Search Results: Authors starting with U from Douglas Books

Tokyo: Universal Academic Press, 1994. 1st ed. . Illustrated glossy boards. Fine. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xiv+340, num.text figs etc. inc.photos; pristine copy. Issued as Frontiers Science Series No.10. Concerns the findings obtained by the Yohkoh satellite.

London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1932. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Red blind-stamped cloth with gilt sp. lettering, clean but sp. faded with end-rubbing, outer corners also mildly rubbed. half-title with pub. notices to verso + xv + 434, 53 text figs (one unfolding) plus numerous tables (one unfolding); light tanning to outer sides of end-papers otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. This is 10th edition, 1st - 1911. A major contribution the statistical theory. 14 cm x 19 cm

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1885. 4th English ed. from 4 German ed. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. Vol.I. 'History of the Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophy': xiii+487, all edges red-tinted; Vol.II ''History of Modern Philosophy': vi+561, all edges red-tinted; only significant fault is brown flecking to endpapers of both vols, becoming more extensive light tanning to half-titles (esp.Vol.2), occ. brown spotting elsewhere, mostly to foreedge of Vol.11, otherwise both vols internally clean, tight and unmarked in clean, virtually unworn, covers (faintest hints of spine end rubbing and the odd tiny surface fleck). Originally issued by Hodder and Stoughton in 1872 with both U.S. and British editions being issued subsequently, though no changes to text (1872 pagination identical to this). Yale's Noah Porter added and Appendix of over 100 pp. 'On English and American Philosophy' to Vol.11, followed by Vincent Botta (of University of Turin) over 60 pp.… Read More

Munich: Bruckmann, 1913. 1st Edition? . Brown Cloth-backed Boards. Good-VG. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. In Fraktur font, am baffled by 'Aufsake' but that's what it looks like though is not in my dictionary. 298 pp., ex-Royal College of Surgeons lib. with their round stamp+withdrawal overstamp on t.p., top contents (Inhaltsverzeichnis) p. and centre t.p.to part one,C.S.Sherrington's sig.top half-title, internally clean, tight and otherwise unmarked, endpapers clean with uncracked gutters, a few trivial traces of erased pencilled price or lib.markings to fr.; brown gilt-lettered boards with black cloth sp., clean and a virtually unworn but faint label ghost below title to fr. and label ghost top sp.affecting author's name. Bound-in cloth place-marker. Somewhat disturbingly I see the book is dedicated to Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Early work by this influential proto-ethologist all of whose pre-Great War texts appear to be very scarce. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700… Read More

Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional De Buenos Aires, 1913. 1st Edition . Fair. 16.5 Cms x 24 Cms. half title+t.p.+89+7 (graphs), several text figs. inc. few sm. photos. Disbound, fairly tight, although sp.beginning to go. Internally clean, & unmarked. 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.

Bandoeng (Jave/Indonesia): A.C. Nix, 1949. 1st Edition . Printed Card. Good. 18 Cms x 27 Cms. 240pp, num. technical diagrammatic plates, several unf.+text diagrams, internally tight & clean, unmarked bar some light pencilled marginalia on first text page, incipient edge-browning, not serious; wrappers clean but worn/ rubbed at extremeties & some loss at sp.ends exposing gatherings, esp.bottom fr. Issued as: Koninklijk Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen Verhandelingen deel LXXVIII. Apparently scarce, perhaps understandably being published late in the period of Dutch rule and so recondite in character.

New York etc.: John Wiley, 1966. 1st ed. . p/back. G-VG. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. xii+393, numerous ills. & figs numbered by chapter; 1967-dated sig.verso front cover, occ.eraseable light pencil marginal marking & marginalia, covers laminated by prev.owner generally clean but a few marks to back and bottom front outer corner slightly creased. Remains a useful and wide-ranging collection of papers. 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: Frederick Muller, 1951. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. VG-/G-VG. 12 Cms x 19 Cms. 108+(2, recommended reading); internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers bright and unworn butboth bottom outer corner sections badly affected by pigment loss presumably due to water and front has a fainter panel of loss above this; unclipped jacket, sealed in protective sleeve as acquired, clean butsmall chips top spine and front bottom outer corner. A scarce and interesting work. 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: Methuen, 1966. 2nd Ed. (1st-1961) . Dark Maroon Cloth. Fine/VG-. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece+331; virtually pristine, one very tiny spot of fading to bottom front spine where exposed by small jacket nick; unclipped jacket generally clean but a fairly faint brownish smudge lower front, slight rubbing to top edge, inc.spine, small nick bottom spine (will add protective sleeve when ordered).

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Dark brown blind-stamped cl. with gilt sp. lettering and Sydenham logo centre front; a trifle dull with hint of sp. end rubbing but no significant faults. All edges orange. Series half-title giving vol. number as 143. + 613, 5 engr. figs on 2 plates; a few tanning spots to verso fr. end-paper, half-title and recto rear end-paper but fewer than usual for books in this series. Topics inc. herpes, dermatitis, itching, pellagra, psoriasis and ;drug eruptions'. 14,5 cm x 22 cm

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. f/piece (portrait of Unbegaun)+xi+341; virtually pristine in similar unclipped sealed jacket. Papers variously in French (the majority), German, Russian and English. all originally journal papers they had been 'assembled for the press by R.Auty and A.E.Pennington'.

