Search Results: Titles starting with M from Douglas Books

New York/ London: The Technology Press of M.I.T. and John Wiley/ Chapman & Hall, 1955. 1st Ed . Blue Cloth. VG-Fine/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xii+243; virtually pristine internally being clean, tight and unmarked, covers clean but just a hint of top spine fading and rubbing and very slight bumping to outer corners drops rating from Fine overall. An important early foray into the topic. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1973. 1st Edition . Fine-/No Jacket (boxed). 17.5 Cms x 24.5 Cms. col.f/piece+332, ill throughout, tear on 1st p. of index otherwise pristine. Simulated dark leather cloth in ditto box w. only v.minor bumping top box corners. 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

Menasha, Wis.: American Anthropological Association, 1940. 1st Edition . Printed Issue Wrappers. Good/very Good. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. Issued as Supplement No.55 to American Anthropologist Vol.42, No.4 Part 2. 81pp, num. figs. Faint blue square 'San Francisco Theological Seminary' stamps on fr.cover, t.p. & p.3, otherwise clean, bright, and undamaged aside from. v.sl. corner creasing. 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: Constable, 1916. 1st ed. . Blue wraps. VG. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. 55 pp., small slipped in newspaper review - I suspect from The Times; a few foxing spots to endpapers otherwise excellent condition, clean blue wraps unworn bar trace of sp.rubbing at bottom. Wraps folded round textblock. Also issued in hardback apparently. Fairly uncommon. The verses were all originally published in Punch.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 1st ed. . Hardcover. Fine (-)/Fine. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. Black cloth covers, fine. xiii++360, 33 text ills; 2005 sig.of the late Michael Neve (d. 2019) to front endpaper (Neve taught at Wellcome Institute for Histpry of Medicine and is mentioned in book's acknowledgements), otherwise pristine in similar unclipped jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered).

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2004. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. 319 pp. + colophon, 8 pp. block of col. ills, 32 pp. block of further ills, both blocks ex-pagination and first appearing in this edition. Illustrated jacket unclipped, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Pristine coppy. 13 digit ISBN verso jacket implies 2007 or later re-issue though no internal indication of this. 16 cm x 24 cm

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Rep. (1st English-1981, German-1969) . Glossy p/b. VG-Fine. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. vi+361; slight creasing back bottom outer corner, hint of slight curl bottom front outer corner, otherwise near pristine. Highly regarded study supplementing/countering Foucault's famous work on the topic. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Black cloth with gilt-lettered sp. xii + 241, 28 text ills. Unclipped jacket. A pristine copy of this acclaimed little book. 12.5 cm x 18 cm

London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. 1st ed. . Maroon cloth. Fine-/VG. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xv+260, 7 ills; small sig.top front endpapoer, faint suggestion of edge-browning to much of textblock otherwise near pristine; clipped jacket clean and unworn but sun-faded from pink to light blue to front edges and spine, a few trivial black slots top front joint, will add protective sleeve when ordered. The 28 pp. Introduction is followed by an anthology of 125 extracts on various aspects of madness, psychiatry and 'idiocy' (organised innto 9 sections) by many eminent 19th century figures such as Maudsley, Haslam, D.Hack Tuke, Cowles Prichard, Bucknill, Burrows and Alexander Morison (22 in all), pp.xiii-xv providing brief biiographical notes on each. Maugsley and Burrows are especially well represented. A handy compdium with a useful Introduction. Uncommon.Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside… Read More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Black cloth with gilt-lettered sp. xii + 241, 28 text ills. Unclipped jacket marred by small label removal to lower sp. which is more apparent to touch than sight. . A pristine copy of this acclaimed little book. 12.5 cm x 18 cm

New York: Philosophical Library, 1958. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG/G-VG. 14.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. unpag. prelims+555, 8 plates ex-pag.; clean, unmarked and minimally worn, only slight rubbing to bottom edge by bottom spine and hint of fading top spine corners; illustrated jacket, in protective wrapper when acquired, looks very good at first glance and is indeed clean, but on inspection there is sufficient edge rubbing and spine end chipping, along with clipping to top front wraparound to downgrade from a full VG rating. A thoroughly reductionist attack on religious belief in learning theory terms, which is uncommon in the Psychology of Religion genre. Uncommon. 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, 1944. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Red cloth series cover with black lettering and 'Thinker' logo bottom front corner, no obvious faults. Issued as No.100 in series. (2, series list)+(2, Foreword)+184, no obvious faults. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm.

