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First Edition of Peter Druckers Classic First Book The End of Economic Man; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, PETER F.
The End of Economic Man: A Study of the New Totalitarianism.
New York: John Day 1939.
First edition of Drucker’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free endpaper. An excellent near fine example in a very good dust jacket with some wear and tear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare, especially signed.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 48008
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"The only book by Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory"; First Edition of The Future of Industrial Man Signed by Him
DRUCKER, PETER F.
The Future of Industrial Man.
New York: The John Day Company 1942.
First edition of Drucker’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free endpaper. An excellent example in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Uncommon, especially signed.
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 99512
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The only book by Drucker in which he systematically develops a basic social theory; The Future of Industrial Man; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, PETER F.
The Future of Industrial Man.
New York: John Day 1942.
First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free end paper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 144693
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Karl Polanyi's landmark work Origins of Our Time: The Great Transformation; Inscribed by Him to Peter and Doris Drucker
POLANYI, KARL [PETER F. DRUCKER].
Origins of Our Time: The Great Transformation.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1946.
First edition, early printing of Polanyi’s landmark work, which many consider to be one of the twentieth century’s most incisive and prophetic works of scholarship. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Peter and Doris With Love Karl.” The recipients were Peter Drucker and his wife Doris. Polanyi and Drucker were close friends and colleagues. Born in Budapest, Polanyi moved to Vienna, where he met Drucker while he worked as senior editor of The Austrian Economist. In July 1940, the President of Bennington College, Robert Leigh, wrote to the publisher W.W. Norton, asking him to forward the names of refugee scholars who had been forced to leave Europe as result of the war, and who might benefit from spending a year at Bennington as “honorary fellows of the college.” Later that week, Drucker, himself a refugee, contacted Leigh with a request to bring Polanyi from Vienna to the college. “Drucker devoted an entire passage of his memoirs, Adventures of a Bystander, to the Polanyi family. Elsewhere, he noted that “perhaps I learned the most from Polanyi, although not formally because we were friends.” Among other things, Drucker described in Polanyi a talent for the practice of social ecology: “He analyzed, with an uncanny knack for seeing the importance of inconspicuous developments-at an early stage.” (Drucker’s Lost Art of Management, by Joseph A. Maciariello and Karen E. Linkletter). Both Polanyi and Drucker acknowledged each other in their major wartime works, and continued to exchange letters until Polanyi’s death in 1964. Drucker even had a hand in preparing The Great Transformation for publication after Polanyi returned to England, leaving behind an unfinished manuscript. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing, small name to the front free endpaper. An exceptional association. This is the first signed example we have seen.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 118455
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes": First Edition of Peter Drucker's The New Society; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, PETER F.
The New Society: The Anatomy of the Industrial Order.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers 1950.
First edition of Drucker’s classic fourth book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare signed.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 89653
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes": The New Society; Signed by Peter F. Drucker
DRUCKER, PETER F.
The New Society: The Anatomy of the Industrial Order.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1950.
First edition, early printing of Drucker’s classic fourth book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 144698
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“Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective": First Edition of Peter F. Drucker's The Effective Executive
DRUCKER, PETER F.
The Effective Executive.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1967.
First edition of Drucker’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 144241
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“Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective": First Edition of Peter F. Drucker's The Effective Executive; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, PETER F.
The Effective Executive.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1967.
First edition of Drucker’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 23008
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“KNOWLEDGE HAS TO BE IMPROVED, CHALLENGED, AND INCREASED CONSTANTLY, OR IT VANISHES”: FIRST EDITION OF MEN, IDEAS AND POLITICS; SIGNED BY PETER F. DRUCKER
DRUCKER, PETER F.
Men, Ideas, and Politics.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1971.
First edition of this work by the father of management. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the extremities.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 4511
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's Landmark Work Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices; Signed by Him
DRUCKER, PETER F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers 1974.
First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Roy La Grone. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 44009