edge gilt. Fine. 531pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Macmillan, 1960. Softcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Lightly read. Browning to page edges. Shelf wear to cover edges.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. hardcover. Book VG: shelf wear and age toning to boards and spine, toning to endpapers and text block. Elements of DJ tipped in on front paste down and FFEP, name on FFEP, text clean, binding intact.. 8vo 531pp. third printing. from front flap: "With this book Professor Northrop makes a major contribution to world understanding and philosophical criticism. In analyzing the ideological conflicts of the contemporary world, and in offering a resolution of these conflicts, his achievement is both important and timely. The main thesis of the book is that the traditionally alien cultures of the Orient and teh Occident are meeting; and that the working out of this meeting so that the values of each civilization complement and reinforce rather than combat and destroy those of the other is the chief task of the epoch just ahead." #02593.