Search Results: Titles starting with I from Douglas Books

London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -/Good. Blue cloth with gilt sp. lettering, no obvious faults. 380 pp.; clean, tight and unmarked but marred by light tanning patches to t.p. and scattered tanning spots elsewhere, particularly to final leaf and more extensively to 2 blank leaves before end-paper. Unclipped jacket is clean with hint of top-edge rubbing but heavily tanned across top front edge and lower front joint, while sp. also lightly tanned but with odd heavier spots, top back edge and joint also thinly affected. An autobiography of the founder of Cybernetics. 14 cm x 22 cm

London: Faber & Faber, 1932. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. VG-/No Jacket. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. 305 pp., small 1945-dated sig. top half-title, main problem is foxing, occ. quite heavy, to verso front endpaper, very faintly to t.p.but heavy to top of verso and facing page, verso rear endpaper and end pastedown also extensively, but lightly, affected, trace also to recto front endpaper, flecking also to uncut fore-edge and top edge, main text quite unaffected, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean and unworn. Apparently extremely scarce. Detailed autobiographcal account of the case and male writer's treatment in which free association technique was a major approach. I cannot remember where I got hold of this. 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: Pall Mall Press, 1970. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Fine (-)/Good+. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. x+373; virtually pristine but prev. owner's small gilt label top front endpaper, clipped jacket is clean but edge-rubbed (inc. spine ends), will add protective sleeve when ordered.

Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1965. 1st ed. . Grey Cloth. Good-VG/No Jacket (none Issued?). 17.5 Cms x 24 Cms. ix+303+(1, notice); this would be very good were the end gutters not cracking exposing netting before t.p. and, slightly less severely, between pp.302/3, I suspect this is a production fault, signed on t.p. 'To my colleague Joshua Berier - with kind regards - N. Schipkowensky Sofia 15.XI.1967', despite this the words 'Review Copy' are inscr.top fr.free endpaper; covers clean, bright and minimally worn. Slipped in is a sheaf of 9 half-folded leaves of carbon-copies of reviews of author's other works: 2 pages by H.Ellenberger on 'Pathologische Reaktionen der Personlichkeit Vol.1' (1960), and two copies of another 2 pp. by him apparently on Vol.2 (both for American Journal of Psychiatry), Oscar Diethelm 2 pp. on 'Schwachsinn und Verbrechen' for same journal, and a single page by G.Potzl on a 1938 work (in German).

London: William Heinemann & Medical Books, 1961. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 16.5 Cms x 24.5 Cms. 313 pp. f/piece woodcut following Contents, portrait plates intermittently throughout; internally clean tight & unmarked in clean covers marred only by corner bumping. Deals with medical views etc. of Greek philosophers period down to Sophists (5th century B.C.E.) with some coverage of Plato & Aristotle. Extensive quotations in Greek+English translation. No publishing date but BL catalogue gives 1961. 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: Adam & Charles Black, 1909. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. viii+307; small gilt ownership label top front pastedown, small early sig. top half-title otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked bar very occasional small brown spot, fore-edge also has a few brown flecks; covers clean and unworn, spine just a tad dull perhaps. An anhtropology, historical and cross-cultural survey of the topic from an evolutionary perspective. Book dedicated to Francis Galton. 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 etc. : Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Dark maroon covers with gilt sp.lettering, unworn but badly affected by mould-induced pigment loss to bacl fore-edge and fr. lower outer corner, sp. region and half top fr.faded. xv + 228; outer sides of end-papers tanned, 1949-dated sig. top fr. end-paper,very faint traces of pencilling top fr. paste-down. 1st pub. in German in 1917, this is from 9th German edition. An important and influential theological work, iargely resionsible for introducing the concept of 'numinosity', approprated byJung Jung, into English theological discourse. 1st English ed. very scarce. Despite back cover problem an excellent working/ reference copy. 14.5 cm x 22 cm

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. 1st ed. . Printed red cloth. Good-VG. 12 Cms x 16.5 Cms. x+170, slipped in series flyer; recto fr.endpaper browned, paper splitting to top rear end-gutter exposing netting but remains quite tight & secure, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers generally clean & unworn but quite faded to sp. & edges. Issued in the collectible Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894. 4th ed. (1st-1893 ?) . Brown Cloth. VG(-)/No Jacket (assume none issued). 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. floral endpapers, author list+author photo+small tipped in printed appeal from author for written testimonials+t.p.+163+5 pp. puffs for other Wood works+another; 1920 dated gift inscription to front blank fly, front endpaper & pastedown browning to edges and tiny chip top endpaper outer corner, gutter cracked but secure with short tears to top and bottom of front endpaper beside this, rear pastedown and endpaper in similar condition but somewhat better than front; covers excellent with gilt lettering, clean and unworn. Endpaper issues are only real problem. 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: Watts Thinkers Library, 1948. 1st thus, 1st ed.-1941 . Hardcover. Fine-/No Jacket. 11 Cms x 16.5 Cms. Series no.119. endpapers have red lamp motif decoration, series list+xii+218, internally fine, covers just slightly marred by thin fading strips alongside spine (but not spine itself), much slighter fading top back edge and trivial black mark bottom spine. The red cloth cover, with silver spine lettering, is quite plain late series version with only small impressed 'Thinker' logo bottom front corner. This is perhaps the preferred edition as it has Heath's short but informative Introduction. Stebbing had died in 1943.

