Search Results: Authors starting with M from Douglas Books

Valence: E. Marc Aurel, 1860. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good+. 11 Cms x 18 Cms. xi+364 (363/4 notice & list), fr. hinge paper split internally, but still tight, light brown spotting to endpapers & edges, otherwise clean & unmarked; Black leatherised covers clean & undamaged, sl. corner & edge rubbing, sm. chip in surface paper bottom fr. edge of little consequence. Apparently scarce. 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.

Newark: Proscenium Press, 1977. 1st ed. . Glossy card. VG+. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. 32 pp.; internally fine, covers unworn and generally clean but a small faint brown price-label ghost bottom front and some small faint brown spots of little consequence by top front spine, autor's photo-portrait on front (printed in green). Very scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Ambleside: Freshwater Biological Association. 1st Edition . Printed Card. VG. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. R.Douglas Cooper. Four Freshwater Biological Association Scientific Publications: Nos.13, 14, 19 & 20 (1954--1961). No.13: 1960 2nd corrected ed. (Macan's A Key to the British Fresh- and Brackish Gastropods), ill.by R.Douglas Cooper 47 pp.with num.ills; No.14: 1954 1st ed. (Mann & Watson's A Key to British Freshwater Leeches with notes on their Ecology), col.f/piece+21 pp. num.ills, pp.9-12 (one sm.gathering) disbound prob.due to staple rusting; No.19 1960 1st ed. (Hynes, Macan & Williams's A Key to the British Species of Crustacea: Malacostrata occurring in fresh water), 36 pp.num text ills; No.20: 1961 1st ed.(Macan's A Key to the Nymphs of the British species of Ephemeroptera); 63 pp. num.ills. All clean, bright and unmarked bar prev.owner's sm.sig. top fr.corner of covers, staple-rusting to No.14 only. Disbound gathering in No.14 only flaw.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1870. Unstated, 1st-1848 . Gilt Dec. black leather. VG for age. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. Vol.1 has f/piece Macualay protrait with tissue guard, fr. pastedown has large gift plate of The Law Society of the United Kingdom dated Trinity Term 1873, facing endpaper has 1936 dated gift letter to 'Mary' 'from her loving grandfather', but sig.illegible; all endpapers marbled with gelt dec. borders, all edges gilt, all have small binder's label 'J.Low, 29 Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane' (to bottom fr. pastedowns except in Vol.1 which has it at back), all vols have some scattered tanning to inner sides of endpapers and end blank fly leaves, otherwise all internally clean, tight and unmarked; attractive gilt decorated black leather bindings with round gilt Law Society logo centre front, all however have varying degrees of rubbing to extremeties (occ. a little heavy), also to a number of spine panel ridges, again to varying degrees (heaviest to Vol.2), small… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. Fine/VG(-). 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Issued in the University of Glasgow Social and Economic Studies New Series. 364 pp.+(4 pub.list); virtually pristine inside and out, unclipped jacket very slightly rubbed to top edge with nick top spine, which is just a shade darkened, main fault is a small scribbled address above author's name on front (74 St James's Street to be precise followed by illegible brief squiggle) (will apply protective wrapper when ordered). Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Academy Editions, 1970. 1st Edition . Printed Card. Fine/No Jacket. 16.5 Cms x 25 Cms. Adrian Brewin. 21. No.175 of 250 limited edition on Glastonbury paper. A near pristine copy, although stitching v. sl. weak. 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.

Dublin & Waterford: M.H.Gill, 1909. 1st Edition . Red Cloth. Good-VG. 15.5 Cms x 22 Cms. Vol.1: xxiii+487; Vol.2: xv+574; both vols have private heraldic lib.plate of Sir Henry Bellingham on fr. pastedowns and cancelled Fisher Society Library labels on facing free endpapers, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean & unworn but spines faded, more so on Vol.2 which also has faded strip top fr. and a darker mark mid.sp.which may be a lib.label ghost, though no sign of this on Vol.1. A nice copy. Allow for some extra postage, weighs over 2 kilos/4 lb.7 oz. net.

Johannesburg: Oxford University Press for University of the Witwatersrand, 1937. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Good-VG. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xiv+328, num.tables, histograms etc.; Pietmaritzburg bookseller's sm.label bottom fr.pastedown, thin strip of marginal browning to last 5 leaves and recto rear endpaper where it spreads to become light foxing across top and outer margin - mostly very faint though, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked internally; covers generally clean, top.sp.sl.rubbed, bottom more so. Despite faults, which do not really amount to much, a very acceptable copy nudging VG rating. Uncommon outside South Africa, this was an important and, for the time, highly enlightened work in which MacCrone advanced a 'frontier hypothesis' to explain rabid racism and invoked Freudian concepts where appropriate, in some ways an anticipation of the 'authoritarian personality' concept.

London etc.: George G. Harrap, 1932. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. VG(+)/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 345 pp., top edge blue; internally clean, tight & unmarked, early bookseller's small label bottom front pastedown, brown flecking to textblock fore-edge, covers clean, bright and virtually unworn. A very nice copy. Covers a wide range of religion-related beliefs, superstitions and myths including some coverage of heresies such as Catharism and 'The Medieval Fairy Creed'. 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 Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. 3rd printing (1st-1996) . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. 16 cms x 24 cms x 5 cms. xii+692, 44 illustrations in text; virtually pristine copy in similar unclipped jacket, will add protective sleeve when ordered.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1970. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. Fine/Fine. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. 108 pp., immaculate bar small brown mark centre verso front fly and facing half-title, of little significance, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers; unclipped jacket clean and unworn. An exceptionally good copy. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Washington (D.C.): Government Printing House, 1902. 1st reprint, month of publication . Brown Cloth. Good-VG. 14.5 Cm x 23 Cm. 166pp.+orig.wrappers bound in, ex-University of London but only their heraldic plate fr.pastedown, sm.'Depository' stamp top verso fr.free endpaper + 2 sm.round early stamps verso t.p. & end text, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked, binding actually near Fine with dated gilt lib.logo at bottom. University of London bindings at this time were of particularly high quality . This work was officially issued as Document No.400 by the U.S.Senate (57th Congress 1st Session). It is a curious work with some discussion of e.g. hypnotism and child study and health of college women before getting into 'Criminology' on p.76, the bibliography of child study is extensive, pp.117-157.

Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1943. Rep.of 1937 2nd ed., 1st-1933 . Green Cloth. Good-. 14.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. 98, large unf.chart, few text figs, some marginal creasing and nicks through to p.11, sm. exposure of netting bottom fr. hinge, prev.owner's sig. and red sticker fr.free endpaper. Covers clean & undamaged bar a few spots. Dusty handwritten makeshift jacket on verso of nautical chart of Tuaheni Point (which I discover is on North Island, New Zealand). 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. SALE PRICE

London: The Bibliographical Society, 1952. 1st Ed . quarter cloth and grey boards. VG/No Jacket (none Issued?). 18 Cms x 22 Cms. f/piece+xvii+84, 14 further ills 5 being ex-pag plates, 6 being of various t.p.s of Leviathan), unopened throughout; outer sides of endpaper heavily tanned plus a few flecks to top edge of textblock otherwise internally clean, tight and completely unmarked; grey board coversclean and unworn but front of white cloth spine region has light tanning spots and spine itself a shade darkened, all quite unworn.

London: Watts Thinker's Library, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illustrated brown cloth, first version with 'Thinker' logo centre bottom front between Greek columns, no obvious faults but spine just a shade darkened. xv++142 + (2, Rationalist Press details and membership form), no obvious faults. Selections from author's unpublished lectures as Quain Professor (University College London) 1911-1913. Discusses 6 trials: Socrates, Knights Templars, Jean D'Arc, Bruno. Galileo, Servetus plus 'Trials for Wicthcraft'. 11 cm x 16.5 cm

London: G.& W.B. Whittaker, 1819. 7th revised and corrected . Textured leather. Good+. 12.5 Cm x 18 Cm. viii+unpag.main text (signatures through to R 2); recently rebound in textured leather with new endpapers but no lettering on covers; my sm.label top fr.pastedown, orig.endpapers & t.p. foxed, with frequent but light spotting throughout, t.p.has faint water-stain across lower outer quarter and v.early sig. at top, easily eraseable pencil lines beside many entries - wearied of doing so myself but significantly reduced them! - a tiny thin cut piercing or denting lower part of pp. from the TO entries onwards, as if from a stab by a small sharp knife, but this actually of genuinely minimal significance, sl.gutter opening between pp. v & vi, which rebinding has secured. Quite acceptable despite faults.

Glasgow: Robert Maclehose of the Society, 1911. 1st ed. . blue printed issue covers. Good-VG for age and genre. 14 Cms x 21 Cms. 111 pp.; internally clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean but spine and edges tanning, small chip top spine and 2cm chip to bottom, this now sealed with transparent tear-repair tape, insignificant crease across bottom front outer corner, a small, quite faint early red lib.stamp (Bibb.Soc.Ros.in Angle. No.173Q] top front outer corner which is genuinely quite inoffensive. An interesting number being partly devoted to William James (who had recently died), the 3 papers being a 'Commemorative Address: William James and Frank Podmore' by H.Arthur Smith, M'Dougal (sic) 'In Memory of William James' and Muirhead on 'William James as a Philosopher', Podmore is also dealt with in Mrs Henry Sidgwick's 'Frank Podmore and Psychical Research'. In addition there is a 12 page 'Report on a Further Series of Sittings with Eusapia Palladino in… Read More

London: Methuen, 1953. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. VG-/G-VG. 12.5 Cm x 19 .00 Cm. ix+262, 3 pp.plates ex-pagination; apart from a small Blackwell's sticker to front pastedown the only fault is that the covers, though clean and unworn, are rather dull; unclipped jacket has short tear top front by spine (now repaired), slight spine browning and other minor surface marks and edge rubbing. A useful overview of the state of British Psychology in early 1950s, with much on applied and educational psychology and coverage of most other fields, authors include Pear on social psychology, Eysenck on social attitudes, Himmelweit on personality tests and Zangwill on psychological research in field of neurology plus Frisby, Rodger, Banks, Drever and less well remembered others. 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: Methuen, 1937. 2nd enlarged, 1st-1932 . Blue Printed Cloth. VG(-)/Good-VG. 11 Cms x 17 Cms. viii+112; private ex-lib.plate to front pastedown, extensive pencil underlining throughout, otherwise internally clean in clean unworn covers, a trifle faded at exposed spine tips; jacket clean for age, slight edge-wear, nicking and chipping, price label lower spine partly obscuring author name, small price clip top front wraparound which might be as sold in light of replacement price label to spine. Scarce with jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered). 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: Macfadden Publications Inc., 1926. 1st ed.- . Blue Cloth. Good (+)/No Jacket. 13.5 Cm x 19.5 Cm. f/piece (photoportrait of author)+xiv+(2)+168; front gutter cracked exposing netting but quite secure, 1933-dated sig.to front endpaper, light browning to much of t.p., otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, front cover with gilt title & author's facs. sig. clean with bottom corner rubbed, spine dull with label adhesion ghosts, sl.end rubbing, back cover clean and unworn. Spine label ghosts seem to be private in origin as no indications of library provenance. Extremely scarce, no other copies on main websites when listed. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.