Search Results: Authors starting with V from Douglas Books

London & New York: Academic Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Green Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xi+431, num.text figs & tables. Private owner's plate fr. pastedown otherwise internally pristine in clean unworn covers, unclipped jacket a trifle rubbed at edges, back has some dust marks, otherwise excellent.

London: Methuen, 1947. 4th Ed 'Revised' . Light Blue cloth. VG-. 13 Cm X 19 Cm. viii+106, faint browning to outer sides of endpapers otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; clean unworn covers, sp.perhaps just a tad dull. 1st pub.1940.

London: Christophers, 1932. 4th ed. (rep.3rd revised 1928 ed.) . Dark Blue Cloth. VG(+)/G-VG for age. xiv+162; small 1946-dated sig. top front endpaper, a few brown spots to top edge and fewer, more faintly, to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in good clean unworn covers, unclipped jacket generally clean but a number of short edge nicks/tears, spine & top back sun-faded. 1st published in 1921. A very good reading/reference copy of this succsseful British 'New Psychology' text. 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: Royal Holloway College, University of London, 1997. 1st ed. . green card. Fine-. 17 Cms x 24.5 Cms. 24 pp., 17 text figs.; only flaw is sun-fading to outer and top edges. An admirable little account of Psychology's history at the famous women-only college of London University, absorbed in 1985 into Royal Holloway College and moved from Regent's Park to the RHC campus. 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.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1926. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. Originally a Ph.D. thesis at University of London. xix+236; internally excellenbt bar very faint trace of browning to t.p., covers clean butpigment loss to lower front corner, slight fading to spine and top spine rubbed, corners also a tad bumped. Structured more around religious topics than psychological ones, exploring the implications of Psychology for these. 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. . .

New York: Nova Science Publishers , 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket (as issued). Glossy illustrated boards. vii + 233, numerous text figs and ills numbered by chapter, slipped in relevant printed out e-mail reply by author to academic associate whose original brief question (regarding Lucy Fildes, another British woman psychologist) follows. Pristine in all respects. A very weil produced and attractively designed book. Quite uncommon. (Edgell's dates: 1871-1948) 18 cm x 26 cm

London: W.B.Clive, University Tutorial Press, 1922. 4th Imp. (1st-1920) . Green Cloth. VG for age/No Jacket (none Issued?). 12.5 Cm x 18 Cm. x+195, 11 figs; prev.owner's sm.gilt label top front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, faint hints of browning to endpapers; covers generally clean though a few faint surface marks, a few small patches of pigment loss along bottom edge of little consequence, a few hints of rubbing to joints but otherwise spine ends and corners unrubbed. 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, 1945. 2nd ed. year of publication . Red Cloth. VG-/Fair/good. 12.5 Cm x 18.5 Cm. xiii+68, num.test ills.; prev.owner's sm.gilt label top front pastedown, stamps of Kent Education Committee to fr.endpaper, t.p., and rear endpaper, small easily eraseable pencil ticks & marginalia in a number of places, covers clean and unworn; jacket just about complete but badly torn diagonally across back, partially refixed, several brown stains to front, worth salvaging for wrapaound text and booklist on back. 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: T.C. & E.C. Jack 'The People's Books'. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket (as issued). Green cloth series binding with black lettering etc. 94 pp. + (2, 1913 series list), 14 text figs; gutter hinly opening before t.p., now sealed with tear-repair tape, prev. owners small gilt top corner fr. labels and same owner's sig. top fr. end-paper, which is also centrally tanned quie heavily, as is verso of rear one. Undated but given as no.70 in 116-long series list, so presumably 1911-1912. Valentine was an important pioneer in British Psychology with wide-ranging interests including Educational Psychology. Uncommon. 11 cm x 16.5 cm

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942. 1st ed. . Printed Issue papers. Good+. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. 222+table de matieres, textblock edges tanned but otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, tiny hole to half-title, covers in early onionskin protective wrapper are grey with extensive edge tanning, top front corner has triangular chip (4 cms x .75 cms) across top edge. French dealers' listings have the covers as bright yellow but no sign of that with this copy. Bergson list on back cover. Apparently uncommon in France and very scarce elsewhere.

Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1997. 1st Thus . Glossy p/back. Fine. 13.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. bilngual edition 64 pp. French text on left facing parallel English text. Only flaw I can see is a small white price-label ghost to bottom back cover. Front cover has Renoir painting of 'Young Girl Bathing'. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Barcelona: Llibres a l'Abast, 1968. 1st ed. . Glossy Paperback. Fine-. 12 Cms x 18 Cms. 191+(3, 'Sumari'); 1970 dated inscrip. by Max Wheeler (eminent British Catalan scholar) otherwise as new.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 1st ed. . Glossy Paperback. Fine (-). 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xi+488; only flaw is slight outward curling to front outer corners. A major work starting with considerations of philosophy of science and then tracking the title issue historically from 19th century ideas of suggestion through figures such a Janet, J.M.Baldwin, the U.S. pragmatists, G.H.Mead and Vygotsky to post-war thinkers such as Wertsch and Moscovici. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Worcester, Mass.: Francis L.Hiatt School of Psychology Clark University. 1st ed. . Printed White Card. VG-Fine. 20.5 Cms x 27.5. 47 pp, 50 pp, 59 pp., 56 pp, 39 pp. respectively, all with several ills.; lib.donation label t.p. Vol.I (1) and verso t.p. Vol.I (1) & Vol.II (1), All near fine otherwise but Vol.I(1) has faint incipient edge-browning to cover and faint suggestion of vertical crease to back cover. Each of the five issues is devoted to a particular eminent psychologist usually with 4 essays on different aspects of their work and career by various scholars, Vol. III(1) has only 2 contributors however. Figures covered are: Karl Buhller, Karl Duncker, Tamara Dembo, Zing-Yang Kuo and Alexander F. Chamberlain. All scarce apparently. 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.

Washington (D.C.): Gallaudet UNiversity Press, 1993. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine-/Fine. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xii+301, 22 ills. in text; book near fine but very small green spot to bottom edge of textblock and faint suggestion of outward bowing to covers; uncut jacket fine and will add protective sleeve when ordered. A wide range of historical discussions from numerous countries of aspects of the topic including education, sign language and pro-deaf political action. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Amhurst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 2nd ed. with new Afterword 1st-1983 . Glossy p/b. Good+. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 331 pp.; internally clean, tight and unmarked but faint rippling to some pages, corner creaing to top front endpaper and rear endpaper, covers clean but front and corners curled, slightly affecting text-block and top back outer corner creased, verso front cover fore-edge has thin brown line consistent with water stain. Uncommon in UK.

The Hague: Dr W. Junk B.V., Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation Wageningen, 1975. 1st Edition . Black Cloth. Fine-/Very Good. 15.5 Cms x 24 Cms. 302, num.figs & tables; internally pristine, dust marks on top edge, v.sl.corner bumping to covers; clean unclipped jacket marred only by an inconsequential sl. wrinkle top sp. and sl.rubbing top corners. A wide-ranging compendium of papers on topics as varied as the role of bacteria in energy flow and tropical fisheries management. second editor's inscription to E.B.Worthington on fr. endpaper. 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.

New York: Four Winds Press, 1973. 1st ed. . White illustrated cloth. Fine-/VG-. 18.5 Cms x 26 Cms. 239 pp., illustrated throughout, frequently full page photos, all unnumbered; a near pristine copy in clipped jacket, minimally worn but widespread slight loss of surface sheen. Focuses primarly on European palaeolithic cave art and carvings, mostly French. Apparently no ISBN number issued, for this 1st edition at least. 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: Faber & Faber, 1969. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine/VG. 13.5 Cm x 21 Cm. 120 pp.; slipped in publisher's review request+signed journal review request to named academic 'for about 600 words, by 15.3.70'; book flawless, unclipped jacket, now sealed in rotective wrapper, has very sliught edge-wear. A very accessible account apprently by an ex-student of Wittgenstein's (to judge by opening few pp.). 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: The Modern Library, 1925. 2nd ed.? (1st-1924 ?) . Soft green cloth. VG-Fine/No Jacket. 11 Cms x 16.5 Cms. dec.endpapers, xviii+383, small sig.top front endpaper, early bookseller's small blue label bottom front pastedown, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers, top edge a little dusty. An interesting collection of extracts from the writings of 15 contemporary eminent (or less so!) psychoanalysts (in broadest sense): Freud, E.Jones, Ferenczi, Brill, Pfister, Jeliffe, Stekel (twice), Everett D.Martin, Rivers, Beatrice Hinkle, Jung, Bjerre, Emanuel and the editor who also supplies the Introduction, also a Glossary at end. A little uncommon now. Note: quoted shipping rate,s are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.