The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth: A New Diagram of Man in the Universe by D.E. Harding - 1952

Faber and Faber, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. First Edition. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters; some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Harper. Collectible - Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover in dustjacket. Published 1952. Condition is Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Book has clean covers and pages, square spine and corners and a tight binding. The jacket is clean with some fading to spine and a closed tear on back cover. Price-clipped.

Faber and Faber. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1952. Hard Cover. Ex-Library (T48) .

Harper & Brothers, 1952. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. Pale blue cloth hardcovers bumped and corners, minor shelfweare. Stamped name on front endpaper else interior clean and secure. Dustjacket rubbed and edgeworn with small tears, one inch missing at head of spine. . 8vo Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.

CollectibleVeryGood. Signed by author on title page. Page block firm and clean, binding tight, boards straight. No marking of any kind. Without dust wrapper. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

A very scarce example of a classic philosophical work by Douglas Harding that was described by C.S. Lewis as "a work of the highest genius". This is a reproduction of the original manuscript. It is a limited, numbered edition (number 96 of 300 copies), signed by the author with the date, 1999, on the title page.
White dust jacket with pictorial design on front. Black cloth-covered boards with embossed image on front cover and embossed lettering on spine.
The dust jacket is in very good plus condition with signs of light use. The rest of the book is in near fine condition. Pages are clean except for two small black marks on the lower edge of the text block. Binding remains tight.