The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. First Edition, stated, with publisher's A-A code. Octavo (19.7cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; boards in blue and gray buckram with blue lettering to spine; [xiv],176pp. Jacket shows a few tears and chips along edges, with creasing along top flap edges and an abrasion to rear panel with brief loss of text; spine ends chipped at head and abraded at tail, again with a bit of loss. Boards square with a bit of toning to head of spine and a small waterstain with fading at tail. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Bookmark for Sidney Kramer Books, the first incarnation of D.C.'s Kramers Books, laid in.

Hoffer's influential work on the social psychology of mass movements -- religious, social, nationalist, cultural -- and those who are drawn to them.