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London: Printed for Messrs. Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, et al, J. and E. Hodson, Cross-Street, Hatton-Garden, 1806. Eleventh Edition, Corrected, To which is prefixed, an account of the author. Complete in 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 461; 601, [10 pp "The Table"] pp. Half-title and frontispiece in each volume. Three-quarter brown calf with gilt ruling and decoration on spines; red morocco gilt-lettered title labels; over marbled paper covered boards; marbled endpapers. Darkening to spines; scraping & wear; occasional short pencil lines next to text; hinges cracked and with tape repair in Vol. I; front hinge cracked in Vol. II; a good set. "Although presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis (unique) work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, as Burton covers far more than the nomitive subject. Anatomy uses melancholy as a lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are… Read More

Lisbon: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), 2008. 1st. Paperback. Octavos; xxv, 320 pages and xxiii, 364 pages. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. Both copies in fine condition.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 271pp. Near fine (foxing to page edges) in about near fine dust jacket (age-toning to rear cover; minor wear to extremities; light spine fading; short closed tears). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. First Edition. 8vo. 208 pp. Bibliography. Illustrated softcover in fine condition. "For some years now, experimental methods from cognitive psychology have been incorporated within the research program of pragmatics. That this way of doing pragmatics has reached maturity is revealed by the fact that theoretical and methodological problems are now receiving increased attention within empirical pragmatics. The papers gathered in this volume cover some of the most important of those issues." - Introduction.

Orlando: Academic Press, 1984. 1st. Hardbound. Fine copy. Octavo, (xvi), 230pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to American master photographer, Wynn Bullock. 8vo. 306 pp. Bibliography; Index. Blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities). "Like Freud, Proust investigated the unconscious mind; but for literary rather than scientific purposes. In this book the distinguished psycholoanalyst, Milton L. Miller, brings Freudian theory to bear on Proustian art, with the most interesting and unexpected results...This is a pioneering study of the integrative process in aesthetic creation." - dustjacket flap.

San Francisco: Hoffman-Edwards, 1902. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 309pp. SIGNED in year of publication by Elizabeth Cramer (author's wife?). Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear to extremities; spine lightly faded else a near fine copy. "... intended to furnish effective suggestion to the student who is passing through the critical period of his intellectual life, while the mental powers are plastic but on the point of setting." - Preface. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.