New York: International Universities Press, 1956. 1st ed. . Grey Cloith. VG/Good (+). 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. x+236; only flaw is browning to endpapers off-set from jacket wraparound plus some additonal faint brown patches across endpaper-pastedown opening, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers; unclipped jacket a lsomewhat dust-marked etc in places but not heavily, numerous edges chips & nicks including to spine ends, will repair nicks and add protective sleeve when ordered. An important early post-war analysis and study of the Holocaust and the re-emergence of antisemitism in modern Germany. 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: Sigma Books Limited Introductions to Science, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light green cloth, gilt. sp. lettering (faded), a few minor surface spots otherwise clean and unworn. x + 216, 8 plates ex-pagination, 56 text figs.; illustrated ex-lin plate of D. Gibson to fr. pastedwon and his sig. top fr. end-paper, (this is Derek Gair Gibson, eminent pioneering cardiologist 1935-2021), otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Issued as No.12 in the series. 13 cm x 19 cm

London: Early English Text Society/ Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1925. Reprint (1st this ed.1908, orig.c.1531) . Printed Issue Wrappers. Good+. 14.5 Cm x 22.5 Cm. f/p (orig.t.p.)+cxcviii+100+8 (2pp note on the Society+full pub. list); Internally excellent, though having uncut edges some pp. sl.dusty/rubbed along outer edge, prev.owner's sig. verso fr.cover, faint roughened patch top half-title due to pencil erasure.Light lavender printed wraps a little marked and scuffed along edges, sm.chip bottom sp., edges sun-faded. Issued as No.XCVIII in the Early English text Society's 'Extra Series'. 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 etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1988. 1st reptint (1st-1987) . Grey Cloth. Fine-/Fine. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xii+271, 27 text figs (photos), 4 maps; 1989-dated sig. top front endpaper otherwise fine in fine unclipped jacket (will add protective sleeve when ordered).

London: Macmillan for the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1903. 1st ed. . Blue Gilt-Lettered Cloth. Good-VG/No Jacket. 11.5 Cms x 17.5 Cms. f/piece+xiv+178, 5 further ill.plates ex-pagination; small eraseable pencil sig. to front endpaper, several corners creased, have spotted 2 or 3 pencilled marginalia, erased one of them (which was of little interest) but traces remain, small pencilled list of Kings Cross train times top back pastedown; covers clean bar a small (1 cm x 2.5 cm) dark stain lower front, slight routine rubbing to extremeties. Issued as No.1 in the 'Jewish Worthies' series. Despite a number of minor faults this remains a quite acceptable copy. 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: Epworth Press, 1947. 1st ed. (1892-1897) . Blue Cloth. VG-/Good-VG. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. x+149; endpapers browning to inner edges offset from wrapaounds, sm.patch of fading bottom sp., small sig.fr.endpaper, otherwise clean, tight & unworn; jacket clean and unclipped but edge-rubbing and short tear along fr.edge. Religious in tone as one would expect from the Methodist Epworth Press,

New York etc.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. VG/VG-. 14.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. xv+(1, epigraph quote from Kurt Lewin)+206; sm.faint sig.top fr. free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean bright unworn covers; unclipped jacket clean bar a bluish smudge along top back joint & v.sl.dustiness to back, v.sl.rubbing along top edge; brown spotting along top edge of textblock. Identifying themselves with a lineage from William James via Adler to Kurt Lewin these guys seem to hate everyone else with a passion, humanistic psychologists as well as behaviourists. They object to lack of historical contextualization in history of Psychology, and see humanistic Psychology as entirely the product of contemporary social conditions, lacking any scientific character at all. An interesting radical critique, itself now of historical interest. Scarce outside North America.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 1st ed. . White printed boards. VG+/No Jacket (none issued). 17.5 Cms x 25 Cms. unpag.prelims+364+5 blanks leaves, num.text figs, tables etc.; my own sm. removable ownership label top fr.pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight & unworn in clean unworn printedglossy boards, sl. sun-browning to sp.& top back edge. An important collection. Printed in unjustified r.margin photo-litho typescript.