john seeley robert alexander sim (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 2nd Edition. 505 pages with maps, appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Second printing. This is a study of a well known Canadian community. It is located within the borders of one of Canada's big cities, its name symbolizes success wealth and social prestige, its inhabitants possess as many of the "good things of life" as most people ever aspire to This penetrating study of how they live, how they raise and educate their children, how they compete socially and economically, is of absorbing interest - not as a revelation of basic unhappiness of a wealthy community, but as an illuminating of the dilemmas in which modern Western middle-class people find themselves everywhere. Condition: Corners bumped, spin extremities rubbed. Jacket corners chipped, 1" missing at spine head, edges chipped, chips in front edge fold-over else a very good copy in a good jacket.