Set of Vintage "The Peter Principle" and "Parkinson's Law" Titles
Item Details
A set of vintage The Peter Principle and Parkinson’s Law titles. These two business and management classics are clothbound books. The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong , with dust jacket and some illustrations, is by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. The title page is marked ‘William Morrow & Company, Inc. – New York – 1969’. Another page features a photograph marked ‘Dr. Peter confers with Raymond Hull’. The Parkinson’s book, without a dust jacket, has a line drawing of a professorial gentleman on the cover. The title page is marked ’_Parkinson’s Law: And Other Studies In Administration_ By C. Northcote Parkinson – Raffles Professor of History – University of Malaya – Illustrated by Robert C. Osborn’. The publishing information on the title page reads ‘Houghton Mifflin Company Boston – The Riverside Press Cambridge’. The recto is marked ‘Copyright 1957 by C. Northcote Parkinson – The Riverside Press – Printed In The U.S.A.’
Condition
- wear to corners of covers; the Parkinson book paper edges show signs of aging.
Dimensions
- measurements according to the larger book, The Peter Principle.
Item #
16SWF074-063
