The Future of Industrial Man by Drucker, Peter F - 1965

Mentor / NAL, 1965. Light browning to interior else unmarked. Covers have some browning, edge & corner wear, rubbing, etc. Still a solid copy. (PB#2). Mass Market Paperback. Good.

The John Day Co, 1942. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pgs.298 tight copy with some pages with blue ink and pencil underlining a few notes in margins top right corner of text blocks has an abrasion/rubbing also on board at that location. inside front cover has a newspaper article pastedown and former owner name on frontpiece, second frontpiece has gutter broken but all pages still intact, bumping corners and crinkles to top/bottom spines - good reading copy

The John Day Company, 1942-01-01. First Edition Third Impression. Hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. Former library hardcover, no dust jacket, in Good condition. Clean pages aside from library marks. Good binding. Ships fast and guaranteed well protected with domestic tracking.

New American Library, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Some age discoloration. Otherwise, clean and straight with clean text, and an uncreased spine. 208 pp.

William Heinemann, 1942. Hardcover. Good. 1942. No edition remarks. 298 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to title page. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Paperback. Very Good.

China Machine Press, 2018. Paperback. New. 205 pages. Chinese language. 9.02x6.73x0.47 inches.

New York: The John Day Company, 1942. 298pp. Black cloth, bright yellow lettering on the spine. Lower right corner is lightly bumped, foxing along the inner hinges,otherwise this is an unread, unmarked copy. The Unclipped yellow jacket has the original price of $2.50 on the front flap. The DJ spine is darkened and there are closed tears on the spine extremities, otherwise well preserved. In mylar sleeve."The Future of Industrial Man is the only book by Peter Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory. He presents the requirements for any society to be functioning and legitimate, and then applies these general concepts to the special case of the industrial society. In his new introduction, Drucker explains that his reference to mercantilism in The Future of Industrial Man can today be called neoconservatism, which, he asserts, denies rather than affirms the reality of industrial and postindustrial society. Drucker outlines the major shifts of previous centuries. He describes… Read More

New York: The John Day Company, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of The Future of Industrial Man by Peter F. Drucker, in scarce dust jacket.. Octavo, 298pp. Black cloth, title printed on spine. Top edge yellow. First edition, first printing with no additional printings mentioned on copyright page. In scarce dust jacket, price-clipped, but retains original retail price on rear panel, archival repairs to folds at spine, toning to spine and wear from handling, but an otherwise very good example. One of the key works from professor and business consultant, Peter F. Drucker. The Future of Industrial Man was his second book, a follow-up to The End of Economic Man (1939). His third book, Concept of the Corporation (1946) was published four years later.

New York: The John Day Company, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 298pp. Owner name on the front free endpaper, slightly bowed boards and spotting on the page edges, else very good in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine, shallow chips, and tears. "How can an industrial society be built as a free society?" Often referred to as "the founder of modern management," Drucker was an Austrian-American management consultant who became particularly influential in post-World War II Japanese business circles.