Man as interpreter /
| Corporate Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt, Brace and Company,
[1950]
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| Edition: | [First edition] |
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| Item Description: | Decorative red and white paper boards with title printed in white on gray panel bordered in white on front cover. Endpapers illustrated with medieval woodcut of man looking beyond the horizon into the universe Title page printed in red and black and illustrated in the upper right of Theseus slaying the Minator; in the center a section of the third part of John Sebastian Bach's 'Clavier-Übung' engraved by the composer and in the lower left drawing 'Woman in an Armchair' by Pablo Picasso "'Man as Interpreter' is part of a section on the nature of man that forms an introduction to the main theme of 'The Conduct of Life'. That book, in turn is the fourth and final volume of a work that opened in 1934, with 'Technics and Civilization'. With 'The Conduct of Life,' I bring the major task of my last twenty years to an end." "Anno MCMLI. This first edition of 'Man as Interpreter' is privately printed for the friends of the author and his publishers as a New Year's greeting." "Copyright, 1950, by Lewis Mumford." |
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| Physical Description: | 6 unnumbered pages, 17 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York (State) -- New York |