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ConditionVery Good overall with Very Good-minus dust jackets.Both hardcover volumes remain attractive and structurally sound, with clean black cloth boards and gilt spine lettering. Page blocks are generally clean and well preserved.Original dust jackets are present on both volumes and show age-related shelf wear, including light rubbing, creasing, small edge/corner wear and minor surface marks. The books themselves show only light shelf wear and small corner/edge bumps.Interior pages appear clean, crisp and fully legible. Bindings appear sound. No major interior damage is visible.These are not first editions. They are later Alfred A. Knopf printings from September 1980.Item DescriptionComplete matching two-volume hardcover edition of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, one of the major twentieth-century works examining the development, character and eventual decline of civilizations.Included are:Volume I — Form and Actuality
Explores Spengler’s theory of cultures as distinct historical organisms and considers art, religion, mathematics, science, philosophy and social development within those cultural cycles.Volume II — Perspectives of World-History
Expands the argument into political, economic and historical development, examining relationships among civilizations and the progression from culture toward what Spengler calls civilization.Translated into English by Charles Francis Atkinson, with notes and indexes. Both volumes retain their matching Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi dust jackets.A substantial set for collectors of philosophy, intellectual history, historiography and twentieth-century cultural criticism.
