Search Results: Authors starting with N from Douglas Books

New York etc.: McGraw-Hill, 1950. 1st ed. . dark maroon hessian. VG/No Jacket. 15.5 Cm x 23 Cm. x+324, numerous text figs of various kinds, inc.photos, numbered by chapter; innocuous small (15 mm) round stamp of Birmingham Assay Office Library bottom front endpaper plus fragment of what is probably a bookseller's small label, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean and unworn, spine slightly sunfaded, thin strip across top front also sun-faded but a little more heavily.

Reading, MA etc: Addison-Wesley, 1969. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG+/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. xi+291; private ex-lib. label to front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in bright unworn covers. The phrase 'speech-communication' refers, in this context, to communicating via making speeches e.g. in debates, not to everyday verbal conversation. Apparently very scarce in U.K. 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: Oxford University Press for the International Institute of African Languages & Cultures, 1946. 2nd printing (1st-1942) . Dark Blue Cloth. VG-Fine/Good (-). 14 Cms x 22 Cms. f/piece+xv+420+2 unf.maps, 17 photo-plates ex-pagination each with 2 images, occ. text diagram; internally clean, tight and unmarked bar brown strips to outer sides of endpapers off-set from jacket wraparounds, covers clean & unworn but bottom spine just slightly faded; clipped jacket clean but browning to spine and edges, chip top spine just missing title, bottom spine also rubbed and has what appears to be a faint tape ghost and black mark (will add protective sleeve when ordered). It is actually a longstanding bone of bibliographic contention whether a 2nd reprinting is still a 1st edition ! A very nice copy of this classic study of the culture, economics and social relations of the Nupe. Although jacket is faulty it seems that jackets in any condition are very scarce. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are… Read More

London: Cohen & West, 1963. 4th Impression . Black Cloth. VG(+)/VG-. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. xi+426; small sig.to front endpaper, small green Foyles sticker front pastedown, otherwise clean tight and unmarked, covers clean & unworn; clipped jacket fairly clean, top spine nicked otherwise excellent. . A good copy of this important work with much on psychology as well as anthropology. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

London: Cohen & West, 1951. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. VG-/Good-. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. xi+426; 1951 dated sig. & place by previous owner to front endpaper, brown strips offset from wrapaounds to outer sides of endpapers, darker at back, otherwise clean tight and unmarked, covers clean & unworn bar sl.rubbing bottom spine; unclipped jacket fairly clean, but spine sl.darkened and edges somewhat ragged. A good working copy of this important work with much on psychology as well as anthropology.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. ix+195; virtually pristine copy in similar jacket, will add protective sleeve to jacket when ordered. Includes discussion of Jansenism and Arnauld's correspondence with Malebranche. 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: Callow and Wilson, 1829. 1st UK ed., 1st German -1822 . Cloth-backed grey boards. 11.5 Cms x 19 Cms. Main text-block is clean, unmarked and quite firm, though some gatherings incipiently opening, covers dull and a tad soiled in places, with grey paper begninning to lift from boards ina few places, edges relatively good for age, label missing from spine whichis very dull - text-block rating VG- for age, covers Fair+ only, their main merit being that they are quite secure and end-gutters both sound. xxiii+166+(2, pub,'s medical list), no illustrations, an 1852 gift inscription verso t.p., 3 very faint lines of pencilled note to rear end-paper which are virtually illegible. Preface states that the 1822 German edition was in pamphlet form and that Rigby, who had visited Naegele at University of Heidelberg, had used author's manuscripts as well in writing this translation, so it is in a sense a 'First thus' edition.

New Haven: Yale University Press. Dept. of Anthropology. Publication Number 66, 1962. 1st ed. . Brown issue wrappers. VG-. 17 Cms x 24.5 Cms. 227 pp.; internally the only flaw is creasing to some lower outer corner tips; covers clean bar a sm.sig.top fr., sp. and back lower edge sun-faded. otherwise only wear is v.sl. curling top back outer corner & sp.end rubbing.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Issued as 'The Hampstead Clinic Psychoanalytic Library (Concept Research Group)' Volume IV. 233 pp.+ (2, pub.details and series titles list). Book virtually pristine, jacket, unclipped in protective wrapper, appears to be clean, tight & virtually unworn. 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: George Allen & Unwin, 1970. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG-Fine/VG-. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Issued as 'The Hampstead Clinic Psychoanalytic Library (Concept Research Group)' Volume III. 136 pp. top edge blue; small brown rectangular label ghost top front endpaper, very slight subbestion of rubbing bottom spine, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked; unclipped jacket in protective plastic sleeve is clean but spine ends a little rubbed, slight rubbing top and bottom front edges. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. 2nd Imp. . Soft cover. Good. Glossy soft-back cover clean but outer corners curling. ix + 321; frequent pencil or ink marginalia and underlining on pp.145-207, compounded by a stretch of brown (coffee?) staining tp bottom edge and outer corner top maximum height 1 cm but reducing to p. 33, but on outer corner tip only finally disappear on p.160 - though very tiny for much of this. A good working or reference copy only of this quite scarce work. 15 cm x 22,5 cm

