Search Results: Titles starting with S from Douglas Books

Bonn: Petri Hanstein, 1934. 1st Thus . Printed green Card. Very Good. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. 92 pp. clean, tight, unmarked, only flaws are sl.rubbing of extremeties and sm.chip bottom sp. 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: International Universities Press, 1952. 1st ed. . Salmon-red cloth. Fine (-)/VG-. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xv+207, bookseller's small label bottom front pastedown, top spine slightly rubbed, one outer edge has a short chip due to clumsy opening, with corresponding extending fragment to next edge. Unclipped, sealed, jacket generally clean but slight chipping to top spine and bottom back outer corner. An excellent copy of this unusual study of the novels of the famous 19th century neurologist/psychiatrist noted for his 'rest cure'. 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.

Oxford: Sheldon Theatre, 1736. 1st ed. . Marbled protective card. Fine. 12.5 cm x 20 Cm. t.p.+14 (Burton's latin dedicatory letter to'Reverendo viro Johanni Mather'+79 (translations of scriptural passages in Greek -pp.1, 43-50, Latin - pp.2-43, and English 51-79), no endpapers, an excellent clean, tight and unmarked text-block; clean and attractive modern marbled card covers with typed spine title 'Oxford Delectus 1736' , nearly unworn but a trifle rubbed to front joint and top spine. Apparent;ly very scarce anthology of anonymous student translation exercises set at Corpus Christi College, Oxford during the long Summer vacation.

London: T.Cadell & W. Davies, 1817. 21st edition 'with additions' . cloth-backed green boards. Fair. 8.5 Cms x 13.5 Cms. dedication+f/piece (engr.More portrait) , t.p.with enr.central ill.+200, uncut edges; fr.gutter gone leaving covers hanging from back, prev.owner's gilt label top fr.pastedown, what is curious though is that t.p. has the name 'James Esdaile' very neatly inscribed in outer margin, internally otherwise clean, tight & unmarked ;covers quite clean but fr.joint and top chipped, while only fixed along back joint as mentioned before. One obviously thinks it highly likely that this was the copy owned by Esdaile (1808-1859), later famous for using mesmerism/hypnosis for surgical anaesthetic purposes while in India, who would have been 11 when it was published and whose father was a church minister.

London: T.Cadell & W. Davies, 1815. 18th edition 'with additions' . Black Leather. Good+. 12 Cms x 20 Cms. xi+287+(1)(More list), 1826 ink gift inscription fr. fly leaf, eraseable pencil acquisition note dated 1946 verso fr. free endpaper. Internally otehrwise clean, tight & unmarked but occasional browning/foxing to area round lower outer corner, early marbled endpapers, browning/ mottling to non-marbled sides of endpapers, sm. outer edge-nicks fr.fly & endpaper. There is some inner adhesion between end fly & endpaper- in fact it is unclear whether they may have originally been completely pasted together and only later become nearly separated as they are preceded by another blank leaf, the same is true of fr. endpaper and succeeding leaf. Gilte ruled black leather covers with gilt panelled sp. & gilt.dec.edges, cover leather is impressed with a fine chequerboard 'woven' pattern.All edges marbled. The bad news is that the top fr. joint has been damaged for c.6ms… Read More

London: Jarrolds, 1931. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Good (+)/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 287 pp. num.text ills throughout; prev.owner's sig. front endpaper, top edge of textblock dusty in places, otherwise internbally clean tight & unmarked; covers clean but spine dulled, joints slightly rubbed and feel a little shaken, occ. rubbing to edges, notably back fore-edge, but largely 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: Academic Press for Royal Anthropological Institute, 1980. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine-/VG-. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. ix+147; near pristine copy in clean unclipped jacket marred only by sl.surface rubbing to fr., and along top edge, sm.brown mark bottom back. Apparently scarce.

London: Picador Poetry, 2005. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 13.5 Cm x 20 Cm. unpag.prelims+47 (46/47 pagination actually missing)+3 blank ff.before endpaper; virtually as new copy of this postumously published collection. 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: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. 1st Edition . Brown Cloth. Good. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xxiv+350+74 (Statistical Tables of patients under treatment during 1875, by Francis H. Champneys & Henry T. Butlin)+(8)(index)+8 (pub.list), 6 ills. (1 col.plate) and 1 unf.chart. sl.brown spotting through to p.vii, Endpapers split along hinges, w. some sl.weakening. Covers undamaged but a little shelf-worn, w. occ. marks. 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: Macmillan, 1896. Repint of 1894 'corrected', 1st-1867 . Red gilt-printed cloth. VG+ for Age/No Jacket (none issued). 12 Cms x 17.5 Cms. 53 pp., black endpoapers; virtually pristine internally being clean, tight and quite unmarked; covers clean, bright and minimally worn but patchy pigment loss to spine, spine region and thin strips along most edges, a little more extensive to back, at first glance most of this looks liked sun-fading, Despite numerous reprints from 1867 onwards, with a 'New edition' in 1890, this is surprisingly scarce, and the 1894 edition 'with corrections' and its 1896 reprint seem even more so. This is the last edition I assume as Myers died in January 1901. Myers best known as co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research, author of 2-vol. 'Phantasms of the Living' and the posthumously compiled Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death'. This religious poem was his first book. Am curious that he corrected it as late as 1894… Read More

Fayard, 1997. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine/Fine. 15.5 Cms x 24 Cms. 636, 35 col.ills on 24 plates ex-pagination; near mint copy. Over 1.1 kg nett so allow for some increase to quoted postage.

