SOCIAL JUDGMENT

New York:Harcourt, Brace and Company. (1935). 175pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards clean with gilt on spine still bright. Internally, pages slightly age-toned, but clean, with a previous owners name penciled to the 1st free fly-leaf.  The dust jacket is in near very good condition, price clipped and lightly soiled (sun-faded along spine strip), with wear to edges including small chips and tears. *"Graham Wallas...discusses here the part played by thought and emotion in the process by which men arrive at responsible decisions, and the possibility of improving that process by the development of an art of Social Judgment. He traces the past history of the idea of good judgment or wisdom in human society as it appears in some of the traditional conceptions of wisdom from the time of ancient Egypt to the twentieth century."...dj