GINSBERG, Morris
 
The Idea of Progress: A Revaluation; published by Methuen & Co Ltd., London in 1953.
 
Description
 
Octavo. Original light grey boards, front cover lettered in black with publisher's device, spine lettered in black. Lacking the dust jacket. A very good copy, spine slightly toned with light shelf wear to the extremities, contents clean. Inner hinge tender, otherwise a tight copy. Binding remains firm and secure.
First edition, an exceptional association copy presenting a direct lineage of British sociological leadership, inscribed by the author to his colleague and ultimate academic successor.
This copy is inscribed by Morris Ginsberg to Donald Gunn MacRae on the front free endpaper: ‘To Donald / with many thanks for your / help from / Morris’.
Morris Ginsberg (1889–1970) served as the Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics from 1929 to 1954. He was instrumental in establishing sociology as a formal academic discipline in the United Kingdom. The recipient, Donald Gunn MacRae (1921–1997), worked alongside Ginsberg at the LSE during the period of this book's publication. MacRae later succeeded to the same Martin White Chair of Sociology, directly continuing Ginsberg's institutional legacy. The inscription explicitly notes MacRae's assistance in the development or production of this text, making it a critical document of mid-century academic collaboration at the LSE.