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Hardcover, full genuine forest green leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 264 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, “privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics.” First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non- Fiction in 1969. This important call for balance between technological development and nature has it’s intellectual roots in the contemporaneous discussions of the Club of Rome and the earlier intellectual underpinnings of C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures”. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and as new copy. As new.