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[004507] Weber, Max; Parsons, Talcott (Trans.); Tawney, R. H. (Foreword) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / No Jacket. [4], vii-xi, [1], 1(a)-1(e), 2-292pp, [2]. Original cloth

Spine faded, slightly cocked, top edge lightly dust stained, with a former owner’s name to ffep, otherwise internally bright and clean

First published in German in the form of two articles in the Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik in 1904 and 1905 and reprinted in 1920 as the first study in Gesammelte Aufsatze zur Religionssoziologie, this is the first English edition of Weber’s important work, translated by Talcott Parsons