Psychology

London: The Danube Edition - Pan Books Ltd., 1970. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. SYNOPSIS: The Act of Creation is a brilliant and important analysis by a famous author of the artistic and scientific faculties of man, including humour. In this major study Arthur Koestler advances the theory that all creative activities - the conscious and unconscious processes underlying artistic originality, scientific discovery, and comic inspiration - have a basic pattern in common, which he attempts to define. He calls it "bisociative" thinking - a word he coined to distinguish the various routines of associative thinking from the creative leap which connects… Read More

Leipzic / Vienna: Hugo Heller & Cie, 1913 pp [120] numbered 525 - 636, I - VIII, Textblock sound with a little browning, wrapper has moderate sunning towards the margins with significant fraying (some loss] to spine Scans available

Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1932. Livre. Bon. plaquette agrafée. Edition originale. In-8. Paris, Denoël et Steele, 1932. Coll. "bibliothèque psychanalytique". 24 x 16 cm, in-8, 19 pp., plaquette agrafée sous couverture rouge imprimée. Edition originale peu commune de ce tiré à part du tome IV de la "Revue Française de Psychanalyse". Bon exemplaire (petit accroc à la couverture)..

Mason, Van Wyck. The Rio Casino Intrigue, A Major North Intrigue Novel. Reynal & Hitchcock First Edition, 1941. MYSTERY. Used. Good/Good rare unclipped dust jacket Original $2.00 item price appears on the back flap. now protected in a mylar wrap.

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

Ten Little Indians Dodd, Mead Greenway Edition, Copyright 1967 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. States: First published in the Greenway Edition in the United States 1978. Number line starts with 2. Used. VERY GOOD/ VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. ffp $8.95 A nice, crisp copy in a mylar wrap. DJ spine states 24. Our DJ spine is slightly sunned. "Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None and (offensive language alert) Ten Little N*ggers, is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November, 1939 as Ten Little N-ggers, after the children's counting and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element."

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Good in Good dust jacket; Spine cocked, front hinge cracked, jacket . lightly worn.. 1972. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0226949990 . xv, 400pp. Illustrations. Index. Navy cloth binding. A history of the art of memory from antiquity through the 20th century, including its cultural and literary impacts. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Rare copy on this seminal work on the assessment of the methodoldy of lie detecting and, at the time, of the novel use of lie detection instruments. The book is in 'like new' condition, including all pages and illustration, as well as the six fold outs. XX + 453 pages.

The book will be priority mailed for domestic sale.

Steig, William The Lonely Ones. Copyright 1942, First Edition. Duell Sloane and Pearce, NY. USED. VG/VG Original dust jacket. QUITE RARE THUS. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Cartoons by New Yorker Magazine contributor and author and illustrator of SHREK!, WILLIAM STEIG. 102 pages, 5 3/8 X 7 ¾.

NY: Hermitage House, 1950. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Hermitage House, 1950, sixth printing. 8vo., xxvii+452pp. Gray cloth with green blocked titles. Foxing-like stains in the lower margins of six sheets, small spots on front edge of page block, otherwise very good, clean, tight, unmarked, in very good minus mylar encased dust jacket with wear along the edges and folds. . Hard. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 8vo.

St. Louis, MO: David V. Bush, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 428pp; Maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to front, green titling to spine, boards square & clean with slight wear to corners of boards, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG condition. Scarce, quaint, antique guide to reading character by analyzing physical characteristics such as head shape, body type, hair color and eye color, in part to help employers find good employees and to assist individuals in their search for a spouse. The prolific self-help, poetry, sexology and New Thought author David Van Bush (1882-1959) and his mysterious co-author W. Waugh identified five human types: Alimentive, Thoracic, Muscular, Osseous and Cerebral. At various points, Bush employed H.P. Lovecraft to revise many of his publications. Illustrated with diagrams & photos.

Carrie Fisher. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Postcards from the Edge. 1987 Simon and Schuster. NY. EXLIB. Stated 1st Printing. Number line starts with 1. VG CONDITION/ VG Unclipped original dust jacket protected in a mylar wrap. 223 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel by American actress Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. It was later adapted by Fisher herself into a motion picture of the same name, which was directed by Mike Nichols and released by Columbia Pictures in 1990."

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/None. 273pp; No DJ, Ex-Library (Private, only markings are rubber stamps to front endpaper & last test page, with DJ flaps glued to front endpaper), light dampstain to bottom of front board & spine, orange cloth boards with titling to front & spine, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Scarce, vintage account by a doctor who spent six years on the medical staff of large insane asylum in the southern United States. "Fascinating histories, horrible episodes and hilarious anecdotes run through the book." A New York Times review at the time notes, "There is much about insanity viewed from the medical angle in Dr. Small's book. One can learn here about schizoids, psychoneurotics, paranoiacs and all the other important classifications of lunatics... all of it written in a plain, non-technical style with histories of illustrative cases... Read Dr. Small's book is a good deal like hovering invisibly above and in and out of the… Read More

Henri Charriere. Papillon. 1970 William Morrow First U.S. Edition. USED. VG/G Unclipped $8.95 Dust jacket. "An international sensation – the #1 bestseller in France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries" 434 pages 6 ½ X 9 3/8. Former owner signature on title page.

Carrie Fisher. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Postcards from the Edge. 1987 Simon and Schuster. NY. EXLIB. Stated 1st Printing. Number line starts with 1. VG CONDITION/ VG Unclipped original dust jacket protected in a mylar wrap. Very nice appearing barely read. 223 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel by American actress Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. It was later adapted by Fisher herself into a motion picture of the same name, which was directed by Mike Nichols and released by Columbia Pictures in 1990."