Search Results: Authors starting with L from Douglas Books

La Salle, Illinois: The Open Court Pub.Co., 1961. edition unstated, 1st thus 1912. . Blue Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 13.5 Cm x 21 Cm. unpag.prelims+216 pp.; this would be Fine were it not for the fact that it is edge-browning throughout; a useful edition for Bussey's additional material.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. 1st ed. . Orange Cloth. G-VG/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 19.5 Cm. Carroll C.Snell. f/piece with orange border+unpag.prelims+171, one further full page ill. plate plus 5 text ills in Appendix plus headpieces; short sig. top frotn endpaper, fair-to-moderate tanning to outer sides of endpapers, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, covers with printed title and two cello motifs on front are generally clean, suggestion of slight fading to edges, spine a tad faded, a few trivial small marks. Might be considered an Alice in Wonderland spin-off, imagining Alice meeting the various instruments in the orchestra, the Appendix has diagrom of orchestra lay-out and more detailed descriptions of the various classes of instruments. It is possible that this book was associated with a series of 'Concerts for Children and Young People' given by the New York Symphony Orchestra (of which the author was actually a member), conducted by Walter Damrosch,… Read More

London : Routledge, 1993. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Silver p/back cover clean but marred by crease across back lower outer corner and mere hints of rubbing to fr. outer corners. xiv + 338; internally virtually pristine. 15 cm x 23 cm

London: Duckworth, 1993. 1st ed. . Dark Green Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. (1)+241; pristine bar barely visible trace of erased pencil pricing to top front endpaper; unclipped jacket clean and unworn bar very slight top edge rubbing in places and two repaired nicks bottom back edge. Issued in The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series ed. Richard Sorabi. Philoponus (490-570) was an eminent 6th century philosopher, narural historian and philosopher who took issue with Aristotle on numerous issues (see on-line Stanford Encyclopedia entry). Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black cloth with giltsp. lettering, pristine. Differently illustrated end-papers. Verso fr. end-paper-recto f/piece ill. across full opening, f/piece + 125, copiu0sly ill. throughout with full page and full opening plates, some tinted brown or blue, also smaller text ills; top recto f/piece has 'too Sasha, my son R.L.' otherwise no obvious faults. Unclipped jacket clean with no obvious faults, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 19 cm x 25 cm

York, S. Carolina: French Literature Publications, 1982. 1st Edition . Grey Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 14.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xiii+186, a pristine unmarked, unworn copy. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1898. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. Good. 14.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. xi+428+32 (pub.catalogue), 25 text figs, 2 pp. of early notes slipped in; ; 1905 & 1972-dated signs top front endpaper, inner sides of endpapers tanned, front end-gutter split but secure, extensive pencil and ink marginal lines etc and occ. marginalia throughout; covers clean but extrem,eities and joints slightly rubbed. Clearly a working/reference copy only.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. 1st UK ed. . Dark Cloth. Good-VG. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xii+696+(8)(Scribner's cat.)+24 (November 1888 Longmans cat.), num.text figs; ex-Moravian College Library with early plate on fr.pastedown, faint small oval stamp to t.p. & fr.blank fly-leaf, which also has early ink lib.no., no external lib.markings; internally otherwise clean, tight and indeed substantially unopened; covers clean & minimally worn bar sl.sp.end rubbing but rather dull spine. A very acceptable copy of this Psychology classic.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 1st ed. . Olive Cloth. VG+ for age and size/No Jacket (assume none issued). 15 Cm x 22 Cm. Vol.1.:xx+616, Vol.2.: xii+590; each inscribed on recto of front blank fly leaf: T.W.Bunnett - 604 W.115 St.NYC' with a further 3 ll. definition of 'Philosophy', otherwise both volumes internally clean, tight & unmarked, Vol.1 gutter open before half-title but has not affected tightness of binding, Vol.2 only has a few light brown spots through to p.viii of little significance. Covers both generally clean and unworn (hardly any wear to extremities beyond very slight bumping to some corners), very light surface rubbing in places to Vol.2, a few trivial marks and hints of dustiness to top edges. In general then an exceptionally good set of non-library provenance. As a bonus are two rather raggedly excised magazine articles slipped in (now in a plastic slip-sleeve): William James 'The Powers of Man' from the Nov.1907 American Monthly Magazine,… Read More

