Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966.
First edition, first printing stated. (No mention of Angriff Press, no statement of "First published in 1966 by" on title page. One of two issues of undetermined priority, with a small number code 60013 on rear board; slightly taller than the issue without a number.) Signed by Carroll Quigley on the page facing the title page. xii, 1348 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth lettered in gilt on spine, yellow topstain, cartographical endpapers; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities; hinges tender. Ownership inscription by a student in Qugley's course "World Since 1914," James M. John, to front free endpaper. Signed copies are extremely rare.
Professor Carroll Quigley's magnum opus, a world history of power with a focus on the Anglo-American elite. In many ways Quigley was a complex bundle of contradictions, a conservative defender of Western civilization who opposed the Vietnam War and mentored Bill Clinton at Georgetown. During the early Cold War he was a true Washington insider who worked as a consultant for the Defense Department, the Navy, and other government entities, but his work is most often referenced by perennial outsiders like the John Birch Society and conspiracy researchers like the late Jim Marrs. He was an advocate for the very Anglo-American financial order he profiles in this work.
Price: $8,500