The Community of the Future
By Emanuel Lasker
M. J. BERNIN, PUBLISHER. NEW YORK. 1940. 1st Edition. Signed. Inscribed.
5 ½ x 7 ¾ inches. Hardcover. 1-295, [1] pp.
Very good. Spine faded. Some wear, minor loss to spine along back gutter at the head. Internally near fine; clean, tight, unmarked.
Signed/inscribed by Lasker in ink on front free endpaper’s verso: “Lotte Jacobi with kind greetings. Emanuel Lasker. June 7th, 40.”
Nice and attractive.
The last book by Emanuel Lasker (1868 – 1941), a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognized World Chess Champion in history.
In The Community of the Future Lasker is proposing solutions for serious political problems, including anti-Semitism and unemployment.
Inscribed to Lotte Jacobi (1896 – 1990), a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
The Community of the Future
By Emanuel Lasker
M. J. BERNIN, PUBLISHER. NEW YORK. 1940. 1st Edition. Signed. Inscribed.
5 ½ x 7 ¾ inches. Hardcover. 1-295, [1] pp.
Very good. Spine faded. Some wear, minor loss to spine along back gutter at the head. Internally near fine; clean, tight, unmarked.
Signed/inscribed by Lasker in ink on front free endpaper’s verso: “Lotte Jacobi with kind greetings. Emanuel Lasker. June 7th, 40.”
Nice and attractive.
The last book by Emanuel Lasker (1868 – 1941), a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognized World Chess Champion in history.
In The Community of the Future Lasker is proposing solutions for serious political problems, including anti-Semitism and unemployment.
Inscribed to Lotte Jacobi (1896 – 1990), a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century.