New Y etc: Scribner's, 1908. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. VG for age/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 18.5 Cm. xv+224, dark tinted top edge; internally generally clean and unmarked but hint of edge browning throughout and occ. brown spotting to margins; covers generally clean and minimally worn but spine a tad dull. Introductory coverage of psychological topics from senses to temperament and language, expounding a mainly experimental approach but no text figures. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Reprint? (copyright-1890) . Brown Cloth. VG-. 16 Cms x 22.5 Cms. xii+426; ornate bookplate of Homer H.Dubs to front endpaper, paper splitting to front gutter, partly closed with tear repair tape, verso front endpaper and recto facing blank fly heavily tanned, as are same pages at end, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean, bright and minimally worn covers (nick top spine, faint whitish mark to back of little import),

London: Longmans Green & Co, 1894. 1st Edition . Dark Brown Cloth. Good+. 16.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xiii+676+16 (pub.list), v.occ.text fig.; dated sig.of eminent historian of science R.M.Young top fr.blank fly-leaf, cancelled sig.+address of previous owner 'Afred Anderton' below this, latter sig.repeated twice verso half-title and once fr.free endpaper, barely visible as endpapers are black, Young's pencilled underlining & marginalia through to p.60, ink underlining on pp.74/5, v.occ.marking elsewhere; clean and tight otherwise with good gutters; covers clean with only routine rubbing of extremeties but sm.nick centre top sp.

London: Charles Griffin. 1st British Edition . Red Cloth. Good/very Good. 16.5 Cms x 23 Cms. Vol.1: xvi+312+76 (pub.list), num.text figs; Vol.2: ix+558, num.text figs. ex-lib.: both vols have labels on fr. pastedowns, two sm.stamps verso fr. free endpaper and top fly, v.sm.stamp verso t.p. & end text, slightly messy label & pocket remnants rear free endpaper & pastedown. Internally otherwise clean, tight and unmarked in good covers: clean, minimally worn, sl.sp.end rubbing, no lib.markings.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co , 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -/G+. Green cloth with gilt sp. lettering, clean and unworn but edges faded and all faintly blotchy. vii + 120, 11 photo ills on 9 plates ex-pagination, one in text; clean and unmarked but number of pages have tanning, several severe. Clipped jacket generally clean but edges and spine tanned, latter quite badly + a small brown splash (?) outline, also some edge rubbing, small nicks and small chip bottom spine, will internally close the nicks and add protective sleeve when ordered. Scarce with sleeve in any condition. Does not adopt a fortune-telling approach but rather a psychological diagnostic one.14 cm x 22 cm

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine-/VG-. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. x+233; clean tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers; unclipped jacketgenerally clean though spine slightly marked and discoloured, thin chip across top spine and slightly onto top front cover, small nick bottom front. Author based at University of Melbourne. Uncommon in U.K. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good+. Bright red gilt-lettered cloth with a small faded patch top spine above jacket chip and slight bump top front outer corner. ix + 86, 3 full page photos, majprity of text after p.14 is Chinese text, much in red and black and some just re, this broken with English translations or comments (e.g. pp. 41-53). Illustrated unclipped jacket is clean but much edge-rubbed with a few chips, will add protective sleeve when iordered. 13 cm x 22 cm

London: The Philadelphia Association, 1971. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Printed purple wrapper, near pristine but hint of sp. fading. 19 pp., 1974-dated sig. top 1st page, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. First printing of 1969 pub. by the Association of Family Caseworkers and the Philadelphia Association, this reprint by latter alone. 14.5 cm x 22 cm

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. 5th reprint (1st-1970) . Paperback. Good+. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. vii+282; internally clean, tight and unmarked, cover has crease top front outer corner and a smaller one half-way down fore-edge, all outer corners very slightly curled, faint browning to back edges, small price-label cenre back. The importance of this work, originating in a now legendary 1965 philosophy of science colloquium, is hard to overstate - essentially it launched the philosophy of science revolution of the late 20th century triggered by Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions', with a clutch of the most important figures in the field, young (Feyerabend, Lakatos) and old (Popper, Toulmin) offering their critiques and qualifications of Kuhn's position, with Kuhn gamely opening and closing the proceedings. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 248 pp.; 1946-dated sig.top front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean and virtually unworn but broad band of fading across bottom front. Includes chapters on wheat, sugar, coffee, cotton, rubber, tin, copper and oil, mostly early 20th century production and price figures, with tables and graphs. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. 1st rep., (1st-1914) . Red Cloth. Good. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. x+344, 93 text figs; sig. 'A.E.Newton' top fr.endpaper, his ink-written academic address recto rear endpaper (Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester' and notes on verso, 2 small pages of mathematical notes slipped in, these by the late David Newton (Emerituus Prof.of Physics at Lancaster University); otherwise internally clean and tight, top edge has small ink-mark and dustiness, covers clean and sound but top edge spine rubbed, short nick top back jooint and slight rubbing to both joints