Niebuhr, Reinhold — Reflections on the End of an Era

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition, First Printing pp. xii, 3-302. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"). Publisher's navy-blue cloth over boards with gilt rules and lettering to spine, and front board; untrimmed foredge. Very light edgewear, charming ex-libris bookplate of one Rev. A.J. Wilson affixed to the front pastedown, neat period ink name to the ffep, contents otherwise without blemish with clean and unmarked leaves and sound binding; very good. First printing complete with the Scribner's "A" to the copyright leaf. ¶ "The following reflections are merely tracts for the times. They deal with questions which deserve more systematic treatment than are accorded to them in these pages. If their publication is justified at all the justification must be found in the urgency of the issues which our generation faces. The basic conviction which runs through them is that the liberal culture of modernity is quite unable to give guidance and direction to a confused generation which faces the disintegration of a social system and the task of building a new one."