Character and Social Structure: How Man Creates His Destiny as a Member of a Society
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; xxi,490pp; includes bibliography. Brief gift inscription to front endpaper, else a tight, clean and unmarked copy in slightly rubbed and worn dustwrapper with a few brief, closed tears at extremities; Very Good.
A major work in the Mills canon, the result of a twelve-year collaboration with Mills' frequent collaborator Hans Gerth to synthesize social-psychological and sociological thought, heavily influenced by the work of Freud, Marx, Max Weber, and George Mead. Much reprinted, but uncommon in the first edition, especially so in dustwrapper.
Price: $125.00