New York : Little Leather Library Corporation. Soft cover. Good+/No Jacket (none issued). Dark limp simulated leather with gilt lettering in panel to front, gilt sp. titles and pub. logo centre back, unworn but dull. 92 pp. Prev. owner's name across top fr. end-paper, otherwise unmarked bar a triangular small water-stain across bottom gutter of end-paper-t.p. opening, very faint on next opening. Undated but c. 1910-1920. Uncommon in UK. 7.5 cm x 10 cm

London: Phoenix House, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Bound in red-cloth backed grey boards, Fine. x+24+48 plates (24 pp)+ pp.25-35; 1960 dated signature and place-name to centre front end-paper, fairly inoffensive, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked; unclipped jacket has slight outer edge, spine end and joint rubbing, otherwise clean and unmarked (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Apparently scarce in this condition. 20 cm x 25 cm

Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black cl. with gilt sp. lettering, virtually pristine. xvi + 176, 16 ills on 8 pp. ex-pagination; virtually pristine, tiny brown spot to top edge only fault I can see. Unclipped jacket has just a hint of rubbing to top edge and two small creases to ends of fr. wraparound. 16 cm x 24 cm

London: Headley Brothers, 1900. 1st thus. . Dark Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket (none Issued?). 12.5 Cm x 19 .00 Cm. f/piece with tissue guard (sepia Tuke portrait)+t.tp. ('S', 'T' & 'London' in red)+x+283+(1, publisher's notice of two further titles), 7 further plates ex-pagination all with tissue guards; front blank fly has 1909-dated presentation inscription to 'Friends' Library Tunbridge Wells' above their early stamp, incipient gutter-opening between this leaf and preceding endpaper, but no immediate problem, end gutters good, light partial tanning to endpapers, front fly and verso final leaf (pub.noice), occ. brown flecking/foxing elsewhere, notably to tissue guards, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean, minimally worn and bright for age but fairly large, but faint, round lib.label ghost towards bottom. An interesting text from several angles (based on a larger 2 vol.1860 collection for family use), touches on his… Read More

printed in Hertford (U.K.): British School at Rome, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1985. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Fine-/No Jacket (none Issued?). 19 Cms x 27 Cms. xxxiv+277+37 plates+unf.plan, 66 figs, map.p.xviii; pristine copy bar former owners neat sig.top fr.endpaper.

St. Albans: Sanders (St.Albans) Ltd, 'Nurserymen to H.M.the Queen', 1946. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 1st ed.1915, this appears to be a re-issue of 1940 5th ed. with some additional introductory material. The 'Queen' is presumably Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI. (18 unpaginated prelims)+258 (with red edges) +307 (with blue edges). The first block lists under species by variety common names-parentage-origin & date, the second by species by variety and sub-variety Latin names and common names (in two columns). internally clean, tight and unmarked (bar a little blue edge-pigment bleeding to rear end-paper fore-edge of no significance. Blue cloth covers clean but rather rubbed and tired, esp .spine. 18.5 cm x 25 cm

London : Free Association Books, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Covers virtually pristine. xv + 226 + colophon; erased sig. top fr. end-paper otherwise as new. First English comprehensive study of Frenczi's life and work. 15 cm x 22,5 cm

Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG-/Good-VG. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. unpag.prelims+634, 8 pp. photo ills ex-pagination; only internal fault is fairly extenisve pencil annotation and underlining to pp.592-612, the 'Essay on Sources', otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers, though prev.owner's small gilt label top front pastedown; sealed jacket unclipped and generally good but slight extremety and edge-rubbing, few small surface rubs, spine faded and back alooks rather dusty in places. 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 and Felling-on-Tyne: Walter Scott, 1905. 2nd Edition . Red Series cloth. Good-VG/No Jacket (none issued). 13.5 Cm x 18.5 Cm. xix+395+(22, pub.list); heraldic library donation plate of St.Thomas's Hospital to front pastedown (dated 1939), their fairly faint oval stamp to t.p and tiny 4-digit number top same, no other lib.marks, no spine label and otherwise internally clean, tight and u marked, textblock slightly cocked; covers clean and unworn bar hint of spine end rubbing. Issued in 'The Contemporary Science' series, date of 1st ed. not given but preface dated October 1889. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.