Search Results: Authors starting with G from Douglas Books

Berkeley etc.: University of California Press, 1977. 4 th rep.of 1977 p/back ed. . p/back. Good+. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. lviii+240; large black 1984-dated owner's inscrip.verso front cover, bottom outer corner has waterstain mark from p.157 to end, covers clean and minimally worn to extremeties only but spine and adjacent region sun-faded. Inc. discussion of Heidegger and existentialism. 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 & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. f/piece (Mercier photo)+xiii+312, 9 further ills on 7 plates ex-pagination; bookseller's small label bottom front pastedown otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked, some ingrained dustiness to top edge, covers generally clean but some patches of light pigment loss, notably to back and spine dull. Remembered by psychologists for his early (1891) establishment of a laboratory at the University of Louvain, but this work understandably concentrates on his religious career and ideas and his heroic role during the Great War in stubbornly refusing to collaborate with the occupying Germans.

London: The Labour Party, 1962. 1st ed. . Pamphlet. VG. 12.8 cms x 20.6 cms. Texts of the speeches made by Gaitskell and Brown at the 1962 Labout Party Conference ' together with the policy statement acceptted by Cpnference'. 40 pp. Two small patches of staple rust to spine inside and out but these now removed and replaced.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: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. 1st UK edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Flawless red cloth binding with silver lettering. 192 pp.,slipped in is the original Blackwellsinvoice to an ' E.M.Rose' at the British Embassy in Bonn slipped plus Blackwell's slip; virtually pristine. Unclipped and virtually unworn jacket very clean at first glance but closer look reveals something like a very faint drip stain to bottom front spine region originating from a small brown mark, also some faint dark flecking down centre back largely obscured by dense text of puffs for 'The Affluent Society', will add protective sleeve when ordered. 15 cm x 22 cm

New York: International Universities Press, 1963. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. G-VG/Fair-good. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xvii+525, 1 unfolding table; prev.owner's sig. above an elongated brown patch on front endpaper, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked; covers clean and unworn but spine region and top edges faded; unclipped jacket badly edge-torn and chipped though clean, will try to repair some of this and will add protective sleeve when ordered, worth salvaging as it has relevant text. A variety of papers on different aspects of the title topic, including a 3-chapter section on native American tribes (Navaho, Ojibwa and Chippewa respectively). 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: Sage in association with The British Psychological Society, 1988. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine/Fine. 14 Cms x 22 .5 Cms. vii+223; virtually as new, will add protective sleeve to unclipped jacket when ordered. 14 chapters on various issues related to the use and reliability of the polygraph technique of lie detection, including case against, how to defeat the tests, legal aspects and a 'British trade union view' by Ken Jones. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Berkeley etc.: University of California Press, 1997. 1st Ed. thus . Glossy p/b. VG+. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xi+425, occ.text figs; near pristine but a few tiny white flecks to title panel on front cover, hint of a crease back lower outer corner and occ. minor spots of pigment loss etc. A very nice copy of this important edition by the eminent Las Vegas based Galileo scholar. 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/ Edinburgh: Hamilton, Adams & Co / Gall & Inglis, 1880. 2nd ed. (1st-1870) . Blind-stamped Red Cloth. VG for age/No Jacket (none issued). 14 Cms x 20 Cms. f/piece+xvi+9-372+(4, pub.notices) (2nd ed. Intro. inserted after original p.vii and Contents prelims expanded to include new Appendices), 7 further plates, coloured or tinted,10 woodcuts; 1897-dated sig. to front endpaper, which is heavily browned, slight gutter opening after this,rear endpaper heavily browned on outer side, brown spotting across top last page and facing inner side of endpaper and similarly to previous opening, end gutter opening before endpaper, slight browning to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; bevelled-edge covers have a few minor surface marks but boards are bright, spine slightly faded, wear amounts only to minimal rubbing to most extremeties only. Sounds worse for having faults detailed, end gutter problem only serious structural problem and this remediable. A rare and bizarre… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 1st reprint, 1st ed.-1978 . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. x+157; virtually mint, hint of rubbing to top edge of jacket to which I will add a protective sleeve when ordered. 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: H.M.S.O. for Natural Environment Research Council InstItute of Geological Sciences, 1968. 4th Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good -. Illustrated series cover clean but sp. region rubbed and creased across top back outer corner. xii + inf. map ++ 101 +(3, series list, map and pub. notice), 13 plates ex-pag. with more than one photo per plate, 21 text figs; clean, tight and unmarked but top outer corners v. sl. bumped. Radically revised from 1935 1st ed.16 cm x 24.5 cm

London: Macmillan, 1909. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. VG-. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xx+363; 1936-dated sig. of a 'John Evans' top front endpaper and label 'The John Evans Library. Presnted by The Rev. Emeritus Prof. John Evans B.A. who held the Chair of Church History in the College for over 40 years',(unclear which college this is, googling produces a John Evans Library at Florida Tech., but this was only founded c. 1960). Internally clean, tight and unmarked, no other lib.marks;cover clean, fairly bright and unworn but short white lib.number centre spine.

