CARNEGIE, Dale (1888-1955)

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Lot 76 | CARNEGIE, Dale (1888-1955)
CARNEGIE, Dale (1888-1955)

How to win friends and influence people. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937.

Presentation copy to Anthony Eden of one of the best-selling self-help books of all time. This 15th 'edition’ [i.e. impression] was published in March 1937, bringing the print run at that time – within a year of the appearance of the first edition – to 275,000 copies. Carnegie writes: ‘This book is inscribed to one of England’s most brilliant leaders – the Right Honorable Anthony Robert Eden. He doesn’t need to read this book He lives it.’



Octavo (203 x 125mm). (Occasional light finger-soiling mainly confined to margins.) Publisher’s red cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine (spine faded, tiny snag to headcap). Provenance: Dale Carnegie (authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper to:) – Anthony Eden.





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