Kandy, Ceylon (Sri Lanka): The Forest Hermitage, 1971. 1st ed. . White printed card. VG-Fine/VG. 14 Cms x 18 Cms. Date is that of Preface. vi+254+(2, errata), inc. author list pp.253-4; only fault is 6 marginal ink squiggles up to p.11, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, card covers clean and unworn but edge tanning to back; white printed jacket generally clean and unworn but a few edge nicks which I will close internally when ordered. The content is quite variegated including a few short poems and two stories, many epugrammatic sayings as well as longer passages of religious and/or philosophical character. Mostly dates from late 1950s. 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.

Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Oxford University Press, 1995. 1st Ed . Black Cloth. VG-/Fine (-). 15 Cm x 22 Cm. xii+275; light but sometimes extensive eraseable pencil underlining and marginal lines to some chapters otherwise clean, tight, with no ownership markings in clean unworn covers, pastedown paper blistering in places, clearly a production fault; jacket clean and unclipped, top edge slightly rubbed (will add protective sleeve when ordered).

New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Black cloth cover with silver sp. lettering. col. f/piece + 112, num. colour text ills, some gatherings on light yellow paper, red top border-lines. Pristine unclipped jacket (priced in $), will add protective sleeve when ordered. 13.5 cm x 20 cm

New York: HarperCollins (HarperOne), 2007. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Green cloth with gilt-lettered black cloth sp. region. xv1 (map across pp.x - xi opening) + 256, decorated chapter t.p.s. Unclipped jacket, will add protective sleeve when opened, puffs on back appear to have been elicited from scholars prior to publication. . Quite scarce especially in UK. All pristine.14.5 x 21.5 cm

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1951. 2nd Imp.1938 reprint, (1st-1836) . Orange Cloth. Fine/VG-. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Issued in the 'Library of Ecomics' series. This is the 1st, 1836, edition although it went through 6, the last being 1872. new t.p.+facs. original t.p.+viii+249 (all facs.) pp.227-239 are a reprint from Richard Whateley's 1836 'Elements of Logic' , p.240 is a bibliographic note, 241-243 'Headlines added to and altered in the second (and subsequent) editions', remainder is an index. Apparently very scarce with jacket despite the earlier reprint. 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: Macmillan & Co. 'under the sanction of the Cobden Club', 1871. 1st ed. . Brown gillt lettered cloth. Good (+) for age and genre. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. t.p.+Preface+tipped in errata slip+100; small fairly early ownership stamp top verso fr.enpaper, main problems are tanning to inners sides of endpaper (outer sides and pastedowns being brown), t.p. and final leaf of text with spots intermittently elsewhere, plus light marginal pencil lining intermittnely throughout with a 3 line bottom marginal note, incipient gutter opening between pp.96/7; covers would be very good but for a 2.5 cm. cloth tear to front joint, being otherwise clean and almost unworn. Presence of errata slip possibly a point in its favour.

Frankfurt am Main: Privately Printed, 1957. 1st Edition . Printed Card. Very Good-Fine. 14.5 Cm x 21 Cm. 96 pp. (inc 'Lebenslauf'), a clean, tight & unworn copy. Inaugural dissertation at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main. 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.

Chicago: Regent House, 1953. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. Fine/VG-. 13.5 Cm x 19.5 Cm. 101 pp.; book virtually pristine inside and out; top-clipped jacket generally clean and mostly not visibly worn, small chip top spine, outer corners all have old internal reinforcement although only front ones actually have any indication of a tear (notably top). A very hostile critique of contemporary U.S. psychoanalytic practice, and of the doctrine in general. 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: The New Sydenham Society , 1896. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Dark brown blind-stamped cl. with gilt sp. lettering and central Sydenham logo, near pristine. All edges red. Series half-title giving this as vol. CLVIII + 197 + 38 (Society's 1896 Annual Report with publication and members lists); unusually free of tanning spots for this series. Cholelithiasis better known as gall-stones. 14 cm x 22 cm