Through Understanding To Ability And Freedom. A 1957 Handbook For Dianetic Auditors by Van Vogt, A. (Alfred) E. (Elton) - 1957

Paris: J.-B. Bailliere and Lyon Charles Savy Jeune, 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [8], 516. Pages generally clean with some mild scattered foxing. Bound in contemporary or somewhat later quarter black morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Jean Louis Brachet (1789-1858) French professor of pathology and a member of L'Académie imperiale de médecine. His book Traite de l' Hysterie was an important early modern study on the subject. The author classifies and describes different forms of hysteria in males and females. [Hirsch I, p. 554-555].

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First American Edition . Beige Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine Book. 330 Pp + 2 Pp Catalog At End. A Near Fine Book, Just A Touch Of Wear And A Little Flecking And Browning To Cloth On Spine, All Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight. Woodcut Bookplate Of Margaret Brewer Fowler Printed Entirely In Brown With A Rose And Her Name In Arts/Crafts Script, On Front Paste-Down, With "Fowler" Signature Above And A Larger Signature On The Facing Front Free Endpaper, No Other Marks. Per Wikipedia, Fowler Was Born In 1863, In San Francisco, One Of Three Daughters Of Prominent Lawyer John Brewer. Margaret And Three Of Her Closest Girlhood Friends, Anna Head (Founder Of Head-Royce School), Mary Mclean, And Mattie Belcher, Seniors At Oakland High School, Became Well-Known Educators. Fowler Was The Godmother Of Beverly Hard, Wife Of Dr. Frederick Hard, An Early President Of Scripps College (1944-64), Whose Daughters She Later Put Thru Scripps. She Provided College Scholarships For Many… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1924. First American Edition, First Printing . Dark Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8 3/4" High.. 10 Illustrations. Xvi, 167 Pp. Dark Green Cloth, Gilt. First American Printing, 1924, Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain. Clean, Unmarked Pages. No Inscriptions. Covers Clean; Gilt Lettering On Spine Brilliant And Complete, Near Fine. In The Long Biography Published In The Biographical Memoirs Of The National Academy Of Sciences In 1957, The Writer Notes That "It Is Quite Appropriate To Say That Louis Leon Thurstone Was To Psychology Of The First Half Of The Twentieth Century What Gustav Theodore Fechner Was To The Last Half Of The Nineteenth. Fechner Was The Father Of Quantitative Psychology; Thurstone Was Its Chief Torchbearer In Recent Years. In Addition To His Many Novel Contributions During The Past Thirty Years, We Have As Memorials To Him The Psychometric Society And The Journal Psychometrika, Both Of Which Were Founded Through His… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. Ix, 209 Pp. First Printing, 1939, Red Cloth, Spine Printed In Black. Book Is Near Fine, Trace Of Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks. Dj With Just Light Wear, Minute Loss Across Most Of Top Of Spine, A Few Other Very Short Tears And Minute Losses, One Almost 2" Long Completely Closed Tear At Top Right Of Rear Panel, Not Affecting Text, Very Slight Fading To Red Printing On Spine. (Per Wikipedia): John Dollard ( 1900 - 1980) Was An American Psychologist And Social Scientist Known For His Studies On Race Relations In America And The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis He Proposed With Neal E. Miller And Others. Dollard Is Likely Best Known Within The Psychological Community As A Member Of The Distinguished Group Of Young Researchers (Among Whom Was Neal E. Miller) At Yale University In The 1930S Who, Inspired Initially By Clark L. Hull, Sought To Combine Learning Theory And Psychoanalysis. The Groups'… Read More

The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1935 Bodley Head Half-Crown Edition) THE FIRST HERCULE POIROT TITLE EVER WRITTEN BY CHRISTIE. Mandarin Orange cloth boards with black and green stripes on front cover. Black Titling. States Bodley Head on spine. Spine may be slightly sunned. Pages are fairly bright. Foxing noted, chiefly at the title page and verso. Used. Good Condition / New fax candlestick motif dust jacket. Hardcover. Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

Paris: J.-B. Bailliere and Lyon Charles Savy Jeune, 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [8], 516. Pages generally clean with some mild scattered foxing. Bound in contemporary or somewhat later quarter black morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Jean Louis Brachet (1789-1858) French professor of pathology and a member of L'Académie imperiale de médecine. His book Traite de l' Hysterie was an important early modern study on the subject. The author classifies and describes different forms of hysteria in males and females. [Hirsch I, p. 554-555].

