Psychology from Berthoff Books

Sidran Press, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 134 pages. Essays by six doctors, including the editor, on different types of dissociative disorder. Trade paperback, corners of back cover a little curled, touch of foxing/dust soil to edges. Pages bright and unmarked.

Vintage Books, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 223 pages. Translated from Russian by Ellen de Kadt. First Vintage paperback edition of book published the year before. The account by brothers Zhores Medvedev, a biochemist, and historian Roy Medvedev of Zhores's involuntary hospitalization for his political activity, and Roy's efforts to obtain his release. Mass-market paperback, wear to corners, edges… Read more about this item

Pantheon Books, 1961. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 463 pages, plus 31 Roman-numeraled pages of front matter including preface and a list of the 309 illustrations (chiefly b&w art reproductions, a few in color), with index. Second, revised edition; first was in 1960; the content comes from the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 187 pages, with index, bibliography. The book discusses the social basis of cognition. 8vo, black paper over boards with beige quarter, copper gilt lettering on spine, scant shelf wear, foxing to edges. Names of former owners written on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff on… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1974. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 508 pages, plus 10 front-matter pages. Expanded and revised edition of book originally published 1954. With Preface to the New Version, Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Chapters on balance, shape, form, space, light, color, dynamics, etc. Illustrated with color and b&w plates, and cuts - art reproductions and… Read more about this item

Springer Publishing Company, Inc., 1969. Soft cover. Good. 127 pages, with bibliography divided in two parts: Freud's works, and other authors. Towards a "humanistic reinterpretation" of Freud, writes Silvan Tomkins in a Foreword. Trade paperback, matte wraps browned along spine and with a few spots, little shelf wear, a few pages accidentally dog-eared. Inscribed by the author on… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, 1969. Soft cover. Very Good. 556 pages, with index, preface, chronology of the life of William James, illustrated with b&w James family photos on four double-sided plates, facsimiles of two letters. Viking Compass edition of book first published 1967. Trade paperback, crease to front cover, light shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, page 365-6… Read more about this item

Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1995. Soft cover. Good. 286 pages, with index and bibliography. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, corner-creases to wraps, end papers browned, edges and page margins age-toned, pages unmarked.

George Braziller, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. 284 pages. Ruminations on "the place of imaginative literature in the world," the author says, interlaced with much introspection. 8vo, navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, edges of boards sunned, loose at rear hinge, spot of erosion in front pastedown at top, in unclipped DJ with edge wear, vertical crease the length… Read more about this item

SUNY Press, 2001. Soft cover. Good. 107 pages, with index and bibliography. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (author of The Mysterious Barricades: Language and Its Limits) throughout.

International Universities Press, 1950. Soft cover. Good. 252 pages. Trade paperback, creases to wraps, light shelf wear, rust-colored water-staining to back upper outer corner, extending on the edges (but not pages) about 30 p. deep from the back, light splotches of same staining on back wrap, binding solid and flexible. Pages unmarked and fairly bright.

Penguin Books, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 329 pages, with index and recommended reading. Reprint of book originally published 1957. A Pelican Original. Mass-market paperback, price sticker on front at top, reading creases and minor back cover bottom corner crease, spine rubbed, little other shelf wear, foxing to edges; edges, end papers and page margins age-toned; binding tight.… Read more about this item

W. W. Norton & Company, 1970. Soft cover. Good. 141 pages. Authorized translation by James Strachey. Norton Library edition of this collection first published 1963. ISBN lookup says 1989 for this printing, but it is really from 1970s. Trade paperback (5-1/8" x 7-3/4"), wraps soiled, foxing to edges and wraps. Bookstore price in pencil on ffep, pages unmarked.… Read more about this item