London: Macmillan, 1909. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. Good+. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xx+363; early oval lib.stamps to endpapers and pastedowns, also one lower margin, lib.number top fr. pastedown, no other lib.markings inside or out, outer sides of endpapers browned, partly unopened but a few eraseable pencil marginalia; covers clean and unworn bar sm.cloth nick bottom sp. and 2 thin surface scrapes lower back (one quite faint).

Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine-/Good-Very Good. Orange cloth with gilt sp. lettering partly on black panel, virtually pristine, sl, hint of sp. end rubbing of little consequence. vii + 104; one creased leaf with short, now closed, edge tear otherwise clean, tight and unmarked, top edge red. Top clipped ill. jacket clean but tanning to back edges, sp.ends slightly chipped, several sm. edge nicks now internally closed, remains attractive and will add protective sleeve when ordered. Scarce in UK and generally uncommon in U.S. with jacket. 14 cm x 20 cm

London. New York: J.M. Dent & Co., E.P.Dutton & Co, 1928. 2nd Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/No Jacket (none issued). Green cloth with gilt sp. lettering (Everyman's Library series binding), generally clean and unworn but spine faded and a rubbed at ends and back joint. Top edge dark-tinted. Illustrated end-papers. Decorated t.p. and facing page + xix + 261, 5 plates, 1 full spread col. ex-pagination, several un-numbered text figs; no obvious internal faults, undated but '1928' pencilled below series notice on p. ii. An essential classic for historians of Psychology and Victorian science, 1st pub. 1883 by Macmillan. This differs primarily in the omission of the chapters on 'Theocratic Intervention' and 'Objective Efficacy of Prayer' - the latter sceptical masterpiece of statistical satire was later re-issued by the Eugenics Society. 11 cm x 17.5 cm

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1st ed. . Glossy p/b. VG. 17.5 Cms x 25.5 Cms. xx+505, num. ills & figs etc. throughout; prev.owener's sig.verso fr.cover, v.faint trace of old pricing top fr.endpaper, otherwise clean tight & unmarked, narrow faint hint of edge-browning throughout; covers excellent, clean tight & unworn but again v.sl.edge-browning.

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1944. 1st Edition . Blue/green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 18 Cms x 26 Cms. f/p+xvi+211, num.text figs & ills. An excellent copy - internally unmarked, tight & clean, covers clean, undamaged and unworn, sp.perhaps v.sl. darkened. An important monograph emanating from the 'Pavlovian Laboratory' of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins University. 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: Rivingtons/ T. Harrison, 1878. 1st Edition . Red Cloth. Fair/good. 11 cms x 17.5 Cms. notice before t.p.+xiii+(2)+161+96(list), internally clean & tight with a few sm. marginal pencil markings, mostly pedantic corrections (e.g. proof-correcting the 't' in 'Leibnitz'), graphite endpapers good, there are 2 pp of errata & corrigenda between prelims & main text, the first smaller & apparently added late in the day. Red cloth covers generally clean but sp.ends poor - top end chipped and bottom rubbed, breaking cl., sm.additional chip halfway down fr. hinge (hence 'fair/good' rather than 'good+' rating). Apparently scarce. 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.

Billericay, Essex: Grey Walls Press, 1942. 1st ed. . Printed Card. VG+ for age and genre. 12 Cms x 18.5 Cms. pp.81-120 (pagination being continuous through issues annually); clean with jst a hont of edge-browning to covers plus spine-browning. An interesting issue containing original work by several eminent, or later so, poets inc. Keyes's translation of Rilke (Keyes died in April 1943), Alex Comfort (then 21, who also contributes a book review), Vernon Watkins, H.B. Mallalieu and Alan Rook. All issues of this war-time magazine (actually lasted until 1953) now 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: Archibald Constable, 1898. 1st ed. . Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket (assume none issued). 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xii+310+(2, pub.notices)+16 (1898 pub.list), uncut fore-edge; outer sides of endpapers browning, faint early sig. centre front endpaper, otehrwise internally clean, tight and unmarked; covers virtually unworn but both boards have slight convex bowing, spine a little sun-faded, main flaw is three small patches of tiny black spotting to front, two associated with very slight pigment lightening. Includes much coverage of contemporary philosophy and theology. A very acceptable copy of this learned exposition. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 1996. 6th rep. this 1984 ed., 1st US-1967 . Glossy p/b. Fine-. 13.5 Cm x 21.5 Cm. xvi+288; virtually pristine, just a few tiny brown flecksand a spot to top of textblock. An enduring social theory classic. Includes chapters on psychiatry, law and everyday social interactions, with relevance to social psychology as well as sociology.