The Elephant and the Flea.

HANDY, Charles.

$200.00

Item Number: 71256

London: Hutchinson, 2001.

First edition of this memoir by the eminent philosopher. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Spiro Best wishes Charles Handy 23.11.01.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Discusses everything from the author's childhood in a Irish vicarage, to Oxford University, to his first job as an oil executive with Royal Dutch/Shell in the Far East, to a professorship at the London Business School, and finally to his status as an eminent social philosopher and international business guru.