Napoleon Hill's First Editions

by Napoleon Hill

This beautiful collectors edition is a compilation of the best of Napoleon Hills early work, the basis of all his future perennial bestsellers. These writings have not been reprinted since they were originally published in 1918 to 1924. It is in these early articles that Hill honed his theories, refined his arguments, and polished his presentation of the success philosophy for the common man that his benefactor, Carnegie had envisioned. The material that filled the pages of Hills Golden Rule and Napoleon Hills Magazine are the original versions for the lessons that would become the basis of Hills masterwork Law of Success, and ten years after that, his international bestseller Think and Grow Rich.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2007

About the author

Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author and conman. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".
Hill is a controversial figure. Accused of fraud, modern historians also doubt many of his claims, such as that he met Andrew Carnegie and that he was an attorney.

Reviews

[Ken Parsell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Covering a variety of topics, the First Editions capture much of the emotion and enthusiasm Napoleon Hill poured into his work, at the challenge of the great steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The articles which appear in Napoleon Hill's First Editions were originally published nearly one hundred years ago (from 1919 to 1922) in magazines edited by the author. Hill's first major work, The Law of Success, was not published until 1928, and for those who are familiar with his work, the First Editions provide key insight into the early development and evolution of Napoleon Hill's writing and philosophy.