The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- good/poor
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1954. hardcover. good/poor. Good book in poor dust jacket. Jacket is tanning, with closed tears; spine and back have stains and chips, with some loss; now in new removable protective cover. Green cloth covered boards with gold print in black boxes; this is Modern Library binding style 8 (Blumenthal design). The boards have a stain on the front and some discoloration on the back. Gray Rockwell Kent Modern Library end papers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Modern Library hard cover, with dust jacket, 1934 edition, fall 1954 printing. Modern Library #63, 404 pages. 12mo (4.75"" x 7.25"") Dated using Gordon B. Neavill's Modern Library Dating Key. Includes a forward by Stuart Chase.
Synopsis
The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book, first published in 1899, by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago. Veblen claimed he wrote the book as a perceptive personal essay criticizing contemporary culture, rather than as an economics textbook. Critics claim this was an excuse for his failure to cite sources.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12312003veblengr
- Title
- The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Author
- Thorstein Veblen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good
- Jacket Condition
- poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- economics
- Bookseller catalogs
- nonfiction;
- Size
- 12mo
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- Poor
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- Library Binding
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- Spine
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- 12mo
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- Jacket
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