London: Phaidon Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Grey cloth binding with silver on black spine lettering. 224 pp. 10 ills on two 4 pp. blocks ex-pagination. No obvious faults. Unclipped jacket near fine but slight spine and top edge fading (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Eleven essays on a variety of topics including cultural history, fashion, Nazi radio propaganda, social sciences, and museums, as well a hacing a general concern with aesthetics. 18 cm x 25 cm

London: Methuen, 1921. 1st English ed., 1st German same year . Green Cloth. Good-VG for Age/No Jacket. 13 Cm X 19.5 Cm. xiv+167+8 (pub.list), 7 text diagrams & chart; prev.owners small sig.top fr. pastedown 'D.Newton' (the late David Newton, Emeritus, Prof. of Physics at Lancaster University), marginal tanning to endpapers, slight ingrained dustiness to top edge, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean, sp.slightly darkened, some faint patches of pigment loss along front joint, quite inoffensive, bottom front outer corner bumped. A very acceptable copy.

Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1812. 1st thus, (1st ed. -1784-1792)) . Hardcover. Good-VG. 13 Cm x 21 Cm. Half leather and marbled board covers, firm and recently conserved both spines relaid on leather, originally seriously end-chipped, generally clean but light to moderate edge-rubbing to most cover edges, top edge Vol.I back cover has thin strip of marbled paper loss and small patch of faint furface rubbing. 1st edition with Heinruch Luden's 'Einleitung' . Vol.I. : lxii (Einleitung to lxv)+431; Vol.II: vi+513, all edges blue; Both Vols have heraldic plate of W.G. Peene to front pastedown (with erased motto!), both tanned to varying extents more or less throughout but no deterioration of paper and legibility unaffected, occ. corner creasing (now unfolded). Seems to be the favoured edition due to Luden's contribution. Uncommon outside Germany. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Read More

London: Tavistock Press, 1966. 1st UK ed. . Green Cloth. VG-Fine/G-VG. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. xiii+383, top edge green, publisher's review request slipped in; previous owner's small gilt address label to front endpaper, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean, bright virtually unworn covers (very slight hints of spine end bumping), unclipped jacket generally clean but spine browned with a couple of small spots, top edge & spien ends rubbed (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.

Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1931. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Good-VG/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 21 Cm. xiv+249, 6 unf.charts; sm.neat eraseable pencil sig.front free endpaper (F.R.Cowell) dated 1932, occ.sm.eraseable pencilled marginal lines and marginalia to latter part of book but these innocuous and easily eliminated, otehrwise internally clean and tight; covers clean but sp. faded, patchy pigment loss along fr.joint and sl.corner bumping. Slipped in are 2 carbon copies of a review (just a couple of lines over 2pp), presumably by F.R.Cowell, top r.h. corners have rust-marks from pins which I have replaced by staples, also a compliments slip from Cambridge University Press with a few notes on the back, Cambridge UP having been the UK publishers although this not mentioned in printed text. Uncommon in UK. An interesting exercise in statistics applied to behavioural and social phenomena, not usually figuring in histories of Psychology or Sociology. The full title continues: '. the 1927 Session of… Read More

London etc. : Sage Publcations, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Fault free covers. vii + 180; small prev. owner's small sig. top half-title (no end-papers issued) occasional very light pencil underlining easily erasable. Chapters on a range of aspects of the topic inc. gender, prejudice and health as well as theoretical discussions. 13.5 x 21.5 cm

London: Kegan Paul, Psyche Miniatures General Series, 1927. 1st Edition . Cream Boards, Red Cloth Spine. Good+. 10 cms x 15 .5 Cms. 119+(1)(ad. for 'Psyche'), ex-lib. with author's 'presentation to the library' plate fr. pastedown, inscrip in tiny handwriting top corner fr.free endpaper and v. faint lib.stamp along outer edge of this, no other lib. marks, internally clean, tight & otherwise unmarked; boards a little dust-darkened, corners bumped, sp.label has a few nicks, no lib.label on sp. Primarily concerned with allergies of various kinds, has short 1st chap. on psychosomatic aspect.

New York, London: John Wiley, Chapman & Hall, 1955. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt sp. lettering, sl. hint of rubbing to extremities otherwise clean and unworn. ix + 267, text ills throughout variously photos and diagrams etc., numbered by chapter; short red sig. top fr. pastedown otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. 14 cm x 21.5 cm

Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, 1987. 2nd Ed. . Printed Card in jackets. Fine/VG. 15.5 Cms x 21.5 Cms. Lacking 1935 Congress Vol.1. Vol.II (Paris 1935): pp.533-794, clean, tight & unmarked, jacket unworn but two sm.brown stains to fr. beside joint and hint of sp.darkening; Vol.I (1937): 229+(1, index), 8 pp.photos ex.pagination; Vol. II (1937): 447, 19 pp.phots ex-pagination; Vol.III (1937): col.f/piece+504, clean, tight & unmarked, jacket clean bar a faint brown mark to fr., top edge sl.rubbed. All vols. seem extremely scarce.

London: National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, 1951. 1st ed. (April) . Coloured boards. Fine-/Fine-. 12.5 Cm x 18.5 Cm. xii+72; small sig.dated month of publication (23.4.51) top front endpaper otherwise clean, tight anf unmarked, there is however a faint strip of tanning to half-title and final page off-set from jacket (clearly slipped in after the endpapers); the 'jacket' is a transparent onion-skin sleeve in remarkably complete and clean condition, cannot add a protective sleeve to this obviously but will provide a film-fronted pocket. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.