Living the creative life, by Joseph H. Appel

New York: R. M. McBride & company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/None. Signed. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Signed and dated by the author with a personalized dedication on ffep. Three quarter black leather and blue cloth binding with loss of leather on front corners, and front board is detached but extant. Embossed, gilt-titled spine, worn at heel and chipped at head. Sewn binding is otherwise sound. Gilt upper page edges. Page edges are toned. Marbled end papers. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. 5.5 x 7.5 ins. Ships from our family-owned bookstore in the US. BOOK INFO: xviii, 230 p. 20 cm. 'Through thought, application and hard work, successful men build their efficient man-machine--health, understanding, technique. Then, keeping this machine in good running order, they give themselves up to the creative power that is within them, which rus the machine. They live the creative life and creative genius pours out of them. How I found within myself this Power is told in My Own Story...and also by some of the books at Thomas Troward, the English Mental Scientist.... Now, after larger business experience, and more study of Troward, I am attemtping to analyze the Power in terms of practical life, in the hope that the analysis will help other workers to comprehend its source, its meaning, its all-creativeness.' (-from the foreword.)