This book was published in early 1964, after the author died in April of 1963 at the age of 53, as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage. The pamphlet was printed in February of 1963, a few weeks before his death.

BOOK: (PHOTOS 1-10)- Visions of Order

DUST JACKET IS COMPLETE AND IN A BRODART SLEEVE. THERE IS SURFACE RUBBING AND AGE RELATED PAPER TONING. AT ONE POINT, THERE WAS A LARGE TEAR TO THE FRONT PANEL WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE CRUMPLED, LEAVING MANY CREASES. PRIOR OWNER MADE AN ATTEMPT TO REPAIR IT BUT DID SO BY TAPING CLEAR TAPE TO THE "OUTSIDE" OF THE PAPER, INSTEAD OF ON THE BLANK INTERIOR.  BECAUSE OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE BRODART SLEEVE, THE TAPE IS NOT VISIBLE AS BOTH ARE REFLECTIVE, BUT IT IS THERE.  (PHOTO 2)

THE BOOK ITSELF IS BETWEEN VERY GOOD PLUS AND NEAR FINE IN CONDITION WITH MINOR RUBBING TO THE GREEN DYE ON THE BOARD EDGES, DUST ON THE EXPOSED PAGE EDGES AND AGE RELATED PAPER TONING.

PAGES OF BOTH THE BOOK AND THE PAMPHLET HAVE NO WRITING, NO STAMPS, NO LABELS, NO TEARS, NO CREASES, NO NOTED INTERIOR SOILING, NO UNDERLINING, NO HIGHLIGHTING, NO MARKS, AND NO CORNER BUMPS OR FOXING TO PAGES. BOOK BINDING IS TIGHT AND SQUARE.

OVERALL, THE BOOK IS IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION AND THE DUST JACKET IS AT LEAST COMPLETE.

PAMPHLET: (PHOTOS 1 & 11-14) Academic Freedom: The Principle & the Problems

THIS IS THE REAL RARITY. THE PAMPHLET IS 8.5 INCHES TALL AND 4 INCHES WIDE. THE PAMPHLET IS 15 PAGES PLUS OUTER WRAPS AND I DON'T THINK YOU WILL FIND ANOTHER PHYSICAL COPY ANYWHERE. 

- There is age related paper toning and some browning to the top edge of the outer wraps. This was published by The Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, Inc.

- You can zoom on the photos and read a bit of it. READ (PHOTO 12)This is an exceptional pamphlet to give to a liberal minded person who simply can't understand why someone would vote for Donald Trump. This pamphlet will give insight into why, and it was written over sixty years ago. 

In other words, this author saw our current divisions as inevitable over 60 years ago.

 PLEASE USE ZOOM FUNCTION ON ALL PHOTOS AS THEY ARE CONSIDERED PART OF THE DESCRIPTION.

Richard M. Weaver:  In the great pantheon of half-forgotten conservative sages, the southern writer Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) occupies an important, if curious, niche. I say “writer,” but that is an imprecise designation. By trade, Weaver was a professor of rhetoric. He is even the author of a textbook on the subject. One friend said that Weaver was “a rhetor doing the work of a philosopher.” It might be more accurate to say that he was a critic doing the work of a prophet. Prophets as a species tend to specialize in bad news; they rarely return from the mountain reporting that the management has concluded that everything down below is just fine.  Weaver’s star rose dramatically in 1948 when Ideas Have Consequences was published by the University of Chicago Press. He instantly went from being just another disgruntled prof to being a sort of academic celebrity. He had a knack for telling people what they didn’t want to hear in such a way that they craved to hear it. “This is another book,” he began mournfully, “about the dissolution of the West.” It was Weaver’s constant theme. Ideas is a brief book, fewer than 200 pages. But it crackles with passion and extensive, if sometimes imperfectly digested, erudition. Its success, or perhaps I should say its notoriety, astonished everyone, not least its author.

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