Parkinson's Law, Or The Pursuit Of Progress - Signed & Inscribed To Monica Searle Parkinson, Cyril Northcote With Illustrations By John Lancaster Humour & Cartoons,Signed Books

Fourth impression (published in the same month as the first impression). Octavo, pp 122. Bound in green cloth covered hard boards and in the original dust jacket, un-clipped (12 s 6d net). Illustrated by John Lancaster. Parkinson's Law is "the observation that the duration of public administration, bureaucracy and officialdom expands to fill its allotted time span, regardless of the amount of work to be done. This is attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other". He first published this in the Economist in 1955, and expanded it with other essays into this book. SIGNED and inscribed to the front endpaper by the author to Monica Koenig, later to be the second wife of Ronald Searle: "Mon with love from the author C. Northcote Parkinson June 1958" and below the book's illustrator John Lancaster has inscribed "To Monica" and drawn a half page illustration of a car driving towards the Eiffel Tower (Koenig was resident in Paris). A lovely copy of this book with excellent attributes. Fine condition book in Near Fine jacket.