London: Longmans 'Inner Life Series'. Hardcover. VG(-)/No Jacket (assume none issued). Glossy boards, first 2 appear to be laminated by publisher and this lifting on second title with little obvious effect on appearance, which also has slight front joint rubbing, otherwise all clean and virtually unworn.The School of Charity etc (4th imp. this ed., 1st-1954): red bordered t.p. + xvi + 109 + 77, small printed price tipped into fr.gutter: 3 lines underlined on p.3 otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. The Fruits of the Spirit etc. (4th impression this ed. 1st-1956), red-bordered t.p. + viii + 72 + 107 (actually starts p.7 as original 1944 t.p. of separately published book omitted); some underlining and marginal lining to 3rd title, affecting 5 pp. 3 having marginal lines only, short red ballpoint note top rear pastedown otherwise clean, tight and unmarked; Mount of Purification (2nd impression, 1st-1960): plain t.p. + vi + 333, small printed price tipped in to fr. gutter; 2 leaves creased at… Read More

Paris: UNESCO, World Meteorological Organization, International Assoc. Hydrological Sciences, 1974. 1st Edition . illust.laminated card. Very Good. 21 Cms x 27 Cms. 123 pp. text in English, French, Spanish, Russian. 8 papers delivered at the'Tercentenary of Scientific Hydrology' celebration in Paris 9-12 Sept. 1974. Internally excellent: clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean with minimal wear - v.sl.edge rubbing and top back corner creased. Uncommon. 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.

Cambridge Mass.: John Wilson and Son, 1887. 1st Edition . Red Cloth. Good+. 18 Cms x 26 Cms. f/piece (facs.of earliest record of the college, with tissue-guard)+379, tinted double pp. facs. pof 1650 charter after contents, 2 plates of college in 1821 w.tissues guards. Ex-University of London library with their attractive heraldic plate fr. pastwown (stamped 'withdrawn'), sm.early round stamps on back (but technically recto) of f/piece, verso t.p., backs of 2nd facs. & end text - these quite inoffensive; loan sheet & card pocket remnants on rear endpaper & pastedown, no sp.number or other external lib.marks. Clean, tight & otherwise unmarked internally. Covers clean but edge darkening and sl.sp.fading, bottom corners bumped, top corners rubbed, a few v.sm.nicks top sp. This includes numerous speeches/orations by eminent figures such as Weir Mitchell, James Russell Lowell, Grover Cleveland (U.S.President), Lyon Playfair, James Angell and a list of all who attended the ceremony.… Read More

Portland (Maine): William Hyde, 1837. 2nd ed. (1st-1831) . Blind-stamped brown Cloth. VG for age. 14.5 Cm x 23.5 cm. Vol.1: 461 pp.; tanning to front endpapers, pastedown and otherblank end leaves, but while widespread this is not too intense, t.p.margins also slightly affected, top outer corner of front endpaper torn off and an extremely faint early signature centre of same, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, end-gutters good, attractive covers have a blind-stamped floral design, black gilt-lettered spine label, slight splitting to tops of joints but these not serious and a cross-tear below top has been securely closed; Vol.2.: 468 pp. (last one miss-set as 648), internally virtually identical to Vol.1, inc.tiny sig. (a tad clearer); covers again generally good but 2 cm. chip across top spine and very thin incipient split to lower front joint, though this appears quite secure, both Vols covers are surprisingly clean for age but spines and edges all somewhat faded. Upham's most… Read More

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1905. 2nd Revised ed. (1st-1902) . Dark Blue Cloth. VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xliii+240; small early purprle stamp of 'Nairn Literary Institute' to frotn endpaper, small purple stamp 'Presented by the McQuaker Trustees, Essex Hall, London' lower t.p., these both so small, neat and inoffensive, as well as interesting, that I cannot consider them faults, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked bar slight brown flecking in a few places, mostly to last page and top rear endpapers; covers clean and virtually unworn with the early label of the 'Nairn Literary Institute Library/ 'Fourteen Days allowed for Reading this Book' to lower back, which again I would find it hard to object to. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1928. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG(+)/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. xi+279; early prev.owner's name stamp top front pastedown, faint browning to endpapers, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers. An extremely useful overview of the early Psychology of Religion school dealing with Starbuck, Coe, James, Ames, Leuba, Stratton and Pratt, with discussion of research methods and theoretical approaches. Actually an excellent contemporary starting point for any researcher entering this field, though does not address the psychoanalytic approaches. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1945. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Fine-/VG-. 14.5 Cm x 20.5 Cm. vi+238; apart from faint dustiness and a few tiny brown flecks to top edge this is virtually pristine in bright unworn covers and internally unmarked; unclipped jacket generally clean but spine darkened, ends rubbed and two, now closed, tears to same (will apply protective sleeve when ordered). Includes much discussion of Barthes' position and a short chapter on Psychology. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

New York etc.: Academic Press, 1978. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Fine/Fine-. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xv+236, some diagrams numbered by chapter; prev.owner's small gilt label top front pastedown otherwise virtually pristine,unclipped jacket marred ony by hints of rubbing to some edges & extremities, top spine slightly rubbed, two very small rubbing patches to front cover, still Fine- despite all this, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Tackles topics such as physiology, achievement motivation, arousal, psychosomatics. Apparently scarce in good condition. 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: Nisbet & Co., 1929. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Good+ for Age/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 160 pp. (to xi in Roman); ex. Wellcome via National Institute of Industrial Psychology (N.I.I.P.) Charles Myers Library with latter's plate to front pastedown+later bar-code, red N.I.I.P. stamp to front endpaper+ October 1929 dated author's gift inscription, red N.I.I.P. stamp recurs on t.p, and occ.elsewhere in text, round Wellcome Institute Library stamp verso t.p. & end text, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; coversa little rubbed top spine and corners, some pale surface marks to back and few minor marks to front with hints of fading or pigment loss to lower fore-edges , lib.label ghost bottom spine. A quite acceptablereference/working copy of this scarce manifesto for the need for 'scientific management'. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.