Parkinson's Law or, The Pursuit of Progress.

Parkinson (C. Northcote)

Parkinson's Law or, The Pursuit of Progress.

With illustrations by Osbert Lancaster.

Description: FIRST EDITION, title-vignette and full-page illustrations by Lancaster, pp. v, 122, crown 8vo, original green cloth with vignette (repeat of that to title-page) stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, faintest of spotting to top edge, bump to one corner, compliments card from Philip G. Walker (hoping 'this will make interesting reading in anticipation of the Group Management Conference') laid in, dustjacket with gentle rubbing to extremities and a touch of fading to backstrip panel, very good

Publication Details: John Murray, 1958

Notes: A nice copy of this seminal work of humour, an assessment of modern bureaucracy.

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