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First American Edition . Beige Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine Book. 330 Pp + 2 Pp Catalog At End. A Near Fine Book, Just A Touch Of Wear And A Little Flecking And Browning To Cloth On Spine, All Gilt Brilliant, Hinges Tight. Woodcut Bookplate Of Margaret Brewer Fowler Printed Entirely In Brown With A Rose And Her Name In Arts/Crafts Script, On Front Paste-Down, With "Fowler" Signature Above And A Larger Signature On The Facing Front Free Endpaper, No Other Marks. Per Wikipedia, Fowler Was Born In 1863, In San Francisco, One Of Three Daughters Of Prominent Lawyer John Brewer. Margaret And Three Of Her Closest Girlhood Friends, Anna Head (Founder Of Head-Royce School), Mary Mclean, And Mattie Belcher, Seniors At Oakland High School, Became Well-Known Educators. Fowler Was The Godmother Of Beverly Hard, Wife Of Dr. Frederick Hard, An Early President Of Scripps College (1944-64), Whose Daughters She Later Put Thru Scripps. She Provided College Scholarships For Many… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1924. First American Edition, First Printing . Dark Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8 3/4" High.. 10 Illustrations. Xvi, 167 Pp. Dark Green Cloth, Gilt. First American Printing, 1924, Using Sheets Printed In Great Britain. Clean, Unmarked Pages. No Inscriptions. Covers Clean; Gilt Lettering On Spine Brilliant And Complete, Near Fine. In The Long Biography Published In The Biographical Memoirs Of The National Academy Of Sciences In 1957, The Writer Notes That "It Is Quite Appropriate To Say That Louis Leon Thurstone Was To Psychology Of The First Half Of The Twentieth Century What Gustav Theodore Fechner Was To The Last Half Of The Nineteenth. Fechner Was The Father Of Quantitative Psychology; Thurstone Was Its Chief Torchbearer In Recent Years. In Addition To His Many Novel Contributions During The Past Thirty Years, We Have As Memorials To Him The Psychometric Society And The Journal Psychometrika, Both Of Which Were Founded Through His… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. Ix, 209 Pp. First Printing, 1939, Red Cloth, Spine Printed In Black. Book Is Near Fine, Trace Of Rubbing At Corners, No Names Or Marks. Dj With Just Light Wear, Minute Loss Across Most Of Top Of Spine, A Few Other Very Short Tears And Minute Losses, One Almost 2" Long Completely Closed Tear At Top Right Of Rear Panel, Not Affecting Text, Very Slight Fading To Red Printing On Spine. (Per Wikipedia): John Dollard ( 1900 - 1980) Was An American Psychologist And Social Scientist Known For His Studies On Race Relations In America And The Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis He Proposed With Neal E. Miller And Others. Dollard Is Likely Best Known Within The Psychological Community As A Member Of The Distinguished Group Of Young Researchers (Among Whom Was Neal E. Miller) At Yale University In The 1930S Who, Inspired Initially By Clark L. Hull, Sought To Combine Learning Theory And Psychoanalysis. The Groups'… Read More

The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1935 Bodley Head Half-Crown Edition) THE FIRST HERCULE POIROT TITLE EVER WRITTEN BY CHRISTIE. Mandarin Orange cloth boards with black and green stripes on front cover. Black Titling. States Bodley Head on spine. Spine may be slightly sunned. Pages are fairly bright. Foxing noted, chiefly at the title page and verso. Used. Good Condition / New fax candlestick motif dust jacket. Hardcover. Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!